This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
EU-U.S. Research Collaboration

Jorma Routti
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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

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Chinese Stone Tools Reveal High-Tech Homo erectus

Ann Gibbons
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Novel Protein Delivers HIV to Target Cells

Jon Cohen
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STEM CELLS:
Protest Leads Europeans to Confess Patent Error

Michael Hagmann
Science 3 March 2000: 1567-1569.
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CHEMISTRY:
Novel Catalyst Runs Quick and Clean

Robert F. Service
Science 3 March 2000: 1569-1570.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
WIMPs at Last? Or More Wimpy Sightings?

Adrian Cho
Science 3 March 2000: 1570-1571.
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GLOBAL HEALTH:
Group Urges Action on Third World Drugs

Martin Enserink
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RESEARCH FACILITIES:
Glittering Future for Yale Medical School

Constance Holden
Science 3 March 2000: 1571-1572.
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MICROBIAL GENOMICS:
Culling Genes Early Yields Rich Harvest

Elizabeth Pennisi
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CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
NEJM Admits Breaking Its Own Tough Rules

Constance Holden
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
Budget Pressures Force Closing of Kitt Peak Dish

Mark Muro
Science 3 March 2000: 1573-1575.
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MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING:
Detecting Enzyme Activity in Live Animals

Evelyn Straus
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

EVOLUTION
In Search of Vertebrate Origins: Beyond Brain and Bone

Carl Zimmer
Science 3 March 2000: 1576-1579.
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AAAS MEETING:
Going Deep for an Unearthly Microbe

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 3 March 2000: 1580-1583.
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AAAS MEETING:
Rings Reveal a Supernova's Story

Charles Seife
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AAAS MEETING:
Power From Pond Scum

Jocelyn Kaiser
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AAAS MEETING:
How to Steer a Hurricane

Robert Irion
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AAAS MEETING:
The Brains Behind the Face

Gretchen Vogel
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AAAS MEETING:
Science Gains at State Department

David Malakoff
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Asilomar Revisited: Lessons for Today?

Marcia Barinaga
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Managing the Rhesus Supply

Jeffrey A. Roberts, David Glenn Smith, and Andrew Hendrickx
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 From the "Math Wars" Front

Jack Price
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 Statistics of Ancestral Roots

L. G. Freeman
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 A Question of Permanence

Donald A. Windsor
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 Clinical Research

Alan M. Sugar
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Instruments of the Revolution

Steven Shapin
Science 3 March 2000: 1598-1599.
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HISTORY OF MEDICINE:
Sainthood Confirmed

Ronald L. Numbers
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Spirit of Discovery

Bram Duchovnay and Caroline Joyce
Science 3 March 2000: 1595-1597.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: The Latest News from Mars

David W. Mittlefehldt
Science 3 March 2000: 1601-1602.
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MANTLE GEOPHYSICS:
Clues from a Shocked Meteorite

Masaki Akaogi
Science 3 March 2000: 1602-1603.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Sting in the Tail of Electron Tracks

Barry D. Michael and Peter O'Neill
Science 3 March 2000: 1603-1604.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
The Calcium Entry Pas de Deux

Michael J. Berridge, Peter Lipp, and Martin D. Bootman
Science 3 March 2000: 1604-1605.
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Review

Wnt Signaling in Oncogenesis and Embryogenesis--a Look Outside the Nucleus

Mark Peifer and Paul Polakis
Science 3 March 2000: 1606-1609.
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Research Articles

The Catalytic Pathway of Cytochrome P450cam at Atomic Resolution

Ilme Schlichting, Joel Berendzen, Kelvin Chu, Ann M. Stock, Shelley A. Maves, David E. Benson, Robert M. Sweet, Dagmar Ringe, Gregory A. Petsko, and Stephen G. Sligar
Science 3 March 2000: 1615-1622.
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Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like Stone Technology of the Bose Basin, South China

