This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Coming Aboard

Donald Kennedy
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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

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Most-Common Meteorites Find a Home Among the Asteroids

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 June 2000: 1714-1715.
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PLANT GENETICS:
From Genome to Functional Genomics

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 June 2000: 1715.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Disease Group Invests in Do-It-Yourself Drugs

Eliot Marshall
Science 9 June 2000: 1715-1717.
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BIOMECHANICS:
Geckos Climb by the Hairs of Their Toes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 June 2000: 1717-1718.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Trigger Found for Synapse Formation

Trisha Gura
Science 9 June 2000: 1718-1719.
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GERMAN SCIENCE:
Max Planck Charts New Path

Robert Koenig
Science 9 June 2000: 1719-1721.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
New Feathered Dino Firms Up Bird Links

Dennis Normile
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANIMAL CLONING:
Clones: A Hard Act to Follow

Elizabeth Pennisi and Gretchen Vogel
Science 9 June 2000: 1722-1727.
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ANIMAL CLONING:
Profits From Precious Pets

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 June 2000: 1726.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Learning to Dissect Dinosaurs--Digitally

Erik Stokstad
Science 9 June 2000: 1728-1732.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossils Made to Order, Any Size

Erik Stokstad
Science 9 June 2000: 1729.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
CT Sleuthing Uncovers Fossil Misfits

Erik Stokstad
Science 9 June 2000: 1731.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Stress: The Invisible Hand in Eastern Europe's Death Rates

Richard Stone
Science 9 June 2000: 1732-1733.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Dental Care in Chimps

W. C. McGrew
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 Questioning Placebo Controls

Nell L. Farr
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 Family Planning Programs and National Prosperity

Amy Coen, Richard P. Cincotta;, David Bloom, and David Canning
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 Health Risks of GM Foods: Many Opinions but Few Data

Jose L. Domingo
Science 9 June 2000: 1748-1749.
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 Scope of Olefin Polymerization Nickel Catalysts

K. Aleksander Ostoja Starzewski;, Todd R. Younkin, Eric F. Connor, Jason I. Henderson, Stefan K. Friedrich, Robert H. Grubbs, and Donald A. Bansleben
Science 9 June 2000: 1749-1751.
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 Retraction

George Gaskell, Martin Bauer, John Durant, and Nicholas Allum
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Counter-Revolutionary Kuhn?

Joseph Rouse
Science 9 June 2000: 1755-1756.
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MEDICINE:
Cancer Research by Way of Metaphor

John Cairns
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CANCER:
Preventing Cervical Cancer

Joanna M. Cain and Mary K. Howett
Science 9 June 2000: 1753-1755.
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Perspectives

AIDS:
Origins of HIV

David M. Hillis
Science 9 June 2000: 1757-1759.
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DEVELOPMENT:
PARallels in Axis Formation

Jason Morris, Ruth Lehmann, and Caryn Navarro
Science 9 June 2000: 1759-1760.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Salty Old Rocks

Ulrich Ott
Science 9 June 2000: 1761-1762.
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ANTIFERROMAGNETISM:
Taking a Very Close Look at Magnetic Structures

Andreas Scholl
Science 9 June 2000: 1762-1763.
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY:
Counting the Cost of Deforestation

Robert Bonnie, Stephan Schwartzman, Michael Oppenheimer, and Janine Bloomfield
Science 9 June 2000: 1763-1764.
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Pathways of Discovery

Cloning: Pathways to a Pluripotent Future

Anne McLaren
Science 9 June 2000: 1775-1780.
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Art Imitates Life

Anne McLaren
Science 9 June 2000: 1777.
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Stem Cells: Golden Opportunities With Ethical Baggage

Anne McLaren
Science 9 June 2000: 1778.
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Reviews

Neuronal Plasticity: Increasing the Gain in Pain

Clifford J. Woolf and Michael W. Salter
Science 9 June 2000: 1765-1768.
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Psychological and Neural Mechanisms of the Affective Dimension of Pain

Donald D. Price
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Research Articles

Timing the Ancestor of the HIV-1 Pandemic Strains

B. Korber, M. Muldoon, J. Theiler, F. Gao, R. Gupta, A. Lapedes, B. H. Hahn, S. Wolinsky, and T. Bhattacharya
Science 9 June 2000: 1789-1796.
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Kinesin Superfamily Motor Protein KIF17 and mLin-10 in NMDA Receptor-Containing Vesicle Transport

Mitsutoshi Setou, Terunaga Nakagawa, Dae-Hyun Seog, and Nobutaka Hirokawa
Science 9 June 2000: 1796-1802.
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Reports

Forming Supramolecular Networks from Nanoscale Rods in Binary, Phase-Separating Mixtures

Gongwen Peng, Feng Qiu, Valeriy V. Ginzburg, David Jasnow, and Anna C. Balazs
Science 9 June 2000: 1802-1804.
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Real-Space Imaging of Two-Dimensional Antiferromagnetism on the Atomic Scale

S. Heinze, M. Bode, A. Kubetzka, O. Pietzsch, X. Nie, S. Blügel, and R. Wiesendanger
Science 9 June 2000: 1805-1808.
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A Nanoplotter with Both Parallel and Serial Writing Capabilities

Seunghun Hong and Chad A. Mirkin
Science 9 June 2000: 1808-1811.
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Electronic Structure of Mott Insulators Studied by Inelastic X-ray Scattering

M. Z. Hasan, E. D. Isaacs, Z.-X. Shen, L. L. Miller, K. Tsutsui, T. Tohyama, and S. Maekawa
Science 9 June 2000: 1811-1814.
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Millennial-Scale Instability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Glaciation

Sharon L. Kanfoush, David A. Hodell, Christopher D. Charles, Thomas P. Guilderson, P. Graham Mortyn, and Ulysses S. Ninnemann
Science 9 June 2000: 1815-1819.
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Extinct ¹²⁹I in Halite from a Primitive Meteorite: Evidence for Evaporite Formation in the Early Solar System

James Whitby, Ray Burgess, Grenville Turner, Jamie Gilmour, and John Bridges
Science 9 June 2000: 1819-1821.
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Atomic Structure of PDE4: Insights into Phosphodiesterase Mechanism and Specificity

Robert X. Xu, Anne M. Hassell, Dana Vanderwall, Millard H. Lambert, William D. Holmes, Michael A. Luther, Warren J. Rocque, Michael V. Milburn, Yingdong Zhao, Hengming Ke, and Robert T. Nolte
Science 9 June 2000: 1822-1825.
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Signaling Specificity by Frizzled Receptors in Drosophila

Michael Boutros, Jozsef Mihaly, Tewis Bouwmeester, and Marek Mlodzik
Science 9 June 2000: 1825-1828.
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Economic Incentives for Rain Forest Conservation Across Scales

C. Kremen, J. O. Niles, M. G. Dalton, G. C. Daily, P. R. Ehrlich, J. P. Fay, D. Grewal, and R. P. Guillery
Science 9 June 2000: 1828-1832.
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mGluR1 in Cerebellar Purkinje Cells Essential for Long-Term Depression, Synapse Elimination, and Motor Coordination

Taeko Ichise, Masanobu Kano, Kouichi Hashimoto, Dai Yanagihara, Kazuki Nakao, Ryuichi Shigemoto, Motoya Katsuki, and Atsu Aiba
Science 9 June 2000: 1832-1835.
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Dissociating the Role of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Cognitive Control

Angus W. MacDonald, Jonathan D. Cohen, V. Andrew Stenger, and Cameron S. Carter
Science 9 June 2000: 1835-1838.
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