This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Importance of Reviewers

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 5 February 1999: 789.
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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

GLOBAL CHANGE:
Research Council Says U.S. Climate Models Can't Keep Up

Richard A. Kerr
Science 5 February 1999: 766-767.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Fruit Fly Researchers Sign Pact With Celera

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 5 February 1999: 767.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH:
Groups Sue to Tighten Oversight of Rodents

David Malakoff
Science 5 February 1999: 767-769.
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PHYSICS:
First Light for a Gamma Ray Flashbulb

Ivan Amato
Science 5 February 1999: 769-770.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Trigger for Centrosome Replication Found

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 5 February 1999: 770-771.
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POLYMER ELECTRONICS
Insulator Gives Plastic Transistors a Boost

Alexander Hellemans
Science 5 February 1999: 771.
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VIROLOGY:
AIDS Virus Traced to Chimp Subspecies

Jon Cohen
Science 5 February 1999: 772-773.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Dietary Data Straight From the Horse's Mouth

Virginia Morell
Science 5 February 1999: 773.
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AAAS MEETING: GENETICS:
Becoming a Symbiont Is in the Genes

Evelyn Strauss
Science 5 February 1999: 774.
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AAAS MEETING: LINGUISTICS:
Grammar's Secret Skeleton

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 5 February 1999: 774-775.
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AAAS MEETING: NEUROBIOLOGY:
Magnetic Cells: Stuff of Legend?

Melissa Mertl
Science 5 February 1999: 775.
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AAAS MEETING: BIOENGINEERING:
Fishing for Toxic Chemicals

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 5 February 1999: 775-776.
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AAAS MEETING: ANTHROPOLOGY:
More Questions About the Provider's Role

Michael Hagmann
Science 5 February 1999: 777.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SPENDING:
2000 Budget Plays Favorites

David Malakoff
Science 5 February 1999: 778-780.
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TECHNOLOGY:
New Drills Augur a Great Leap Downward

Kevin Krajick
Science 5 February 1999: 781-783.
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ASTRONOMY:
Pulsar Weather Map Shows Storms on a Strange World

James Glanz
Science 5 February 1999: 783-784.
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GERMANY:
New Minister on a Mission to Modernize

Robert Koenig
Science 5 February 1999: 784-785.
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GERMANY:
What to Do With FRM-II?

Robert Koenig
Science 5 February 1999: 785.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Disappearing Physician-Scientists

William R. Brinkley; and Ajit Varki
Science 5 February 1999: 791.
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 Origin and Ancestor: Separate Environments

Gustaf Arrhenius, Jeffrey L. Bada, Gerald F. Joyce, Antonio Lazcano, Stanley Miller, and Leslie E. Orgel
Science 5 February 1999: 791.
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 Health Care Costs

Spyros Andreopoulos;, Herbert Pardes, Kenneth G. Manton, Eric S. Lander, Arthur Ullian, H. Dennis Tolley, and Hans Palmer
Science 5 February 1999: 791.
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 The Cosmological Constant

S. J. Goldstein Jr.; and James Glanz
Science 5 February 1999: 791.
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 Analyzing Solitaire

Chris Kuykendall; and Dana Mackenzie
Science 5 February 1999: 791.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PSYCHOLOGY:
Humans Really Are Different

Richard A. Shweder
Science 5 February 1999: 798-799.
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DEVELOPMENT:
A View from Switzerland

Claude Desplan
Science 5 February 1999: 799.
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Policy Forum

DEMOGRAPHICS:
Aging in the Third Millennium

Edward L. Schneider
Science 5 February 1999: 796-797.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A New Look at the Jovian Planets

Bruno Bézard, Thérèse Encrenaz, Emmanuel Lellouch, and Helmut Feuchtgruber
Science 5 February 1999: 800-801.
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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Plankton and the Planet

Conrad W. Mullineaux
Science 5 February 1999: 801-802.
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VIRAL RNA REPLICATION:
With a Little Help from the Host

James H. Strauss and Ellen G. Strauss
Science 5 February 1999: 802-804.
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THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS:
Holey and Unholey Semiconductors

Terry M. Tritt
Science 5 February 1999: 804-805.
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Review

Population Biology, Evolution, and Infectious Disease: Convergence and Synthesis

Bruce R. Levin, Marc Lipsitch, and Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Science 5 February 1999: 806-809.
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Research Article

