This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Gene Therapist, Heal Thyself

Leon E. Rosenberg and Alan N. Schechter
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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

SPACE SCIENCE:
Reports Will Urge Overhaul and Delays to NASA's Mars Missions

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 March 2000: 1722-1723.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Talks of Public-Private Deal End in Acrimony

Eliot Marshall
Science 10 March 2000: 1723-1725.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Einstein Probe Remains Earthbound

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 March 2000: 1726.
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HELIOSEISMOLOGY:
Solar Physicists Get a Glimpse of the Far Side

Robert Irion
Science 10 March 2000: 1726-1727.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Buried Channels May Have Fed Mars Ocean

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 March 2000: 1727-1728.
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SPACE STATION BIOLOGY:
Panel Says NASA Must Show Results--Fast

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 March 2000: 1728-1729.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Duo Dodges Bullets in Russian Roulette

Richard Stone
Science 10 March 2000: 1729-1731.
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GEOMICROBIOLOGY:
Hardy Microbe Thrives at pH 0

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 10 March 2000: 1731-1732.
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CANADA:
Strong Economy Lifts Some Research Boats

Wayne Kondro
Science 10 March 2000: 1732.
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BIG SCIENCE:
Top French Researchers Spar Over Synchrotron

Michael Balter
Science 10 March 2000: 1732-1733.
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BIG SCIENCE:
Prospects Brighten for Berkeley Synchrotron

David Malakoff
Science 10 March 2000: 1733.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PALEOCLIMATE:
An Appealing Snowball Earth That's Still Hard to Swallow

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 March 2000: 1734-1736.
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ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS:
Wildlife Deaths Are a Grim Wake-Up Call in Eastern Europe

Robert Koenig
Science 10 March 2000: 1737-1738.
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OBESITY RESEARCH:
Tracing Leptin's Partners in Regulating Body Weight

Trisha Gura
Science 10 March 2000: 1738-1741.
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OBESITY RESEARCH:
Is Leptin a 'Thrifty' Hormone in Muscle and Fat?

Trisha Gura
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Clathrates Are Not the Culprit

Hugh H. Kieffer
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 Salmonella enteritidis Epidemic

Linda R. Ward, John Threlfall, Henry R. Smith, Sarah J. O'Brien;, Hans Riemann, Phil Kass, Dean Cliver;, Andreas J. Bõumler, Billy M. Hargis, and RenÚe M. Tsolis
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Dreams of Arctic Tea Plantations

Londa Schiebinger
Science 10 March 2000: 1761.
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MARINE ECOLOGY:
Frontline View of an Invasion

Josep-Maria Gili
Science 10 March 2000: 1762.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Can Protected Areas Be Expanded in Africa?

C. J. M. Musters, H. J. de Graaf, and W. J. ter Keurs
Science 10 March 2000: 1759-1760.
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
How Pollution Suppresses Rain

Owen B. Toon
Science 10 March 2000: 1763-1765.
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CELL CYCLE:
Piecing Together the p53 Puzzle

Antony M. Carr
Science 10 March 2000: 1765-1766.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Enhanced: A Furtive Pathogen Revealed

Xavier Nassif
Science 10 March 2000: 1767-1768.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Glass Beads Tell a Tale of Lunar Bombardment

Graham Ryder
Science 10 March 2000: 1768-1769.
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Pathways of Discovery

GENOMICS:
Journey to the Center of Biology

Eric S. Lander and Robert A. Weinberg
Science 10 March 2000: 1777-1782.
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Review

Global Biodiversity Scenarios for the Year 2100 

Osvaldo E. Sala, F. Stuart Chapin, III, Juan J. Armesto, Eric Berlow, Janine Bloomfield, Rodolfo Dirzo, Elisabeth Huber-Sanwald, Laura F. Huenneke, Robert B. Jackson, Ann Kinzig, Rik Leemans, David M. Lodge, Harold A. Mooney, Martín Oesterheld, N. LeRoy Poff, Martin T. Sykes, Brian H. Walker, Marilyn Walker, and Diana H. Wall
Science 10 March 2000: 1770-1774.
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Reports

Lunar Impact History from ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar Dating of Glass Spherules

Timothy S. Culler, Timothy A. Becker, Richard A. Muller, and Paul R. Renne
Science 10 March 2000: 1785-1788.
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Internal Structure and Early Thermal Evolution of Mars from Mars Global Surveyor Topography and Gravity

Maria T. Zuber, Sean C. Solomon, Roger J. Phillips, David E. Smith, G. Leonard Tyler, Oded Aharonson, Georges Balmino, W. Bruce Banerdt, James W. Head, Catherine L. Johnson, Frank G. Lemoine, Patrick J. McGovern, Gregory A. Neumann, David D. Rowlands, and Shijie Zhong
Science 10 March 2000: 1788-1793.
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Suppression of Rain and Snow by Urban and Industrial Air Pollution

