This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Thanks for the Memories

Floyd E. Bloom
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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

BIOMEDICAL ETHICS:
Penn Report, Agency Heads Home In on Clinical Research

Eliot Marshall
Science 2 June 2000: 1558-1559.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Brain Cells Reveal Surprising Versatility

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 June 2000: 1559-1561.
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MATHEMATICS:
Statistical Physicists Phase Out a Dream

Barry Cipra
Science 2 June 2000: 1561-1562.
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WOMEN'S HEALTH:
Reports See Progress, Problems, in Trials

Laura Helmuth
Science 2 June 2000: 1562-1563.
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VACCINE DEVELOPMENT:
Radical Steps Urged to Help Underserved

Martin Enserink
Science 2 June 2000: 1563-1564.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Furtive Glances Trigger Radioactive Decay

Charles Seife
Science 2 June 2000: 1564.
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NSF REAUTHORIZATION:
Closed Ethics Case Sparks Dueling Bills

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 2 June 2000: 1564.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Patients Help Track Down Disease Gene

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 2 June 2000: 1565-1567.
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OCEANS POLICY:
Clinton to Expand Marine Reserve Areas

David Malakoff
Science 2 June 2000: 1567.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:
Stephen Straus's Impossible Job

Erik Stokstad
Science 2 June 2000: 1568-1570.
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:
Bastions of Tradition Adapt to Alternative Medicine

Eliot Marshall
Science 2 June 2000: 1571-1572.
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MOUSE GENETICS:
Australian 'Ranch' Gears Up to Mass-Produce Mutant Mice

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 2 June 2000: 1572-1573.
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MARINE CENSUS:
Grants Kick Off Ambitious Count of All Ocean Life

David Malakoff
Science 2 June 2000: 1575-1576.
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NAZI RESEARCH:
Reopening the Darkest Chapter in German Science

Robert Koenig
Science 2 June 2000: 1576-1577.
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ECOLOGY:
Mount St. Helens, Revisited

Richard A. Lovett
Science 2 June 2000: 1578-1579.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 A Gordon Conference Survival Guide

Gregory A. Petsko
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 Determining the 3D Structure of HIV-1 Protease

Stephen Kent, Garland R. Marshall, Alexander Wlodawer;, and Roger M. Perlmutter
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 Annotation of the Human Genome

Mark Gerstein
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 Window on the Early Earth

Timothy M. Kusky;, Wouter Bleeker, and Richard Stern
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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Unreal Science

Kenneth R. Foster
Science 2 June 2000: 1595.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
Approaches to Studying Sex

Montserrat Gomendio
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 MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Nota Bene: The Nanotechnician's Baedeker

Phillip D. Szuromi
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAY ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
A Brief History of Polio Vaccines

Stuart Blume and Ingrid Geesink
Science 2 June 2000: 1593-1594.
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Perspectives

MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS:
Bypassing the Transistor Paradigm

Craig S. Lent
Science 2 June 2000: 1597-1599.
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REACTION DYNAMICS:
Detecting Resonances

George C. Schatz
Science 2 June 2000: 1599-1600.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Flower Arranging in Arabidopsis

Paul F. Devlin and Steve A. Kay
Science 2 June 2000: 1600-1602.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Cradle of Agriculture

Simcha Lev-Yadun, Avi Gopher, and Shahal Abbo
Science 2 June 2000: 1602-1603.
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Review

How Soft Is a Protein? A Protein Dynamics Force Constant Measured by Neutron Scattering

Giuseppe Zaccai
Science 2 June 2000: 1604-1607.
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Research Article

Distinct Roles of CONSTANS Target Genes in Reproductive Development of Arabidopsis

Alon Samach, Hitoshi Onouchi, Scott E. Gold, Gary S. Ditta, Zsuzsanna Schwarz-Sommer, Martin F. Yanofsky, and George Coupland
Science 2 June 2000: 1613-1616.
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Reports

Gone with the Wind: The Origin of S0 Galaxies in Clusters

Vicent Quilis, Ben Moore, and Richard Bower
Science 2 June 2000: 1617-1620.
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Photon-Mediated Hybridization of Frenkel Excitons in Organic Semiconductor Microcavities

David G. Lidzey, Donal D. C. Bradley, Adam Armitage, Steve Walker, and Maurice S. Skolnick
Science 2 June 2000: 1620-1623.
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Light-Driven Motion of Liquids on a Photoresponsive Surface

Kunihiro Ichimura, Sang-Keun Oh, and Masaru Nakagawa
Science 2 June 2000: 1624-1626.
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Raman Spectroscopy of Iron to 152 Gigapascals: Implications for Earth's Inner Core

Sébastien Merkel, Alexander F. Goncharov, Ho-kwang Mao, Philippe Gillet, and Russell J. Hemley
Science 2 June 2000: 1626-1629.
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Accretion of Primitive Planetesimals: Hf-W Isotopic Evidence from Enstatite Chondrites

Der-Chuen Lee and Alex N. Halliday
Science 2 June 2000: 1629-1631.
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A Monoclinic Post-Stishovite Polymorph of Silica in the Shergotty Meteorite

Ahmed El Goresy, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Thomas G. Sharp, Surendra K. Saxena, and Ming Chen
Science 2 June 2000: 1632-1634.
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The Genetic Program of Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Robert L. Phillips, Robin E. Ernst, Brian Brunk, Natalia Ivanova, Mark A. Mahan, Julia K. Deanehan, Kateri A. Moore, G. Christian Overton, and Ihor R. Lemischka
Science 2 June 2000: 1635-1640.
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Role of 4.5S RNA in Assembly of the Bacterial Signal Recognition Particle with Its Receptor

Paul Peluso, Daniel Herschlag, Silke Nock, Douglas M. Freymann, Arthur E. Johnson, and Peter Walter
Science 2 June 2000: 1640-1643.
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Uninterrupted MCM2-7 Function Required for DNA Replication Fork Progression

Karim Labib, José Antonio Tercero, and John F. X. Diffley
Science 2 June 2000: 1643-1647.
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Essential Role for Cholesterol in Entry of Mycobacteria into Macrophages

John Gatfield and Jean Pieters
Science 2 June 2000: 1647-1651.
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Lack of a Role for Iron in the Lyme Disease Pathogen

James E. Posey and Frank C. Gherardini
Science 2 June 2000: 1651-1653.
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Intracellular Parasitism by the Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis Bacterium Through the P-Selectin Ligand, PSGL-1

Michael J. Herron, Curtis M. Nelson, Janet Larson, Karen R. Snapp, Geoffrey S. Kansas, and Jesse L. Goodman
Science 2 June 2000: 1653-1656.
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The Prefrontal Cortex: Response Selection or Maintenance Within Working Memory?

James B. Rowe, Ivan Toni, Oliver Josephs, Richard S. J. Frackowiak, and Richard E. Passingham
Science 2 June 2000: 1656-1660.
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Generalized Potential of Adult Neural Stem Cells

Diana L. Clarke, Clas B. Johansson, Johannes Wilbertz, Biborka Veress, Erik Nilsson, Helena Karlström, Urban Lendahl, and Jonas Frisén
Science 2 June 2000: 1660-1663.
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