This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science in the Future of India

C. N. R. Rao
Science 12 November 1999: 1295.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

GENETIC DISEASE:
Storm Brews Over Gene Bank of Estonian Population

Lone Frank
Science 12 November 1999: 1262-1263.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Malarial Genome Comes Into View

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 November 1999: 1263-1265.
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PUBLISHING:
Kennedy Named Editor-in-Chief of Science

Science 12 November 1999: 1263.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Key Brain Receptor Gets an Unusual Regulator

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 12 November 1999: 1265-1266.
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COSMOLOGY:
Balloon Flight Brings Cosmic Glow Into Focus

Robert Irion
Science 12 November 1999: 1266-1267.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Memory T Cells Don't Need Practice

Michael Hagmann
Science 12 November 1999: 1267.
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NUCLEAR CITIES:
U.S. Cuts Retraining of Russian Weaponeers

Richard Stone
Science 12 November 1999: 1268-1269.
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GENETICS:
Gene Skews Patterns of Inheritance

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 November 1999: 1269.
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ANIMAL REGULATIONS:
FDA Report Scores Chimp Research Lab

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 November 1999: 1269-1271.
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INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:
University of Cambridge to Team Up With MIT

Michael Hagmann
Science 12 November 1999: 1271.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Tenured Women Battle to Make It Less Lonely at the Top

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 November 1999: 1272-1278.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
MIT as 'Intractable Enemy'

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 November 1999: 1275.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Margaret Geller: Battling Discrimination or Bureaucracy?

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 November 1999: 1277.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
From MIT, a Primer on Boosting Women's Status

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 November 1999: 1278.
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING:
Geology Near, Far, and Long Ago

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 November 1999: 1279-1281.
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CHEMISTRY:
Does Life's Handedness Come From Within?

Robert F. Service
Science 12 November 1999: 1282-1283.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT:
A Shifting Equation Links Modern Farming and Forests

Laura Helmuth
Science 12 November 1999: 1283.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 AAAS STATEMENT:
on the Kansas State Board of Education Decision on the Education of Students in the Science of Evolution and Cosmology

the AAAS Board of Directors
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 First Indications of Geological Activity on Triton

William K. Hartmann; and Richard A. Kerr
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 Valuing Scientists as Educators

Laurie A. Fathe; and Steven B. Oppenheimer
Science 12 November 1999: 1297.
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 Tuberculosis Vaccines

RenÚe Ridzon, Margaret Hannan;, Tom Lietman, Sally Blower;, Marcel A. Behr, and Peter M. Small
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF MEDICINE:
Is AIDS Man-Made?

Robin A. Weiss
Science 12 November 1999: 1305-1306.
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 BROWSINGS

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Policy Forum

SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Science and Higher Education in Russia

Irina Dezhina and Loren Graham
Science 12 November 1999: 1303-1304.
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Perspectives

MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhanced: The ABCs of Self-Assembly

Edwin L. Thomas
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Cell Survival Demands Some Rsk

Angel R. Nebreda and Anne-Claude Gavin
Science 12 November 1999: 1309-1310.
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ULTRAFAST X-RAY DIFFRACTION:
Watching Matter Rearrange

Keith A. Nelson
Science 12 November 1999: 1310-1311.
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 DEVELOPMENT:
NotaBene: Whirling Dervishes

Orla Smith
Science 12 November 1999: 1311.
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Research Article

Structure of an E6AP-UbcH7 Complex: Insights into Ubiquitination by the E2-E3 Enzyme Cascade

Lan Huang, Elspeth Kinnucan, Guangli Wang, Sylvie Beaudenon, Peter M. Howley, Jon M. Huibregtse, and Nikola P. Pavletich
Science 12 November 1999: 1321-1326.
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Reports

Evidence for a Ubiquitous Seismic Discontinuity at the Base of the Mantle

Igor Sidorin, Michael Gurnis, and Don V. Helmberger
Science 12 November 1999: 1326-1331.
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Fluid Flow in Chondritic Parent Bodies: Deciphering the Compositions of Planetesimals

Edward D. Young, Richard D. Ash, Philip England, and Douglas Rumble, III
Science 12 November 1999: 1331-1335.
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Imaging of Humic Substance Macromolecular Structures in Water and Soils

S. C. B. Myneni, J. T. Brown, G. A. Martinez, and W. Meyer-Ilse
Science 12 November 1999: 1335-1337.
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Origin of Magnetization Decay in Spin-Dependent Tunnel Junctions

Martha R. McCartney, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, Michael R. Scheinfein, David J. Smith, Savas Gider, and Stuart S. P. Parkin
Science 12 November 1999: 1337-1340.
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Detection of Nonthermal Melting by Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction

