This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Politics, Misinformation, and Biotechnology

Christopher S. Bond
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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

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News of the Week

X-RAY ASTRONOMY:
Loss of ASTRO-E X-ray Satellite Hurts Japan's Space Science ...

Dennis Normile
Science 18 February 2000: 1178-1179.
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... While European Observatory Sends Back First X-ray Images

Govert Schilling
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GENOMICS:
Mouse Sequencers Take Up the Shotgun

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 18 February 2000: 1179-1181.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
New Clue to Age Control in Yeast

Evelyn Strauss
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MOLECULAR COMPUTING:
RNA Works Out Knight Moves

Charles Seife
Science 18 February 2000: 1182-1183.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Fired Researcher Is Rehired and Refired

Eliot Marshall
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Double Magic for New Nickel Nucleus

Adrian Cho
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
U.K. Plans Major Medical DNA Database

Michael Hagmann
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BIOMEDICINE:
New Genetic Tricks to Rejuvenate Ailing Livers

Michael Hagmann
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AUSTRIA:
Researchers Brace for Political Backlash

Robert Koenig
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Controversy Claims CDC Lab Chief

Martin Enserink
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

TAKING A STAND:
Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World

Jocelyn Kaiser
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TAKING A STAND:
Citizen-Scientist Guru

Jocelyn Kaiser
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TAKING A STAND:
A Reluctant Warrior

Jocelyn Kaiser
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TAKING A STAND:
Role Model for Ecology's Generation X

Jocelyn Kaiser
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TRANSFORMING A DISCIPLINE:
A New Breed of Scientist-Advocate Emerges

Kathryn S. Brown
Science 18 February 2000: 1192-1195.
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TRANSFORMING A DISCIPLINE:
At Home on the Range

Kathryn S. Brown
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VSOP SYMPOSIUM:
Knotted Jets and Odd Quasars Reveal Secrets by Radio

Dennis Normile
Science 18 February 2000: 1195-1196.
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BIOMEDICAL PATENTS:
Patent Office May Raise the Bar on Gene Claims

Martin Enserink
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 "Restoration"--A Misnomer?

Mark A. Davis
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 Irony: The Spice of (Online) Life

Jeffrey H. Boatright
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 Names for Cash

Alessandro Minelli, O. Kraus, and P. K. Tubbs
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 "Science Wars"

Oliver H. Winn
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 Designer Labs

Richard S. Jope
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 Clarification of AstraZeneca's R&D Strategies

Claes Wilhelmsson
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 Cooperating on Childhood Cancer

Susan M. Sieber, Steven K. Galson;, and Jocelyn Kaiser
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 Decay Rate of Beryllium-7 in Different Environments

A. Ray, P. Das, S. K. Saha, and S. K. Das
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Before the Fall of the Wall

Joachim Sauer
Science 18 February 2000: 1210-1211.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
Wondrous Senses

Richard Gregory
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
The Health and Wealth of Nations

David E. Bloom and David Canning
Science 18 February 2000: 1207-1209.
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Perspectives

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
SRP--Where the RNA and Membrane Worlds Meet

Peter Walter, Robert Keenan, and Uli Schmitz
Science 18 February 2000: 1212-1213.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Into the Forbidden Zone

J. G. Liou, B. R. Hacker, and R. Y. Zhang
Science 18 February 2000: 1215-1216.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Temperatures High and Low

David E. Parker
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ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: Superclusters--the Largest Structures in the Universe?

Michael Drinkwater
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
A Powerhouse Divided

William Martin
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Tech.Sight

COMPUTERS AND BIOLOGY:
Bioinformatics in the Information Age

Sylvia J. Spengler
Science 18 February 2000: 1221-1223.
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SOFTWARE:
Keeping Track of Bases

Ellen M. Quardokus
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Research Articles

Interpreting Differential Temperature Trends at the Surface and in the Lower Troposphere

B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, D. J. Gaffen, L. Bengtsson, C. Doutriaux, J. S. Boyle, M. Esch, J. J. Hnilo, P. D. Jones, G. A. Meehl, E. Roeckner, K. E. Taylor, and M. F. Wehner
Science 18 February 2000: 1227-1232.
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Crystal Structure of the Ribonucleoprotein Core of the Signal Recognition Particle

