Contents

Contents

• This Week in Science

  • Editor summaries of this week's papers.

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• Editorial

  • Cooperation, Competition, and Science Policy

    By Erich Bloch

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• Departments

  • ScienceScope

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  • Health of Native Americans * Rabies Death for Poe? * Micromanaging Atoms

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  • AAAS News & Notes|

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  • Products & Materials

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  • Quarterly Index

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  • Book Reviews

    • Frontiers of Illusion, reviewed by D. H. Guston * The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs and Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era, D. A. Russell * The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy * Vignettes * Books Received

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• News & Comment

  • Whose Genome Is It, Anyway?

    By Eliot Marshall

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  • Research Is Spared the Budget Ax

    By Michael Balter

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  • No Respite for International Labs

    By Robert Koenig

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  • Explosive Growth Helps Japan Take Its Place on Global Team

    By Lori Valigra

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  • New Networks Aren't Good Enough

    By Lori Valigra

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  • A Plea to Protect Threatened Collections

    By Nigel Williams

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  • Congressional Scorecard Sparks Furor

    By Andrew Lawler

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  • In Boston, a Revolutionary Experience

    By Wade Roush

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• Research News

  • Biofilms Invade Microbiology

    By Carol Potera

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  • Linking Microbiology and Engineering

    By Carol Potera

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  • Receptor Mutations Help Slow Disease Progression<

    By Jon Cohen

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  • Quick Work Draws Scientific Praise, Colleagues' Complaints

    By Jon Cohen

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  • Hubble Spectrograph Takes a Hard Look in the Ultraviolet

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Birth of B and Be

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Hints of Distant Comets?

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Aurora on Ganymede

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Plastics May Add New Colors to Lasers' Light Show

    By Robert F. Service

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  • How the Songbird Makes His Song

    By Elizabeth Pennisi

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  • Politics Meets Technology in Next Collider

    By Alexander Hellemans

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• Letters

  • This Week's Letters

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  • Interleukin-1 Research

    By Thomas P. Hopp

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  • On Sociological Biophobia

    By Andrew Abbott

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  • Morality Play

    By Leslie Z. Benet

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  • On Sociological Biophobia

    By John H. Gagnon

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  • Morality Play

    By Leslie Z. Benet

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  • Morality Play

    By Walter R. Debler

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  • Morality Play

    By James R. Thomen

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  • Morality Play

    By Ernest B. Hook

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  • Morality Play

    By Carter Eckert

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  • Response: Morality Play

    By Dorothy S. Zinberg

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• Book Reviews

  • Paleovertebrates: The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs.

    By Dale A. Russell

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  • Also Noteworthy: The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy.

    By Katherine Livingston

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  • Books Received

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• Perspectives

  • Flux Lattice Melting

    By David J. Bishop

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  • Is Neural Noise Just a Nuisance?

    By David Ferster

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  • A Parallel Spliceosome

    By Timothy W. Nilsen

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• Articles

  • Noble Gases and Earth's Accretion

    By Charles L. Harper Jr., Stein B. Jacobsen

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  • Copper Sources, Metal Production, and Metals Trade in Late Postclassic Mesoamerica

    By Dorothy Hosler, Andrew Macfarlane

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• Research Article

  • Highly Diverged U4 and U6 Small Nuclear RNAs Required for Splicing Rare AT-AC Introns

    By Woan-Yuh Tarn, Joan A. Steitz

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• Reports

  • Semiconducting Polymers: A New Class of Solid-State Laser Materials

    By Fumitomo Hide, María A. Díaz-García, Benjamin J. Schwartz, Mats R. Andersson, Qibing Pei, Alan J. Heeger

    Science27 Sep 1996 : 1833-1836 Full AccessRestricted Access

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  • Nanorod-Superconductor Composites: A Pathway to Materials with High Critical Current Densities

    By Peidong Yang, Charles M. Lieber

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  • Methane Hydrate and Free Gas on the Blake Ridge from Vertical Seismic Profiling

    By W. Steven Holbrook, Hartley Hoskins, Warren T. Wood, Ralph A. Stephen, Daniel Lizarralde

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  • Peculiarities of Methane Clathrate Hydrate Formation and Solid-State Deformation, Including Possible Superheating of Water Ice

    By Laura A. Stern, Stephen H. Kirby, William B. Durham

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  • A Trinuclear Intermediate in the Copper-Mediated Reduction of O₂: Four Electrons from Three Coppers

    By Adam P. Cole, David E. Root, Pulakesh Mukherjee, Edward I. Solomon, T. D. P. Stack

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  • Age and Paleogeographical Origin of Dominican Amber

    By Manuel A. Iturralde-Vinent, R. D. E. MacPhee

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  • Initiation of Runaway Cell Death in an Arabidopsis Mutant by Extracellular Superoxide

    By Thorsten Jabs, Robert A. Dietrich, Jeffery L. Dangl

    Science27 Sep 1996 : 1853-1856 Full AccessRestricted Access

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  • Genetic Restriction of HIV-1 Infection and Progression to AIDS by a Deletion Allele of the CKR5 Structural Gene

    By Michael Dean, Mary Carrington, Cheryl Winkler, Gavin A. Huttley, Michael W. Smith, Rando Allikmets, James J. Goedert, Susan P. Buchbinder, Eric Vittinghoff, Edward Gomperts, Sharyne Donfield, David Vlahov, Richard Kaslow, Alfred Saah, Charles Rinaldo, Roger Detels, Stephen J. O'Brien

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  • CD40 Ligand-Dependent T Cell Activation: Requirement of B7-CD28 Signaling Through CD40

    By Yiping Yang, James M. Wilson

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  • Requirement for CD40 Ligand in Costimulation Induction, T Cell Activation, and Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis

    By Iqbal S. Grewal, Harald G. Foellmer, Kate D. Grewal, Jianchao Xu, Fridrika Hardardottir, Jody L. Baron, Charles A. Janeway Jr., Richard A. Flavell

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  • Dynamics of Ongoing Activity: Explanation of the Large Variability in Evoked Cortical Responses

    By Amos Arieli, Alexander Sterkin, Amiram Grinvald, Ad Aertsen

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  • Temporal Hierarchical Control of Singing in Birds

    By Albert C. Yu, Daniel Margoliash

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  • Conformational States of the Nuclear Pore Complex Induced by Depletion of Nuclear Ca²⁺ Stores

    By Carmen Perez-Terzic, Jason Pyle, Marisa Jaconi, Lisa Stehno-Bittel, David E. Clapham

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• Technical Comments

  • Sm-Nd Isotopic Data and Earth's Evolution

    By S. Moorbath, M. J. Whitehouse, S. A. Bowring, T. Housh

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  • Sm-Nd Isotopic Data and Earth's Evolution

    By S. Moorbath, M. J. Whitehouse

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  • Response: Sm-Nd Isotopic Data and Earth's Evolution

    By Samuel A. Bowring, Todd Housh

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