Hou Yamei, Richard Potts, Yuan Baoyin, Guo Zhengtang, Alan Deino, Wang Wei, Jennifer Clark, Xie Guangmao, and Huang Weiwen
Science 3 March 2000: 1622-1626.
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Reports

A Global View of Martian Surface Compositions from MGS-TES

Joshua L. Bandfield, Victoria E. Hamilton, and Philip R. Christensen
Science 3 March 2000: 1626-1630.
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Isotope Fractionation and Atmospheric Oxygen: Implications for Phanerozoic O₂ Evolution

R. A. Berner, S. T. Petsch, J. A. Lake, D. J. Beerling, B. N. Popp, R. S. Lane, E. A. Laws, M. B. Westley, N. Cassar, F. I. Woodward, and W. P. Quick
Science 3 March 2000: 1630-1633.
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Natural NaAlSi₃O₈-Hollandite in the Shocked Sixiangkou Meteorite

Philippe Gillet, Ming Chen, Leonid Dubrovinsky, and Ahmed El Goresy
Science 3 March 2000: 1633-1636.
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Green, Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohols in Water

Gerd-Jan ten Brink, Isabel W. C. E. Arends, and Roger A. Sheldon
Science 3 March 2000: 1636-1639.
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Translation of the Edited mRNA for Cytochrome b in Trypanosome Mitochondria

Anton Horváth, Edward A. Berry, and Dmitri A. Maslov
Science 3 March 2000: 1639-1640.
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A Potassium Channel Protein Encoded by Chlorella Virus PBCV-1

B. Plugge, S. Gazzarrini, M. Nelson, R. Cerana, J. L. Van Etten, C. Derst, D. DiFrancesco, A. Moroni, and G. Thiel
Science 3 March 2000: 1641-1644.
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Requirement of the Prolyl Isomerase Pin1 for the Replication Checkpoint

Katharine E. Winkler, Katherine I. Swenson, Sally Kornbluth, and Anthony R. Means
Science 3 March 2000: 1644-1647.
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Requirement of the Inositol Trisphosphate Receptor for Activation of Store-Operated Ca²⁺ Channels

Hong-Tao Ma, Randen L. Patterson, Damian B. Van Rossum, Lutz Birnbaumer, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, and Donald L. Gill
Science 3 March 2000: 1647-1651.
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An Ultrasensitive Bacterial Motor Revealed by Monitoring Signaling Proteins in Single Cells

Philippe Cluzel, Michael Surette, and Stanislas Leibler
Science 3 March 2000: 1652-1655.
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Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2-Dependent Evasion of the Phagocyte NADPH Oxidase

Andrés Vazquez-Torres, Yisheng Xu, Jessica Jones-Carson, David W. Holden, Scott M. Lucia, Mary C. Dinauer, Pietro Mastroeni, and Ferric C. Fang
Science 3 March 2000: 1655-1658.
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Resonant Formation of DNA Strand Breaks by Low-Energy (3 to 20 eV) Electrons

Badia Boudaïffa, Pierre Cloutier, Darel Hunting, Michael A. Huels, and Léon Sanche
Science 3 March 2000: 1658-1660.
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Dual Signaling Regulated by Calcyon, a D1 Dopamine Receptor Interacting Protein

Nelson Lezcano, Ladislav Mrzljak, Steven Eubanks, Robert Levenson, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, and Clare Bergson
Science 3 March 2000: 1660-1664.
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Epitopes Involved in Antibody-Mediated Protection from Ebola Virus

Julie A. Wilson, Michael Hevey, Russell Bakken, Shawn Guest, Mike Bray, Alan L. Schmaljohn, and Mary Kate Hart
Science 3 March 2000: 1664-1666.
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Technical Comments

 Hepatitis C Virus, the E2 Envelope Protein, and -Interferon Resistance

Karim Abid, Rafael Quadri, Francesco Negro;, Deborah R. Taylor, Stephanie T. Shi, Patrick R. Romano, Glen N. Barber, and Michael M. C. Lai;
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