Robert T. Batey, Robert P. Rambo, Louise Lucast, Brian Rha, and Jennifer A. Doudna
Science 18 February 2000: 1232-1239.
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Reports

Three-Layered Atmospheric Structure in Accretion Disks Around Stellar-Mass Black Holes

S. N. Zhang, Wei Cui, Wan Chen, Yangsen Yao, Xiaoling Zhang, Xuejun Sun, Xue-Bing Wu, and Haiguang Xu
Science 18 February 2000: 1239-1241.
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Multidecadal Changes in the Vertical Temperature Structure of the Tropical Troposphere

Dian J. Gaffen, Benjamin D. Santer, James S. Boyle, John R. Christy, Nicholas E. Graham, and Rebecca J. Ross
Science 18 February 2000: 1242-1245.
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Self-Assembling Amphiphilic Siderophores from Marine Bacteria

J. S. Martinez, G. P. Zhang, P. D. Holt, H.-T. Jung, C. J. Carrano, M. G. Haygood, and Alison Butler
Science 18 February 2000: 1245-1247.
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Widespread Complex Flow in the Interior of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Jonathan L. Bamber, David G. Vaughan, and Ian Joughin
Science 18 February 2000: 1248-1250.
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Density of Phonon States in Iron at High Pressure

R. Lübbers, H. F. Grünsteudel, A. I. Chumakov, and G. Wortmann
Science 18 February 2000: 1250-1253.
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Inhibition of Experimental Liver Cirrhosis in Mice by Telomerase Gene Delivery

Karl Lenhard Rudolph, Sandy Chang, Melissa Millard, Nicole Schreiber-Agus, and Ronald A. DePinho
Science 18 February 2000: 1253-1258.
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Prevention of Acute Liver Failure in Rats with Reversibly Immortalized Human Hepatocytes

Naoya Kobayashi, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara, Karen A. Westerman, Yusuke Inoue, Masakiyo Sakaguchi, Hirofumi Noguchi, Masahiro Miyazaki, Jin Cai, Noriaki Tanaka, Ira J. Fox, and Philippe Leboulch
Science 18 February 2000: 1258-1262.
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The Glucocorticoid Receptor: Rapid Exchange with Regulatory Sites in Living Cells

James G. McNally, Waltraud G. Müller, Dawn Walker, Ronald Wolford, and Gordon L. Hager
Science 18 February 2000: 1262-1265.
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Dopaminergic Loss and Inclusion Body Formation in -Synuclein Mice: Implications for Neurodegenerative Disorders

Eliezer Masliah, Edward Rockenstein, Isaac Veinbergs, Margaret Mallory, Makoto Hashimoto, Ayako Takeda, Yutaka Sagara, Abbyann Sisk, and Lennart Mucke
Science 18 February 2000: 1265-1269.
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Neuroimaging Evidence for Dissociable Forms of Repetition Priming

R. Henson, T. Shallice, and R. Dolan
Science 18 February 2000: 1269-1272.
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Sparse Coding and Decorrelation in Primary Visual Cortex During Natural Vision

William E. Vinje and Jack L. Gallant
Science 18 February 2000: 1273-1276.
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Mitochondrial FtsZ in a Chromophyte Alga

Peter L. Beech, Thao Nheu, Thomas Schultz, Shane Herbert, Trevor Lithgow, Paul R. Gilson, and Geoffrey I. McFadden
Science 18 February 2000: 1276-1279.
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Convergent Solutions to Binding at a Protein-Protein Interface

Warren L. DeLano, Mark H. Ultsch, Abraham M. de Vos, and James A. Wells
Science 18 February 2000: 1279-1283.
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Evidence for a High Frequency of Simultaneous Double-Nucleotide Substitutions

Michalis Averof, Antonis Rokas, Kenneth H. Wolfe, and Paul M. Sharp
Science 18 February 2000: 1283-1286.
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Technical Comments

 Peg3 and the Conflict Hypothesis

Laurence D. Hurst, Andrew Pomiankowski, Gilean T. McVean;, Guillaume Smits, Jasmine Parma, Gilbert Vassart;, L.-L. Li, E. B. Keverne, S. A. Aparicio, S. C. Barton, M. A. Surani, and F. Ishino;
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