This Week in Science

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Science 15 August 1997: 879.
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Editorial:
Science and "One Country, Two Systems"

John Polanyi
Science 15 August 1997: 881.
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News and Comment

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Science and God: A Warming Trend?

Gregg Easterbrook
Science 15 August 1997: 890-893.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Of Lasers and Prayer

Gregg Easterbrook
Science 15 August 1997: 891.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Of Genes and Meaninglessness

Gregg Easterbrook
Science 15 August 1997: 892.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Panel Calls Falsification in German Case 'Unprecedented'

Robert Koenig
Science 15 August 1997: 894.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
Cut the Communications Fog, Say Physicists and Editors

James Glanz
Science 15 August 1997: 895-896.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
BLM Accused of Neglecting Clovis Sites

Mark Muro
Science 15 August 1997: 896.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

Science 15 August 1997: 903.
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Research News

NEUROSCIENCE:
Worm Longevity Gene Cloned

Wade Roush
Science 15 August 1997: 897-898.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Quantum Cells Make a Bid To Outshrink Transistors

James Glanz
Science 15 August 1997: 898-899.
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PHYSICS:
Microwaves Steal the Blush From Ruby

Charles Seife
Science 15 August 1997: 899-900.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Schizophrenia Clues From Monkeys

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 15 August 1997: 900.
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CONSERVATION:
Droppings Give the Lowdown On Stress in the Spotted Owl

David A. Malakoff
Science 15 August 1997: 901.
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PHYSICS:
Curve Throws X-rays for a Loop

Charles Seife
Science 15 August 1997: 902.
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GENOMICS:
Drug Firms Back Move to Link Databases

Nigel Williams
Science 15 August 1997: 902.
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Letters

All ears

Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 The Carbon Crop

Daniel H. Janzen
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 Global Information on Tropical Forests

Sandra Brown and Raymond L. Czaplewski
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 Reef Check: Complete Agreement

Thomas J. Goreau and Gregor Hodgson
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 Corn Genome Initiative

Mark E. Sorrells;, Olin D. Anderson, P. Stephen Baenziger, R. James Cook, Perry B. Cregan, Jorge Dubcovsky, Jan Dvorak, Bikram S. Gill, Gary E. Hart, Patrick M. Hayes, Eliot M. Herman, Andris Kleinhofs, Roland F. Line, Calvin O. Qualset, Patrick E. McGuire;, Michael W. Bevan;, and Jon Cohen;
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 When Doors Are Closed at the NRC

Jacqueline A. MacDonald
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 Telomerase Activity of Reverse Transcriptase

Miria Ricchetti and Henri Buc
Science 15 August 1997: 883-887.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

Galaxies Nearby

Sidney van den Bergh
Science 15 August 1997: 906.
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Evolutionary Basics

John H. Gillespie
Science 15 August 1997: 906-907.
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Browsings

Science 15 August 1997: 907.
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Perspectives

PALEOCEANOGRAPHY:
Isotopic Tracers of Past Ocean Circulation: Turning Lead to Gold

Francis Albarède
Science 15 August 1997: 908-909.
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HIGH-PRESSURE PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Shocking Matter to Extreme Conditions

Yogendra M. Gupta and Surinder M. Sharma
Science 15 August 1997: 909-910.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
The Chameleon Within: Improving Antigen Delivery

James L. Madara
Science 15 August 1997: 910-911.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Telomerase and Retrotransposons: Which Came First?

Thomas H. Eickbush
Science 15 August 1997: 911-912.
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Tech.Sight

 FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS: Expression Cloning in the Test Tube

Randall W. King, Kevin D. Lustig, Todd P. Stukenberg, Thomas J. McGarry, and Marc W. Kirschner
Science 15 August 1997: 973-974.
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 SIGHTINGS: Laser-Controlled Cells

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 August 1997: 975.
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 SIGHTING: Selecting the Needle

Robert Sikorski and Richard Peters
Science 15 August 1997: 975.
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 NETTIPS: Smarter Searching

Richard Peters and Robert Sikorski
Science 15 August 1997: 976-977.
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 SITE FINDER: Search Engines

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 Products

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Research Articles

Climate and Ocean Dynamics and the Lead Isotopic Records in Pacific Ferromanganese Crusts