C. W. Siders, A. Cavalleri, K. Sokolowski-Tinten, Cs. Tóth, T. Guo, M. Kammler, M. Horn von Hoegen, K. R. Wilson, D. von der Linde, and C. P. J. Barty
Science 12 November 1999: 1340-1342.
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Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Uneven Rate of Skeletal Evolution Among Dinosaurs

Paul C. Sereno, Allison L. Beck, Didier B. Dutheil, Hans C. E. Larsson, Gabrielle H. Lyon, Bourahima Moussa, Rudyard W. Sadleir, Christian A. Sidor, David J. Varricchio, Gregory P. Wilson, and Jeffrey A. Wilson
Science 12 November 1999: 1342-1347.
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Prolonged Activation of Mitochondrial Conductances During Synaptic Transmission

Elizabeth A. Jonas, JoAnn Buchanan, and Leonard K. Kaczmarek
Science 12 November 1999: 1347-1350.
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A Genetic Map and Recombination Parameters of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Xin-zhuan Su, Michael T. Ferdig, Yaming Huang, Chuong Q. Huynh, Anna Liu, Jingtao You, John C. Wootton, and Thomas E. Wellems
Science 12 November 1999: 1351-1353.
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Sexual Transmission and Propagation of SIV and HIV in Resting and Activated CD4⁺ T Cells

Z.-Q. Zhang, T. Schuler, M. Zupancic, S. Wietgrefe, K. A. Staskus, K. A. Reimann, T. A. Reinhart, M. Rogan, W. Cavert, C. J. Miller, R. S. Veazey, D. Notermans, S. Little, S. A. Danner, D. D. Richman, D. Havlir, J. Wong, H. L. Jordan, T. W. Schacker, P. Racz, K. Tenner-Racz, N. L. Letvin, S. Wolinsky, and A. T. Haase
Science 12 November 1999: 1353-1357.
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Cell Survival Promoted by the Ras-MAPK Signaling Pathway by Transcription-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms

Azad Bonni, Anne Brunet, Anne E. West, Sandeep Robert Datta, Mari A. Takasu, and Michael E. Greenberg
Science 12 November 1999: 1358-1362.
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The Protein Kinase p90 Rsk as an Essential Mediator of Cytostatic Factor Activity

Ramesh R. Bhatt and James E. Ferrell, Jr.
Science 12 November 1999: 1362-1365.
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Induction of Metaphase Arrest in Cleaving Xenopus Embryos by the Protein Kinase p90^Rsk

Stefan D. Gross, Markus S. Schwab, Andrea L. Lewellyn, and James L. Maller
Science 12 November 1999: 1365-1367.
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Activation of PPAR Coactivator-1 Through Transcription Factor Docking

Pere Puigserver, Guillaume Adelmant, Zhidan Wu, Melina Fan, Jianming Xu, Bert O'Malley, and Bruce M. Spiegelman
Science 12 November 1999: 1368-1371.
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Evidence for Autoregulation of Cystathionine -Synthase mRNA Stability in Arabidopsis

Yukako Chiba, Mari Ishikawa, Fumiko Kijima, R. Huw Tyson, Jungsup Kim, Ayako Yamamoto, Eiji Nambara, Thomas Leustek, Roger M. Wallsgrove, and Satoshi Naito
Science 12 November 1999: 1371-1374.
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Defective Thymocyte Maturation in p44 MAP Kinase (Erk 1) Knockout Mice

Gilles Pagès, Sandrine Guérin, Dominique Grall, Frédéric Bonino, Austin Smith, Fabienne Anjuere, Patrick Auberger, and Jacques Pouysségur
Science 12 November 1999: 1374-1377.
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Persistence of Memory CD8 T Cells in MHC Class I-Deficient Mice

Kaja Murali-Krishna, Lisa L. Lau, Suryaprakash Sambhara, Francois Lemonnier, John Altman, and Rafi Ahmed
Science 12 November 1999: 1377-1381.
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Class II-Independent Generation of CD4 Memory T Cells from Effectors

Susan L. Swain, Hui Hu, and Gail Huston
Science 12 November 1999: 1381-1383.
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Technical Comments

BACE Maps to Chromosome 11 and a BACE Homolog, BACE2, Reside in the Obligate Down Syndrome Region of Chromosome 21 

Aleister J. Saunders, Tae-Wan Kim, Rudolph E. Tanzi;, Wei Fan, Brian D. Bennett, Safura Babu-Kahn, Yi Luo, Jean-Claude Louis, Michael McCaleb, Martin Citron, Robert Vassar, and William G. Richards;
Science 12 November 1999: 1255.
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