This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Funding the Nanotech Frontier

Philip H. Abelson
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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

PALEONTOLOGY:
Florida Meeting Shows Perils, Promise of Dealing for Dinos

Constance Holden
Science 14 April 2000: 238-239.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Dinos and Turkeys: Connected by DNA?

Constance Holden
Science 14 April 2000: 238.
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PLANT SCIENCE:
Stealth Genome Rocks Rice Researchers

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 April 2000: 239-241.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Hot Pepper Receptor Could Help Manage Pain

Gretchen Vogel
Science 14 April 2000: 241-242.
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SPACE RESEARCH:
Mir Gets New Lease on Its Scientific Life

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 April 2000: 242.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Claim and Counterclaim on the Human Genome

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 April 2000: 242-243.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
A Mold's Toxic Legacy Revisited

Michael Hagmann
Science 14 April 2000: 243-244.
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U.S.-INDIA COOPERATION:
Pruned Sanctions List Points to Closer Ties

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 14 April 2000: 244.
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ANGIOGENESIS RESEARCH:
Cancer Drugs Found to Work in New Way

Marcia Barinaga
Science 14 April 2000: 245.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Transgenic Crops Report Fuels Debate

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 April 2000: 245-247.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
'Pre-Clovis' Site Fights for Recognition

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 April 2000: 247.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SUPPLIERS:
The Rise of the Mouse, Biomedicine's Model Mammal

David Malakoff
Science 14 April 2000: 248-253.
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MOUSE ECONOMY:
A Mouse Chronology

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 April 2000: 248-257.
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SUPPLIERS:
Decoding a Mouse Name

David Malakoff
Science 14 April 2000: 250.
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ACADEMIC FACILITIES:
The Mouse House as a Recruiting Tool

Gretchen Vogel
Science 14 April 2000: 254-255.
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PROPERTY CLAIMS:
A Deluge of Patents Creates Legal Hassles for Research

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 April 2000: 255-257.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Science Policy and the NASA Triana Mission

Roger Pielke Jr. and Robert Harriss
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 Origins of Vertebrate Success

Bernard Zalc and David R. Colman
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 Dynamic and Permanent

Colin Allen and Edward N. Zalta
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 Antiscrapie Drug Action

Laura Manuelidis; and Suzette A. Priola
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Books et al.

THEATER AND HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
A Friendship's Fission

David Voss
Science 14 April 2000: 278-279.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
DNA Banks for Endangered Animal Species

Oliver A. Ryder, Anne McLaren, Sydney Brenner, Ya-Ping Zhang, and Kurt Benirschke
Science 14 April 2000: 275-277.
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Perspectives

LANGUAGE:
Who's Got Rhythm?

Janet F. Werker and Athena Vouloumanos
Science 14 April 2000: 280-281.
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ASTRONOMY:
An Infrared Look Behind Stars

Craig J. Hogan
Science 14 April 2000: 281-283.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Stay the Executioner's Hand

Mark E. Gurney, Alfredo G. Tomasselli, and Robert L. Heinrikson
Science 14 April 2000: 283-284.
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ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: Meeting at the Interface

John H. Seinfeld
Science 14 April 2000: 285.
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Pathways of Discovery

Infectious History

Joshua Lederberg
Science 14 April 2000: 287-293.
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The Microbial World Wide Web

Joshua Lederberg
Science 14 April 2000: 291.
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Research Articles

Experiments and Simulations of Ion-Enhanced Interfacial Chemistry on Aqueous NaCl Aerosols

E. M. Knipping, M. J. Lakin, K. L. Foster, P. Jungwirth, D. J. Tobias, R. B. Gerber, D. Dabdub, and B. J. Finlayson-Pitts
Science 14 April 2000: 301-306.
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Impaired Nociception and Pain Sensation in Mice Lacking the Capsaicin Receptor

M. J. Caterina, A. Leffler, A. B. Malmberg, W. J. Martin, J. Trafton, K. R. Petersen-Zeitz, M. Koltzenburg, A. I. Basbaum, and D. Julius
Science 14 April 2000: 306-313.
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Reports

Titanium Carbide Nanocrystals in Circumstellar Environments

G. von Helden, A. G. G. M., Tielens, D. van Heijnsbergen, M. A. Duncan, S. Hony, L. B. F. M. Waters, and G. Meijer
Science 14 April 2000: 313-316.
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Translating Biomolecular Recognition into Nanomechanics

J. Fritz, M. K. Baller, H. P. Lang, H. Rothuizen, P. Vettiger, E. Meyer, H. -J. Güntherodt, Ch. Gerber, and J. K. Gimzewski
Science 14 April 2000: 316-318.
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Atomic Layer Deposition of Oxide Thin Films with Metal Alkoxides as Oxygen Sources

Mikko Ritala, Kaupo Kukli, Antti Rahtu, Petri I. Räisänen, Markku Leskelä, Timo Sajavaara, and Juhani Keinonen
Science 14 April 2000: 319-321.
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Nanometer-Size -PbO₂-Type TiO₂ in Garnet: A Thermobarometer for Ultrahigh-Pressure Metamorphism

Shyh-Lung Hwang, Pouyan Shen, Hao-Tsu Chu, and Tzen-Fu Yui
Science 14 April 2000: 321-324.
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The Influence of Canadian Forest Fires on Pollutant Concentrations in the United States

Gerhard Wotawa and Michael Trainer
Science 14 April 2000: 324-328.
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Nonrandom Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary History

Andy Purvis, Paul-Michael Agapow, John L. Gittleman, and Georgina M. Mace
Science 14 April 2000: 328-330.
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Chaperone Selection During Glycoprotein Translocation into the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Maurizio Molinari and Ari Helenius
Science 14 April 2000: 331-333.
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Convergence of the Secretory Pathways for Cholera Toxin and the Filamentous Phage, CTX

Brigid M. Davis, Elise H. Lawson, Maria Sandkvist, Afsar Ali, Shanmuga Sozhamannan, and Matthew K. Waldor
Science 14 April 2000: 333-335.
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Functional Role of Caspase-1 and Caspase-3 in an ALS Transgenic Mouse Model

Mingwei Li, Victor O. Ona, Christelle Guégan, Minghua Chen, Vernice Jackson-Lewis, L. John Andrews, Adam J. Olszewski, Philip E. Stieg, Jean-Pyo. Lee, Serge Przedborski, and Robert M. Friedlander
Science 14 April 2000: 335-339.
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The Outcome of Acute Hepatitis C Predicted by the Evolution of the Viral Quasispecies

Patrizia Farci, Atsushi Shimoda, Alessandra Coiana, Giacomo Diaz, Giovanna Peddis, Jacqueline C. Melpolder, Antonello Strazzera, David Y. Chien, Santiago J. Munoz, Angelo Balestrieri, Robert H. Purcell, and Harvey J. Alter
Science 14 April 2000: 339-344.
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Regulation of Area Identity in the Mammalian Neocortex by Emx2 and Pax6

Kathie M. Bishop, Guy Goudreau, and Dennis D. M. O'Leary
Science 14 April 2000: 344-349.
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Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys

Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, and Jacques Mehler
Science 14 April 2000: 349-351.
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