This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Lunch Selections Expanding

Floyd E. Bloom
Science 4 February 2000: 801.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 4 February 2000: 881.

News of the Week

2001 BUDGET:
How NSF Came Up With the Biggest Boost in Its History

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 4 February 2000: 778-779.
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ASTRONOMY:
Signs of MACHOs in a Far-Off Galaxy

Govert Schilling
Science 4 February 2000: 779.
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FRANCE:
Street Protests Keep the Pressure on Allègre

Michael Balter
Science 4 February 2000: 781.
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JAPAN:
Blue Laser Pioneer Seeks Greener Pastures

Dennis Normile
Science 4 February 2000: 782.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Both Sides Claim Victory in Trade Pact

Laura Helmuth
Science 4 February 2000: 782-783.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Stretching Horizons for Electrical Devices

Adrian Cho
Science 4 February 2000: 783.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
A Face-Off Over Tumor Blood Supply

Marcia Barinaga
Science 4 February 2000: 783-785.
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U.S. PRIZES:
17 Get Science, Technology Medals

David Malakoff
Science 4 February 2000: 785.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Earthmovers of the Amazon

Charles C. Mann
Science 4 February 2000: 786-789.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
The Good Earth: Did People Improve the Amazon Basin?

Charles C. Mann
Science 4 February 2000: 788.
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Consumer Power Heralds Hard Times for Researchers

Lone Frank
Science 4 February 2000: 790-791.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Cold Numbers Unmake the Quantum Mind

Charles Seife
Science 4 February 2000: 791.
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MATHEMATICS:
Fermat's Last Theorem's First Cousin

Dana Mackenzie
Science 4 February 2000: 792-793.
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ECOLOGY:
How Climate Change Alters Rhythms of the Wild

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 4 February 2000: 793-795.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
New Focus on Cool Planets and Hot Gas in Atlanta

Robert Irion
Science 4 February 2000: 796-797.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 4 February 2000: 803.
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 Timeline Travails

Don Ihde; and Ivan Amato
Science 4 February 2000: 803.
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 Antibiotic Rotation

Louis Roccanova and Philip Rappa III
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 Herbicide Use on Roundup Ready Crops

Janet Carpenter and Leonard Gianessi
Science 4 February 2000: 803.
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 Benefits of Membership

Etienne Danchin, Richard H. Wagner, Julia K. Parrish, and Leah Edelstein-Keshet
Science 4 February 2000: 803.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PALEOBIOLOGY:
Reef Processes in the Long View

J. E. N. Veron
Science 4 February 2000: 811-812.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Solving the Sverdlovsk Mystery

Jonathan B. Tucker
Science 4 February 2000: 812.
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 Books Received

Science 4 February 2000: 812.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
From Turin to Stockholm via St. Louis and Rio de Janeiro

Rita Levi-Montalcini
Science 4 February 2000: 809.
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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
A Life in Science

H. Gobind Khorana
Science 4 February 2000: 810.
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Regeneration in the Nogo Zone

Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Corey S. Goodman
Science 4 February 2000: 813-814.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: The Strength of a Continent

Gregory A. Houseman
Science 4 February 2000: 814-815.
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DRUG DELIVERY:
Regulating Export of ER Cargo

Meir Aridor and William E. Balch
Science 4 February 2000: 816-817.
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BEHAVIOR:
Measuring Beelines to Food

Thomas Collett
Science 4 February 2000: 817-818.
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BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS:
Biosynthesis Meets Bioinformatics

David E. Cane
Science 4 February 2000: 818-819.
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Review

Adaptive Recognition by Nucleic Acid Aptamers

Thomas Hermann and Dinshaw J. Patel
Science 4 February 2000: 820-825.
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Research Article

Regulation of Protein Secretion Through Controlled Aggregation in the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Victor M. Rivera, Xiurong Wang, Scott Wardwell, Nancy L. Courage, Allen Volchuk, Terence Keenan, Dennis A. Holt, Michael Gilman, Lelio Orci, Frank Cerasoli, Jr., James E. Rothman, and Tim Clackson
Science 4 February 2000: 826-830.
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Reports

Temporal Trends in Deep Ocean Redfield Ratios

Markus Pahlow and Ulf Riebesell
Science 4 February 2000: 831-833.
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Dynamics of the Pacific-North American Plate Boundary in the Western United States

