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Because Science and Nature continue to be the premier scientific journals for publication of results of the greatest general significance and interest, it's worth noting the frequency with which papers describing new crystallographic determinations and advances appear in their pages. In Nov. and Dec. of 1996 alone over twenty research reports or lead articles discussing new crystallographic discoveries appeared in Science, Nature and C&E News. They included macromolecular studies of RNA-antibiotic complexes, the association between globular antifreeze and ice, the hammerhead ribozyme, a DNA helicase, on GTPase active domain, a time resolved study of myoglobin, a new cyclooxygenase, and an odor detecting protein. An equal number of X- ray studies of materials including studies of dislocation mediated crystal melting, pentacoordinate silicon in calcium silicate, a stable triple bond between molybdenum and germanium, polymorphs of alumina, chiral interdigitated multilayers, molecular magnets, disorder on the surface of mercury, pico-tube dimension, the self assembly of polyrotaxone, and the fabrication of nanocrystals of TaSe2 with a scanning tunneling microscope.