This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Sustainable Consumption

Norman Myers
Science 31 March 2000: 2419.
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

CONSERVATION:
Conflict in Congo Threatens Bonobos and Rare Gorillas

Gretchen Vogel
Science 31 March 2000: 2386-2387.
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FRANCE:
Allègre Loses Job, Research Split Off

Michael Balter
Science 31 March 2000: 2387.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Mirror Film Is the Fairest of Them All

Robert F. Service
Science 31 March 2000: 2387-2389.
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NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY:
Richardson Puts Laser Project on Short Leash

David Malakoff
Science 31 March 2000: 2389-2390.
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GENETICS:
Chipping Away at the Causes of Aging

Jean Marx
Science 31 March 2000: 2390.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Drug-Resistant TB on the Rise

Erik Stokstad
Science 31 March 2000: 2391.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Bat Researchers Dispute Rabies Policy

Christine Mlot
Science 31 March 2000: 2391-2392.
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2001 BUDGET:
Austerity Push Begins a Bumpy Ride for R&D

Andrew Lawler
Science 31 March 2000: 2392-2393.
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GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY:
Aging NASA Satellite Headed for Fiery End

Laura Helmuth
Science 31 March 2000: 2393.
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GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY:
Sky Survey Finds Mysterious Strangers

Charles Seife
Science 31 March 2000: 2393-2395.
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QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Physicists Unveil Schrödinger's SQUID

Adrian Cho
Science 31 March 2000: 2395.
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QUANTUM MECHANICS:
Lab Accident Damages Solar Flare Satellite

Andrew Lawler
Science 31 March 2000: 2395.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENCE INTERVIEW:
In the Crossfire: Collins on Genomes, Patents, and 'Rivalry'

Eliot Marshall, Elizabeth Pennisi, and Leslie Roberts
Science 31 March 2000: 2396-2398.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
When an Entire Country Is a Cohort

Lone Frank
Science 31 March 2000: 2398-2399.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Patent Suit Pits Postdoc Against Former Mentor

Eliot Marshall
Science 31 March 2000: 2399-2401.
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LUNAR AND PLANETARY SCIENCE CONFERENCE:
Oddities Both Lunar and Martian

Richard A. Kerr
Science 31 March 2000: 2402-2403.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Life on Snowball Earth

Warwick F. Vincent and Clive Howard-Williams
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 Asilomar Revisited

John Coulter
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 Untapped Source of Diplomats

Peter Cohen
Science 31 March 2000: 2421.
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 Respect for the Opposition

Christopher D. Heinen; and Steven B. Sands
Science 31 March 2000: 2421.
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 pH Values Below Zero

William A. Pryor
Science 31 March 2000: 2421.
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 Close Encounters: Details Veto Depth from Shadows

Patrick Cavanagh, John M. Kennedy;, Denis G. Pelli, and Melanie Palomares
Science 31 March 2000: 2421.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ECOLOGY:
The Human Role in Environmental History

Karl W. Butzer
Science 31 March 2000: 2427-2428.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Many Facets of a Noble Dane

Nicholas Jardine
Science 31 March 2000: 2428.
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 Books Received

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Perspectives

MOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY:
Nanomatrices Are Cool

Giacinto Scoles and Kevin K. Lehmann
Science 31 March 2000: 2429-2430.
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ASTRONOMY:
Stars at the Edge of Stability

Norbert Langer
Science 31 March 2000: 2430-2431.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
RNA Interference

Phillip A. Sharp and Phillip D. Zamore
Science 31 March 2000: 2431-2433.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
Enhanced: News from the Solar Interior

Douglas Gough
Science 31 March 2000: 2434-2435.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Bit Players in the Trombone Orchestra

Peter H. von Hippel and Debra H. Jing
Science 31 March 2000: 2435-2436.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Running the Red Light

Henri Buc
Science 31 March 2000: 2437-2438.
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RETROSPECTIVE:
William Hamilton (1936-2000)