Daniel Rosenfeld
Science 10 March 2000: 1793-1796.
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An Archaeal Iron-Oxidizing Extreme Acidophile Important in Acid Mine Drainage

Katrina J. Edwards, Philip L. Bond, Thomas M. Gihring, and Jillian F. Banfield
Science 10 March 2000: 1796-1799.
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Seismic Images of the Far Side of the Sun

C. Lindsey and and D. C. Braun
Science 10 March 2000: 1799-1801.
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Extreme Oxygen Sensitivity of Electronic Properties of Carbon Nanotubes

Philip G. Collins, Keith Bradley, Masa Ishigami, and A. Zettl
Science 10 March 2000: 1801-1804.
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Quiescence Maintained by p21^cip1/waf1

Tao Cheng, Neil Rodrigues, Hongmei Shen, Yong-guang Yang, David Dombkowski, Megan Sykes, and David T. Scadden
Science 10 March 2000: 1804-1808.
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Complete Genome Sequence of Neisseria meningitidis Serogroup B Strain MC58

Hervé Tettelin, Nigel J. Saunders, John Heidelberg, Alex C. Jeffries, Karen E. Nelson, Jonathan A. Eisen, Karen A. Ketchum, Derek W. Hood, John F. Peden, Robert J. Dodson, William C. Nelson, Michelle L. Gwinn, Robert DeBoy, Jeremy D. Peterson, Erin K. Hickey, Daniel H. Haft, Steven L. Salzberg, Owen White, Robert D. Fleischmann, Brian A. Dougherty, Tanya Mason, Anne Ciecko, Debbie S. Parksey, Eric Blair, Henry Cittone, Emily B. Clark, Matthew D. Cotton, Terry R. Utterback, Hoda Khouri, Haiying Qin, Jessica Vamathevan, John Gill, Vincenzo Scarlato, Vega Masignani, Mariagrazia Pizza, Guido Grandi, Li Sun, Hamilton O. Smith, Claire M. Fraser, E. Richard Moxon, Rino Rappuoli, and J. Craig Venter
Science 10 March 2000: 1809-1815.
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Identification of Vaccine Candidates Against Serogroup B Meningococcus by Whole-Genome Sequencing

Mariagrazia Pizza, Vincenzo Scarlato, Vega Masignani, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Beatrice Aricò, Maurizio Comanducci, Gary T. Jennings, Lucia Baldi, Erika Bartolini, Barbara Capecchi, Cesira L. Galeotti, Enrico Luzzi, Roberto Manetti, Elisa Marchetti, Marirosa Mora, Sandra Nuti, Giulio Ratti, Laura Santini, Silvana Savino, Maria Scarselli, Elisa Storni, Peijun Zuo, Michael Broeker, Erika Hundt, Bernard Knapp, Eric Blair, Tanya Mason, Hervé Tettelin, Derek W. Hood, Alex C. Jeffries, Nigel J. Saunders, Dan M. Granoff, J. Craig Venter, E. Richard Moxon, Guido Grandi, and Rino Rappuoli
Science 10 March 2000: 1816-1820.
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gridlock, an HLH Gene Required for Assembly of the Aorta in Zebrafish

Tao P. Zhong, Michael Rosenberg, Manzoor-Ali P. K. Mohideen, Brant Weinstein, and Mark C. Fishman
Science 10 March 2000: 1820-1824.
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DNA Damage-Induced Activation of p53 by the Checkpoint Kinase Chk2

Atsushi Hirao, Young-Yun Kong, Shuhei Matsuoka, Andrew Wakeham, Jürgen Ruland, Hiroki Yoshida, Dou Liu, Stephen J. Elledge, and Tak W. Mak
Science 10 March 2000: 1824-1827.
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Identification of a Cellular Cofactor Required for Infection by Feline Leukemia Virus

Maria M. Anderson, Adam S. Lauring, Cara C. Burns, and Julie Overbaugh
Science 10 March 2000: 1828-1830.
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Candidate Taste Receptors in Drosophila

Peter J. Clyne, Coral G. Warr, and John R. Carlson
Science 10 March 2000: 1830-1834.
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Correlates of Sleep and Waking in Drosophila melanogaster

Paul J. Shaw, Chiara Cirelli, Ralph J. Greenspan, and Giulio Tononi
Science 10 March 2000: 1834-1837.
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Genetic Suppression of Polyglutamine Toxicity in Drosophila

Parsa Kazemi-Esfarjani and Seymour Benzer
Science 10 March 2000: 1837-1840.
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