Solar Wind Outflow and the Chromospheric Magnetic Network

Donald M. Hassler, Ingolf E. Dammasch, Philippe Lemaire, Pål Brekke, Werner Curdt, Helen E. Mason, Jean-Claude Vial, and Klaus Wilhelm
Science 5 February 1999: 810-813.
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Reports

Asymmetric Scattering of Polarized Electrons by Organized Organic Films of Chiral Molecules

K. Ray, S. P. Ananthavel, D. H. Waldeck, and R. Naaman
Science 5 February 1999: 814-816.
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Self-Assembly of Flat Nanodiscs in Salt-Free Catanionic Surfactant Solutions

Th. Zemb, M. Dubois, B. Demé, and Th. Gulik-Krzywicki
Science 5 February 1999: 816-819.
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A Tenuous Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere on Jupiter's Moon Callisto

Robert W. Carlson
Science 5 February 1999: 820-821.
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Low-Voltage Organic Transistors on Plastic Comprising High-Dielectric Constant Gate Insulators

C. D. Dimitrakopoulos, S. Purushothaman, J. Kymissis, A. Callegari, and J. M. Shaw
Science 5 February 1999: 822-824.
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Ancient Diets, Ecology, and Extinction of 5-Million-Year-Old Horses from Florida

Bruce J. MacFadden, Nikos Solounias, and Thure E. Cerling
Science 5 February 1999: 824-827.
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¹⁶O Excesses in Olivine Inclusions in Yamato-86009 and Murchison Chondrites and Their Relation to CAIs

Hajime Hiyagon and Akihiko Hashimoto
Science 5 February 1999: 828-831.
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Elongation of Oligopeptides in a Simulated Submarine Hydrothermal System

Ei-ichi Imai, Hajime Honda, Kuniyuki Hatori, André Brack, and Koichiro Matsuno
Science 5 February 1999: 831-833.
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Oligomeric Structure of the Human EphB2 Receptor SAM Domain

Christopher D. Thanos, Kenneth E. Goodwill, and James U. Bowie
Science 5 February 1999: 833-836.
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Single-Channel Recording of a Store-Operated Ca²⁺ Channel in Jurkat T Lymphocytes

Hubert H. Kerschbaum and Michael D. Cahalan
Science 5 February 1999: 836-839.
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Widespread Iron Limitation of Phytoplankton in the South Pacific Ocean

Michael J. Behrenfeld and Zbigniew S. Kolber
Science 5 February 1999: 840-843.
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The Dynamics of Zooxanthellae Populations: A Long-Term Study in the Field

I. Fagoonee, H. B. Wilson, M. P. Hassell, and J. R. Turner
Science 5 February 1999: 843-845.
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Dependence of Human Stem Cell Engraftment and Repopulation of NOD/SCID Mice on CXCR4

Amnon Peled, Isabelle Petit, Orit Kollet, Michal Magid, Tanya Ponomaryov, Tamara Byk, Arnon Nagler, Herzl Ben-Hur, Ariel Many, Leonard Shultz, Ofer Lider, Ronen Alon, Dov Zipori, and Tsvee Lapidot
Science 5 February 1999: 845-848.
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CD3- and CD28-Dependent Induction of PDE7 Required for T Cell Activation

Linsong Li, Cassian Yee, and Joseph A. Beavo
Science 5 February 1999: 848-851.
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Requirement of Cdk2-Cyclin E Activity for Repeated Centrosome Reproduction in Xenopus Egg Extracts

Edward H. Hinchcliffe, Chuan Li, Elizabeth A. Thompson, James L. Maller, and Greenfield Sluder
Science 5 February 1999: 851-854.
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Mycolactone: A Polyketide Toxin from Mycobacterium ulcerans Required for Virulence

Kathleen M. George, Delphi Chatterjee, Geewananda Gunawardana, Diane Welty, John Hayman, Richard Lee, and P. L. C. Small
Science 5 February 1999: 854-857.
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Control of Viremia in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infection by CD8⁺ Lymphocytes

Jörn E. Schmitz, Marcelo J. Kuroda, Sampa Santra, Vito G. Sasseville, Meredith A. Simon, Michelle A. Lifton, Paul Racz, Klara Tenner-Racz, Margaret Dalesandro, Bernhard J. Scallon, John Ghrayeb, Meryl A. Forman, David C. Montefiori, E. Peter Rieber, Norman L. Letvin, and Keith A. Reimann
Science 5 February 1999: 857-860.
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Technical Comments

 Temperature Changes During the Younger Dryas in New Zealand

Rewi Newnham;, James Shulmeister, Christiane Singer, and Bill McLea;
Science 5 February 1999: 759.
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