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6 September 1985Volume 229, No. 4717
This Week in Science ......................................................
LETTERS The Electricity Industry: A. B. Lovins; M. Crawford; C. Whipple ...............
EDITORIAL Memorandum to Universal Science Foundation ...............................
ARTICLES Seismology of the Sun: J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, D. Gough, J. Toomre .........
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors in Protein Antigenic Structure: J. A. Berzofsky....Sequence and Structure of a Human Glucose Transporter: M. Mueckler et al.....
NEWS AND COMMENT
RESEARCH NEWS
Reagan Announces New ASAT Test .........................................
NIH to Award 2200 New Grants.............................................
Bomb Scandal Highlights French Testing .....................................
U.S., Mexico Pledge Smelter Controls .......................................
Briefing: Biotechnology's Movie Debut Worries Industry; Academy's FusionStudy Causes a Stir; British Scientists Urge Supercomputer Program; OhioState's Telescope Granted 10-Year Reprieve ..............................
"Spy Dust" Irritates Diplomats .............................................
Continental Drift Nearing Certain Detection ..................................
An Agenda for Space Physics ...............................................
WIMP's, Cosmions, and Solar Neutrinos .....................................
Nitrogen Fixation Briefing: Fixing Nitrogen Without Molybdenum?; GeneRearrangements in a Prokaryote .........................................
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AAAS NEWS Professional Ethics Group Reports on Spring Meeting: S. Painter; Call forNominations; Summer Fellows Work on Environmental Issues and with MassMedia; Issues on Arms Control Featured in New Publications; AAAS OffersDesk Diary for 1986; Call for Nominations: 1986 General Election; Arid LandsConference Slated for October in Tucson ........ ......................... 958
BOOK REVIEWS Reproductive Decisions, reviewed by J. B. Silk; The Neurobiology of Motivationand Reward, F. Toates; Geomorphology, P. C. Patton; The Creation ofQuantum Mechanics and the Bohr-Pauli Dialogue, L. Wessels; BooksReceived .............................................................. 961
REPORTS Rare Earths: Atmospheric Signatures for Oil-Fired Power Plants and Refineries:I. Olmez and G. E. Gordon ............ ................................. 966
Crassulacean Acid Metabolism in the Strangler Clusia rosea Jacq.:I. P. Ting, E. M. Lord, L. da S. L. Sternberg, M. J. DeNiro ..... .......... 969
A 1500-Year Record of Tropical Precipitation in Ice Cores from the Quelccaya IceCap, Peru: L. G. Thompson, E. Mosley-Thompson, J. F. Bolzan, B. R. Koci 971
Amplification of a Novel v-erbB-Related Gene in a Human Mammary Carcinoma:C. R. King, M. H. Kraus, S. A. Aaronson ................................(9
The neu Gene: An erbB-Homologous Gene Distinct from and Unlinked to theGene Encoding the EGF Receptor: A. L. Schechter et al. ..... ............
