This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 22 August 1997: 1013.
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Editorial:
Of Timeliness and Timelessness

Ellis Rubinstein
Science 22 August 1997: 1019.
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News

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
A Bitter Battle Over Insulin Gene

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 August 1997: 1028-1030.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Courts Take a Narrow View of UC's Claims

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 August 1997: 1029.
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MATHEMATICS TEACHING:
Project NExT Helps New Ph.D.s In the Classroom--and Beyond

Dana Mackenzie
Science 22 August 1997: 1031-1032.
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MATHEMATICS TEACHING:
New Physics Profs Get a Helping Hand, Too

Dana Mackenzie
Science 22 August 1997: 1031.
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PHYSICS:
Snare for Supernova Neutrinos

James Glanz
Science 22 August 1997: 1032-1033.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Rising Damp From Small Comets?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 August 1997: 1033.
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MEETING BRIEFS:
Primordial Soup Researchers Gather at Watering Hole

Ricki Lewis
Science 22 August 1997: 1034-1035.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Novel Campaign to Test Live HIV Vaccine

Jon Cohen
Science 22 August 1997: 1035.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
DNA Ventures into the World Of Designer Materials

Robert F. Service
Science 22 August 1997: 1036-1037.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
NGF Signals Ride a Trolley to Nucleus

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 August 1997: 1037.
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ScienceScope

Science 22 August 1997: 1027.
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Random Samples

Science 22 August 1997: 1045.
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Special News Report

BOTANY:
Reseeding the Green Revolution

Charles Mann
Science 22 August 1997: 1038-1043.
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BOTANY:
Saving Sorghum by Foiling the Wicked Witchweed

Charles Mann
Science 22 August 1997: 1040.
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BOTANY:
Cashing in on Seed Banks' Novel Genes

Charles Mann
Science 22 August 1997: 1042.
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Letters

Convincing tests

Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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 NIF: "Harsh Light" or "Illumination"?

David H. Crandall
Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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 Neandertal Genetics

Alan Cooper, Hendrik N. Poinar, Svante Pääbo, J. Radovi, A. Debénath, Miguel Caparros, Cecilio Barroso-Ruiz, Jaume Bertranpetit, Christina Nielsen-Marsh, Robert E. M. Hedges, Bryan Sykes;, and G. A. Clark;
Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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 Mouse Engineering

Stephen O'Gorman and Geoffrey M. Wahl
Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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 No Such Correspondence

B. R. T. Simoneit and Ronald A. Hites
Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 22 August 1997: 1021-1025.
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Books et al.

A Developmental Question

Robert Tompkins
Science 22 August 1997: 1056.
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Aquatic Nonconformists

Warren W. Burggren
Science 22 August 1997: 1056-1057.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Fear No Weevil?

Donald R. Strong
Science 22 August 1997: 1058-1059.
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POLYMER LUMINESCENCE:
Those Blinking Single Molecules

W. E. Moerner
Science 22 August 1997: 1059-1060.
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COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY:
Biological Information Processing: Bits of Progress

Nicholas C. Spitzer and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Science 22 August 1997: 1060-1061.
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Tech.Sight

 Tech.Sight: Products

Science 22 August 1997: 1125-1127.

Articles

Seed Banks and Molecular Maps: Unlocking Genetic Potential from the Wild

Steven D. Tanksley and Susan R. McCouch
Science 22 August 1997: 1063-1066.
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Research Article

Incommensurate Spin Fluctuations in High-Transition Temperature Superconductors

B. O. Wells, Y. S. Lee, M. A. Kastner, R. J. Christianson, R. J. Birgeneau, K. Yamada, Y. Endoh, and G. Shirane
Science 22 August 1997: 1067-1071.
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Reports

Sulfur and Hydrogen Isotope Anomalies in Meteorite Sulfonic Acids

George W. Cooper, Mark H. Thiemens, Teresa L. Jackson, and Sherwood Chang
Science 22 August 1997: 1072-1074.
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Discrete Intensity Jumps and Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer in the Spectroscopy of Single Conjugated Polymer Molecules

David A. Vanden Bout, Wai-Tak Yip, Dehong Hu, Dian-Kui Fu, Timothy M. Swager, and Paul F. Barbara
Science 22 August 1997: 1074-1077.
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Selective Colorimetric Detection of Polynucleotides Based on the Distance-Dependent Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles

Robert Elghanian, James J. Storhoff, Robert C. Mucic, Robert L. Letsinger, and Chad A. Mirkin
Science 22 August 1997: 1078-1081.
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Superconductivity up to 126 Kelvin in Interstitially Doped Ba₂Ca_n-1Cu_nO_x [02(n-1)n-Ba]

C. W. Chu, Y. Y. Xue, Z. L. Du, Y. Y. Sun, L. Gao, N. L. Wu, Y. Cao, I. Rusakova, and K. Ross
Science 22 August 1997: 1081-1083.
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Natural (Mg,Fe)SiO₃-Ilmenite and -Perovskite in the Tenham Meteorite

Naotaka Tomioka and Kiyoshi Fujino
Science 22 August 1997: 1084-1086.
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Size Variation in Middle Pleistocene Humans

J. L. Arsuaga, J. M. Carretero, C. Lorenzo, A. Gracia, I. Martínez, J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, and E. Carbonell
Science 22 August 1997: 1086-1088.
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Ecological Effects of an Insect Introduced for the Biological Control of Weeds

S. M. Louda, D. Kendall, J. Connor, and D. Simberloff
Science 22 August 1997: 1088-1090.
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A Macrophage Invasion Mechanism of Pathogenic Mycobacteria

Jeffrey S. Schorey, Michael C. Carroll, and Eric J. Brown
Science 22 August 1997: 1091-1093.
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Functional Role of High-Affinity Anandamide Transport, as Revealed by Selective Inhibition

M. Beltramo, N. Stella, A. Calignano, S. Y. Lin, A. Makriyannis, and D. Piomelli
Science 22 August 1997: 1094-1097.
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An NGF-TrkA-Mediated Retrograde Signal to Transcription Factor CREB in Sympathetic Neurons

Antonella Riccio, Brian A. Pierchala, Christopher L. Ciarallo, and David D. Ginty
Science 22 August 1997: 1097-1100.
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Hypermethylated SUPERMAN Epigenetic Alleles in Arabidopsis

Steven E. Jacobsen and Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Science 22 August 1997: 1100-1103.
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In Situ Activation Pattern of Drosophila EGF Receptor Pathway During Development

Limor Gabay, Rony Seger, and Ben-Zion Shilo
Science 22 August 1997: 1103-1106.
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Thermophilic Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria from the Deep Subsurface: The Evolutionary Implications

Shi V. Liu, Jizhong Zhou, Chuanlun Zhang, David R. Cole, M. Gajdarziska-Josifovska, and Tommy J. Phelps
Science 22 August 1997: 1106-1109.
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Altered Neural Cell Fates and Medulloblastoma in Mouse patched Mutants

Lisa V. Goodrich, Ljiljana Milenkovi, Kay M. Higgins, and Matthew P. Scott
Science 22 August 1997: 1109-1113.
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Epidermal Cell Differentiation in Arabidopsis Determined by a Myb Homolog, CPC

Takuji Wada, Tatsuhiko Tachibana, Yoshiro Shimura, and Kiyotaka Okada
Science 22 August 1997: 1113-1116.
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Technical Comments

 Distribution and Causation of Species Endangerment in the United States

Brian Czech, Paul R. Krausman;, A. Dobson, J. P. Rodriguez, W. M. Roberts, and D. S. Wilcove;
Science 22 August 1997: 1116-1117.
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