Lucy M. Flesch, William E. Holt, A. John Haines, and Bingming Shen-Tu
Science 4 February 2000: 834-836.
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High-Speed Electrically Actuated Elastomers with Strain Greater Than 100%

Ron Pelrine, Roy Kornbluh, Qibing Pei, and Jose Joseph
Science 4 February 2000: 836-839.
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Two-Dimensional Electronic Excitations in Self-Assembled Conjugated Polymer Nanocrystals

R. Österbacka, C. P. An, X. M. Jiang, and Z. V. Vardeny
Science 4 February 2000: 839-842.
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Cool Glacial Temperatures and Changes in Moisture Source Recorded in Oman Groundwaters

Constanze E. Weyhenmeyer, Stephen J. Burns, H. Niklaus Waber, Werner Aeschbach-Hertig, Rolf Kipfer, H. Hugo Loosli, and Albert Matter
Science 4 February 2000: 842-845.
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Cross-Species Interactions Between Malaria Parasites in Humans

Marian C. Bruce, Christl A. Donnelly, Michael P. Alpers, Mary R. Galinski, John W. Barnwell, David Walliker, and Karen P. Day
Science 4 February 2000: 845-848.
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Mutations in SDHD, a Mitochondrial Complex II Gene, in Hereditary Paraganglioma

Bora E. Baysal, Robert E. Ferrell, Joan E. Willett-Brozick, Elizabeth C. Lawrence, David Myssiorek, Anne Bosch, Andel van der Mey, Peter E. M. Taschner, Wendy S. Rubinstein, Eugene N. Myers, Charles W. Richard, III, Cees J. Cornelisse, Peter Devilee, and B. Devlin
Science 4 February 2000: 848-851.
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Honeybee Navigation: Nature and Calibration of the "Odometer"

Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Shaowu Zhang, Monika Altwein, and Jürgen Tautz
Science 4 February 2000: 851-853.
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Population Dynamical Consequences of Climate Change for a Small Temperate Songbird

B.-E. Sæther, J. Tufto, S. Engen, K. Jerstad, O. W. Røstad, and J. E. Skåtan
Science 4 February 2000: 854-856.
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Connectivity of Marine Populations: Open or Closed?

Robert K. Cowen, Kamazima M. M. Lwiza, Su Sponaugle, Claire B. Paris, and Donald B. Olson
Science 4 February 2000: 857-859.
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Eta-1 (Osteopontin): An Early Component of Type-1 (Cell-Mediated) Immunity

Samy Ashkar, Georg F. Weber, Vassiliki Panoutsakopoulou, Marie E. Sanchirico, Marianne Jansson, Samer Zawaideh, Susan R. Rittling, David T. Denhardt, Melvin J. Glimcher, and Harvey Cantor
Science 4 February 2000: 860-864.
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Synaptic Assembly of the Brain in the Absence of Neurotransmitter Secretion

Matthijs Verhage, Ascanio S. Maia, Jaap J. Plomp, Arjen B. Brussaard, Joost H. Heeroma, Hendrika Vermeer, Ruud F. Toonen, Robert E. Hammer, Timo K. van den Berg, Markus Missler, Hans J. Geuze, and Thomas C. Südhof
Science 4 February 2000: 864-869.
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A Subclass of Ras Proteins That Regulate the Degradation of IB

Craig Fenwick, Soon-Young Na, Reinhard E. Voll, Haihong Zhong, Suhn-Young Im, Jae Woon Lee, and Sankar Ghosh
Science 4 February 2000: 869-873.
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Signaling and Circuitry of Multiple MAPK Pathways Revealed by a Matrix of Global Gene Expression Profiles

Christopher J. Roberts, Bryce Nelson, Matthew J. Marton, Roland Stoughton, Michael R. Meyer, Holly A. Bennett, Yudong D. He, Hongyue Dai, Wynn L. Walker, Timothy R. Hughes, Mike Tyers, Charles Boone, and Stephen H. Friend
Science 4 February 2000: 873-880.
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Technical Comments

 Intrinsic Versus Extrinsic Pseudogaps in Photoemission Spectra of Poorly Conducting Solids

D. S. Dessau, T. Saitoh;, and Robert Joynt;
Science 4 February 2000: 767.
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