Isolation and Propagation of a Human Enteric Coronavirus: S. Resta, J. P. Luby,C. R. Rosenfeld, J. D. Siegel ............................................ 978
Recombinant Vaccinia Virus: Immunization Against Multiple Pathogens:M. E. Perkus, A. Piccini, B. R. Lipinskas, E. Paoletti ...................... 981
Growth Regulation of Human Melanocytes: Mitogenic Factors in Extracts ofMelanoma, Astrocytoma, and Fibroblast Cell Lines: M. Eisinger, 0. Marko,S.-I. Ogata, L. J. Old ................. ................................. 984
Hallucinogenic Amphetamine Selectively Destroys Brain Serotonin NerveTerminals: G. Ricaurte, G. Bryan, L. Strauss, L. Seiden, C. Schuster ....... 986
Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Binding Sites in Human Breast Carcinoma:K. A. Eidne, C. A. Flanagan, R. P. Millar ................................ 989
Tissue Factor Gene Localized to Human Chromosome 1 (lpter-+1p21):S. D. Carson, W. M. Henry, T. B. Shows ...................... .......... 991
COVER
Power as observed in solar 5-minuteoscillations with frequency v (fromabout 1.5 mHz at bottom to 5.7 mHz attop and degree 1 (from about 7 on left to170 on right). The narrow ridges ofconcentrated power (shown by thelighter tones) corresponds to theoreti-cally predicted acoustic resonances inthe sun. Analysis of observed frequen-hcies permits study of the structure anddynamics of the solar interior. See page923. [T. L. Duvall, Jr., and J. W.Harvey, National Solar Observatory, /P.O. Box 26732, Tucson, Arizona85726]
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To: Universal Science FoundationPlanet UtopiaGalaxy 7,073,216
From: Intergalactic Cultural Anthropology ExpeditionSections IV and XXI
Re: Anomalous Behavior Patterns
The expedition to examine subcultures and behavioral patterns on PlanetEarth has uncovered an anomaly that defies explanation by the rationalprinciples and Cartesian logic of our own planet. Sections IV and XXItraveled independently in separate cruise missiles and randomly selectedinhabitants for analysis by our noninvasive probes; that is, acousticaleavesdropping and quantitative three-dimensional gossip.At 3:00 p.m. Earth Time on 4 August, Section IV located an individual
with a red face speaking into a telephone at the 103-decibel level. Thesubject was using arcane linguistic techniques with multisyllable words suchas "nincompoop" and "incompetent" occasionally interspersed with four-letter words not available in captured dictionaries. This species, whichSection IV calls "Author," was complaining bitterly to something calledThe Journal that his manuscript had received no decision in 3 weeks despite(i) it represented better work than had ever appeared in that journal for thelast decade and (ii) it was easily the best of his 176 papers, none of whichhad been treated so shabbily. It was ascertained that this work had taken 2years to complete, 3 months to write up, and 1.5 months to be criticized bycolleagues of the Author before being sent to The Journal. At 3:37 p.m.,Section IV moved on to study behavior of one horse, two bullfinches, and agarter snake, all of which behaved in a classical and rational Cartesianmanner.At 4:00 p.m. on 4 August, Section XXI located an individual with a red
face speaking into a telephone at the 10-3-decibel level using multisyllablewords such as "impossible" and "inconceivable" occasionally broken bysigns, groans, and anguished looks at the ceiling. This species, whichSection XXI calls "Referee," was apologizing to something called TheJournal that (i) the manuscript that he had received for review had onlyrecently arrived, having been delayed in the mails; (ii) he had in fact beenstudying the manuscript for weeks; and (iii) it had come during a periodwhen he was out of the country, writing a grant, lecturing to 300 students,and lying flat on his back in the hospital being fed intravenously. Hepromised that the manuscript would be put in the mail "tomorrow" andcomplained that it was unreasonable of The Journal to expect a busyReferee such as he was to review a manuscript in less than 3 weeks. SectionXXI was unable to obtain a definition of the word "tomorrow" before itmoved on to study the viscosity of rush-hour traffic.The anomaly in the case was not recognized until the two sections
received laboratory reports of their remote-sensing DNA-sequencing deter-minations and optical surface imagery. The former indicated identical DNAsequences for the two species and optical photographs revealed identicalclothing and facial characteristics. The sections concluded that it wastheoretically astounding, but experimentally conclusive, that both expedi-tionary units had observed the same individual. No explanation for thesubject's behavior could be suggested until Professor X173 discovered thatthere were two hemispheres of the- brain of Homo sapiens. We concludethat a single body houses both species, but that the Author species uses theleft hemisphere and the Referee species the right hemisphere, and there isno cross-correlative system. Professor X173 predicts that such split person-alities will create wars, famines, and two types of Coca-Cola.
P ~~'7<>/L ' SC-DANIEL E. KOSHLAND, JR.