This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Education for a Biocomplex Future

Louis J. Gross
Science 5 May 2000: 807.
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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

Science 5 May 2000: 883.

News of the Week

NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY:
DOE Set to Double Price of Troubled Laser Project

David Malakoff
Science 5 May 2000: 782-783.
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MILITARY ASSETS:
Scientists Gain Access to Sharper GPS Signal

Andrew Lawler
Science 5 May 2000: 783.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Hints of Frequent Pre-Columbian Contacts

Heather Pringle
Science 5 May 2000: 783-785.
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ECOLOGY:
Does Biodiversity Help Fend Off Invaders?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 5 May 2000: 785-786.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Caution Raised About Possible New Drug

Trisha Gura
Science 5 May 2000: 786-787.
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ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM:
Grants Evoke Squeals of Delight and Anger

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 5 May 2000: 787-788.
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ANTIMATTER:
Coaxing Shy Particles Into an Atomic Jar

Alexander Hellemans
Science 5 May 2000: 788-789.
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EVOLUTION:
Stretching the Reign of Early Animals

Richard A. Kerr
Science 5 May 2000: 789.
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THERMODYNAMICS:
Backward Heat Flow Bends the Law a Bit

Mark Sincell
Science 5 May 2000: 789-791.
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BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
New Minister Hopes to Create an Italian NIH

Michael Balter
Science 5 May 2000: 791.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE:
Superbugs on the Hoof?

Dan Ferber
Science 5 May 2000: 792-794.
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PHILANTHROPY:
Indian Schools Cash In on Silicon Valley Wealth

Pallava Bagla
Science 5 May 2000: 794-795.
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GENOMICS:
Money and Machines Fuel China's Push in Sequencing

Hui Li
Science 5 May 2000: 795-798.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS:
From Field to Lab, New Insights on Being Human

Ann Gibbons
Science 5 May 2000: 798-800.
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GENOMES 2000:
Intimate Portraits of Bacterial Nemeses

Michael Hagmann
Science 5 May 2000: 800-801.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 5 May 2000: 809.
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 Surveying the SBIR Program

Jere W. Glover;, John Davis;, and Josh Lerner
Science 5 May 2000: 809.
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 Carbon Cost of Applying Nitrogen Fertilizer

R. César Izaurralde, William B. McGill, Norman J. Rosenberg;, and William H. Schlesinger
Science 5 May 2000: 809.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 5 May 2000: 809.
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Books et al.

PSYCHOLOGY:
Et tu Homo sapiens?

Marc D. Hauser
Science 5 May 2000: 816-817.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Roots of the Fact

Mary Poovey
Science 5 May 2000: 817.
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 Books Received

Science 5 May 2000: 817.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Not (Just) in Kansas Anymore

Eugenie C. Scott
Science 5 May 2000: 813-815.
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Perspectives

SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Shrewd Investments

Martin A. Nowak and Karl Sigmund
Science 5 May 2000: 819-820.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The Shape of Kleopatra

William K. Hartmann
Science 5 May 2000: 820-821.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Lighting Up the Nucleus

Akira Nagatani
Science 5 May 2000: 821-822.
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ASTRONOMY:
Primordial Rain or Galactic Pollution?

Martin Zwaan
Science 5 May 2000: 822-823.
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Review

Whither the Future of Controlling Quantum Phenomena?

Herschel Rabitz, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Marcus Motzkus, and Karl Kompa
Science 5 May 2000: 824-828.
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Reports

Micropatterning of Organic Electronic Devices by Cold-Welding

Changsoon Kim, Paul E. Burrows, and Stephen R. Forrest
Science 5 May 2000: 831-833.
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Stable Versions of Transient Push-Pull Carbenes: Extending Lifetimes from Nanoseconds to Weeks

Christophe Buron, Heinz Gornitzka, Vadim Romanenko, and Guy Bertrand
Science 5 May 2000: 834-836.
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Radar Observations of Asteroid 216 Kleopatra

Steven J. Ostro, R. Scott Hudson, Michael C. Nolan, Jean-Luc Margot, Daniel J. Scheeres, Donald B. Campbell, Christopher Magri, Jon D. Giorgini, and Donald K. Yeomans
Science 5 May 2000: 836-839.
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Large-Scale Thermal Events in the Solar Nebula: Evidence from Fe,Ni Metal Grains in Primitive Meteorites

Anders Meibom, Steven J. Desch, Alexander N. Krot, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Michael I. Petaev, Lionel Wilson, and Klaus Keil
Science 5 May 2000: 839-841.
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Age of Neoproterozoic Bilatarian Body and Trace Fossils, White Sea, Russia: Implications for Metazoan Evolution

M. W. Martin, D. V. Grazhdankin, S. A. Bowring, D. A. D. Evans, M. A. Fedonkin, and J. L. Kirschvink
Science 5 May 2000: 841-845.
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⁴⁰K-⁴⁰Ar Constraints on Recycling Continental Crust into the Mantle

Nicolas Coltice, Francis Albarède, and Philippe Gillet
Science 5 May 2000: 845-847.
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Satellite Measurements of Sea Surface Temperature Through Clouds

Frank J. Wentz, Chelle Gentemann, Deborah Smith, and Dudley Chelton
Science 5 May 2000: 847-850.
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Cooperation Through Image Scoring in Humans

Claus Wedekind and Manfred Milinski
Science 5 May 2000: 850-852.
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Species Diversity and Biological Invasions: Relating Local Process to Community Pattern

Jonathan M. Levine
Science 5 May 2000: 852-854.
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Homogenization of Fish Faunas Across the United States

Frank J. Rahel
Science 5 May 2000: 854-856.
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Evidence for Brainstem Structures Participating in Oculomotor Integration

K. Nakamagoe, Y. Iwamoto, and K. Yoshida
Science 5 May 2000: 857-859.
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Direct Targeting of Light Signals to a Promoter Element-Bound Transcription Factor

Jaime F. Martínez-García, Enamul Huq, and Peter H. Quail
Science 5 May 2000: 859-863.
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Template Boundary in a Yeast Telomerase Specified by RNA Structure

Yehuda Tzfati, Tracy B. Fulton, Jagoree Roy, and Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Science 5 May 2000: 863-867.
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Promoter-Selective Properties of the TBP-Related Factor TRF1

Michael C. Holmes and Robert Tjian
Science 5 May 2000: 867-870.
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Requirement of JNK for Stress- Induced Activation of the Cytochrome c-Mediated Death Pathway

Cathy Tournier, Patricia Hess, Derek D. Yang, Jie Xu, Tod K. Turner, Anjaruwee Nimnual, Dafna Bar-Sagi, Stephen N. Jones, Richard A. Flavell, and Roger J. Davis
Science 5 May 2000: 870-874.
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Ubiquitin Protein Ligase Activity of IAPs and Their Degradation in Proteasomes in Response to Apoptotic Stimuli

Yili Yang, Shengyun Fang, Jane P. Jensen, Allan M. Weissman, and Jonathan D. Ashwell
Science 5 May 2000: 874-877.
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Seeing the Herpesvirus Capsid at 8.5 Å 

Z. Hong Zhou, Matthew Dougherty, Joanita Jakana, Jing He, Frazer J. Rixon, and Wah Chiu
Science 5 May 2000: 877-880.
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Technical Comments

 New Neurons: Extraordinary Evidence or Extraordinary Conclusion?

Richard S. Nowakowski, Nancy L. Hayes;, Elizabeth Gould, and Charles G. Gross;
Science 5 May 2000: 771.
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