John N. Christensen, Alex N. Halliday, Linda V. Godfrey, James R. Hein, and David K. Rea
Science 15 August 1997: 913-918.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls
Science 15 August 1997: 918-924.
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Reports

Interaction Between the ENSO and the Asian Monsoon in a Coral Record of Tropical Climate

C. D. Charles, D. E. Hunter, and Richard G. Fairbanks
Science 15 August 1997: 925-928.
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Realization of a Functional Cell for Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

A. O. Orlov, I. Amlani, G. H. Bernstein, C. S. Lent, and G. L. Snider
Science 15 August 1997: 928-930.
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Structure, Bonding, and Geochemistry of Xenon at High Pressures

Wendel A. Caldwell, Jeffrey H. Nguyen, Bernd G. Pfrommer, Francesco Mauri, Steven G. Louie, and Raymond Jeanloz
Science 15 August 1997: 930-933.
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The World's Smallest Gas Cylinders?

G. E. Gadd, M. Blackford, S. Moricca, N. Webb, P. J. Evans, A. M. Smith, G. Jacobsen, S. Leung, A. Day, and Q. Hua
Science 15 August 1997: 933-936.
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Asymmetric Catalysis with Water: Efficient Kinetic Resolution of Terminal Epoxides by Means of Catalytic Hydrolysis

Makoto Tokunaga, Jay F. Larrow, Fumitoshi Kakiuchi, and Eric N. Jacobsen
Science 15 August 1997: 936-938.
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Protein Transport by Purified Yeast Sec Complex and Kar2p Without Membranes

Kent E. S. Matlack, Kathrin Plath, Benjamin Misselwitz, and Tom A. Rapoport
Science 15 August 1997: 938-941.
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daf-2, an Insulin Receptor-Like Gene That Regulates Longevity and Diapause in Caenorhabditis elegans

Koutarou D. Kimura, Heidi A. Tissenbaum, Yanxia Liu, and Gary Ruvkun
Science 15 August 1997: 942-946.
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Synergistic Predation, Density Dependence, and Population Regulation in Marine Fish

Mark A. Hixon and Mark H. Carr
Science 15 August 1997: 946-949.
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Conversion by Peyer's Patch Lymphocytes of Human Enterocytes into M Cells that Transport Bacteria

Sophie Kernéis, Anna Bogdanova, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl, and Eric Pringault
Science 15 August 1997: 949-952.
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Enduring Cognitive Deficits and Cortical Dopamine Dysfunction in Monkeys After Long-Term Administration of Phencyclidine

J. David Jentsch, D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., John D. Elsworth, Jane R. Taylor, Kenneth D. Youngren, and Robert H. Roth
Science 15 August 1997: 953-955.
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Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Homologs from Fission Yeast and Human

Toru M. Nakamura, Gregg B. Morin, Karen B. Chapman, Scott L. Weinrich, William H. Andrews, Joachim Lingner, Calvin B. Harley, and Thomas R. Cech
Science 15 August 1997: 955-959.
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Contrasting Genetic Influence of CCR2 and CCR5 Variants on HIV-1 Infection and Disease Progression

Michael W. Smith, Michael Dean, Mary Carrington, Cheryl Winkler, Gavin A. Huttley, Deborah A. Lomb, James J. Goedert, Thomas R. O'Brien, Lisa P. Jacobson, Richard Kaslow, Susan Buchbinder, Eric Vittinghoff, David Vlahov, Keith Hoots, Margaret W. Hilgartner, Hemophilia Growth and Development Study (HGDS), Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS), Multicenter Hemophilia Cohort Study (MHCS), San Francisco City Cohort (SFCC), ALIVE Study, and Stephen J. O'Brien
Science 15 August 1997: 959-965.
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AIB1, a Steroid Receptor Coactivator Amplified in Breast and Ovarian Cancer

Sarah L. Anzick, Juha Kononen, Robert L. Walker, David O. Azorsa, Minna M. Tanner, Xin-Yuan Guan, Guido Sauter, Olli-P. Kallioniemi, Jeffrey M. Trent, and Paul S. Meltzer
Science 15 August 1997: 965-968.
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Pain Affect Encoded in Human Anterior Cingulate But Not Somatosensory Cortex

Pierre Rainville, Gary H. Duncan, Donald D. Price, Benoît Carrier, and M. Catherine Bushnell
Science 15 August 1997: 968-971.
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