David Haig, Naomi E. Pierce, and Edward O. Wilson
Science 31 March 2000: 2438.
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Research Article

Giant Birefringent Optics in Multilayer Polymer Mirrors

Michael F. Weber, Carl A. Stover, Larry R. Gilbert, Timothy J. Nevitt, and Andrew J. Ouderkirk
Science 31 March 2000: 2451-2456.
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Reports

Dynamic Variations at the Base of the Solar Convection Zone

R. Howe, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, F. Hill, R. W. Komm, R. M. Larsen, J. Schou, M. J. Thompson, and J. Toomre
Science 31 March 2000: 2456-2460.
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Isolating the Spectroscopic Signature of a Hydration Shell With the Use of Clusters: Superoxide Tetrahydrate

J. Mathias Weber, Jude A. Kelley, Steen B. Nielsen, Patrick Ayotte, and Mark A. Johnson
Science 31 March 2000: 2461-2463.
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Hot and Dry Deep Crustal Xenoliths from Tibet

Bradley R. Hacker, Edwin Gnos, Lothar Ratschbacher, Marty Grove, Michael McWilliams, Stephen V. Sobolev, Jiang Wan, and Wu Zhenhan
Science 31 March 2000: 2463-2466.
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Global Carbon Sinks and Their Variability Inferred from Atmospheric O₂ and ¹³C

M. Battle, M. L. Bender, P. P. Tans, J. W. C. White, J. T. Ellis, T. Conway, and R. J. Francey
Science 31 March 2000: 2467-2470.
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On the Presence of Liquid in Earth's Inner Core

S. C. Singh, M. A. J. Taylor, and J. P. Montagner
Science 31 March 2000: 2471-2474.
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Insect Population Control Using a Dominant, Repressible, Lethal Genetic System

Dean D. Thomas, Christl A. Donnelly, Roger J. Wood, and Luke S. Alphey
Science 31 March 2000: 2474-2476.
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bicoid-Independent Formation of Thoracic Segments in Drosophila

Ernst A. Wimmer, Alan Carleton, Phoebe Harjes, Terry Turner, and Claude Desplan
Science 31 March 2000: 2476-2479.
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Necessity for Afferent Activity to Maintain Eye-Specific Segregation in Ferret Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

Barbara Chapman
Science 31 March 2000: 2479-2482.
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Structure of the RNA Polymerase Domain of E. coli Primase

James L. Keck, Daniel D. Roche, A. Simon Lynch, and James M. Berger
Science 31 March 2000: 2482-2486.
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Mitotic Misregulation and Human Aging

Danith H. Ly, David J. Lockhart, Richard A. Lerner, and Peter G. Schultz
Science 31 March 2000: 2486-2492.
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Similar Requirements of a Plant Symbiont and a Mammalian Pathogen for Prolonged Intracellular Survival

K. LeVier, R. W. Phillips, V. K. Grippe, R. M. Roop, II, and G. C. Walker
Science 31 March 2000: 2492-2493.
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Genetic Requirements for Inheritance of RNAi in C. elegans

Alla Grishok, Hiroaki Tabara, and Craig C. Mello
Science 31 March 2000: 2494-2497.
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Single-Molecule Study of Transcriptional Pausing and Arrest by E. coli RNA Polymerase

R. John Davenport, Gijs J. L. Wuite, Robert Landick, and Carlos Bustamante
Science 31 March 2000: 2497-2500.
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T Cell-Independent Rescue of B Lymphocytes from Peripheral Immune Tolerance

Valerie Kouskoff, Georges Lacaud, and David Nemazee
Science 31 March 2000: 2501-2503.
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Technical Comments

 Middle Miocene Hominoid Origins

David R. Begun;, Brenda R. Benefit, Monte L. McCrossin;, Jay Kelley, Steve Ward, Barbara Brown, Andrew Hill, and Will Downs;
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