This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science and Secrecy

Donald Kennedy
Science 4 August 2000: 724.
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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

CLINICAL RESEARCH:
Flawed Cancer Study Leads to Shake-Up at University of Oklahoma

David Malakoff
Science 4 August 2000: 706-707.
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NASA LIFE SCIENCES:
An Improvement in Vital Signs

Andrew Lawler
Science 4 August 2000: 707-709.
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X-RAY ASTRONOMY:
Solar Storm Knocks Out Japanese Satellite

Dennis Normile
Science 4 August 2000: 709.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
USDA to Commercialize 'Terminator' Technology

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 4 August 2000: 709-710.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Atmosphere Drives Earth's Tipsiness

Richard A. Kerr
Science 4 August 2000: 710.
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AIR POLLUTION:
Panel Backs EPA and 'Six Cities' Study

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 4 August 2000: 711.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Ehlers Bill Wins Bipartisan Backing

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 4 August 2000: 713.
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EUROPEAN SCIENCE:
U.K. Unveils 'Brain Gain' Initiative

Kirstie Urquhart
Science 4 August 2000: 713.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A Wetter, Younger Mars Emerging

Richard A. Kerr
Science 4 August 2000: 714-716.
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ECOLOGY:
Can Science Rescue Salmon?

Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer
Science 4 August 2000: 716-719.
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ECOLOGY:
The Other H's

Charles C. Mann and Mark L. Plummer
Science 4 August 2000: 718.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Duke Study Faults Overuse of Stimulants for Children

Eliot Marshall
Science 4 August 2000: 721.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 4 August 2000: 725.
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 Small Telescopes, Big Results

John C. Barentine;, Frank Fekel, and Gregory W. Henry
Science 4 August 2000: 725.
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 Shakespearian Views on Choosing Associates

Tom Davidson
Science 4 August 2000: 725.
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 Preservation of DNA From Endangered Species

Phillip A. Morin;, Hendrik N. Poinar, Geoffrey Eglinton;, Oliver A. Ryder, Anne McLaren, Ya-Ping Zhang, Sydney Brenner, and Kurt Benirschke
Science 4 August 2000: 725-727.
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 Stranger than Science Fiction

Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Science 4 August 2000: 727.
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Books et al.

ECOLOGY:
Living at Extremes

Kathleen A. Campbell
Science 4 August 2000: 730-731.
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VIROLOGY:
From Infectious Filtrate

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Science 4 August 2000: 731.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Of Comets and Meteors

Fred L. Whipple
Science 4 August 2000: 728.
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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Taking Responsibility

Joseph Rotblat
Science 4 August 2000: 729.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
Bacterial Spelunkers

Matthew A. Mulvey and Scott J. Hultgren
Science 4 August 2000: 732-733.
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STRUCTURE:
Rhodopsin Sees the Light

Henry R. Bourne and Elaine C. Meng
Science 4 August 2000: 733-734.
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CELL CYCLE:
Replication Meets Cohesion

Kohta Takahashi and Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Science 4 August 2000: 735-736.
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BIOMINERALIZATION:
Enhanced: Naturally Aligned Nanocrystals

A. P. Alivisatos
Science 4 August 2000: 736-737.
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CHEMISTRY:
New Chemical Bricks Made Through Phosphorus Tricks

Hansjörg Grützmacher
Science 4 August 2000: 737-738.
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Research Article

Crystal Structure of Rhodopsin: A G Protein-Coupled Receptor

Krzysztof Palczewski, Takashi Kumasaka, Tetsuya Hori, Craig A. Behnke, Hiroyuki Motoshima, Brian A. Fox, Isolde Le Trong, David C. Teller, Tetsuji Okada, Ronald E. Stenkamp, Masaki Yamamoto, and Masashi Miyano
Science 4 August 2000: 739-745.
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Reports

Ferromagnetism Stabilized by Lattice Distortion at the Surface of the p-Wave Superconductor Sr₂RuO₄

R. Matzdorf, Z. Fang, Ismail, Jiandi Zhang, T. Kimura, Y. Tokura, K. Terakura, and E. W. Plummer
Science 4 August 2000: 746-748.
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Radiation Tolerance of Complex Oxides

K. E. Sickafus, L. Minervini, R. W. Grimes, J. A. Valdez, M. Ishimaru, F. Li, K. J. McClellan, and T. Hartmann
Science 4 August 2000: 748-751.
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Aggregation-Based Crystal Growth and Microstructure Development in Natural Iron Oxyhydroxide Biomineralization Products

Jillian F. Banfield, Susan A. Welch, Hengzhong Zhang, Tamara Thomsen Ebert, and R. Lee Penn
Science 4 August 2000: 751-754.
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A Cyclic Carbanionic Valence Isomer of a Carbocation: Diphosphino Analogs of Diaminocarbocations

Tsuyoshi Kato, Heinz Gornitzka, Antoine Baceiredo, Wolfgang W. Schoeller, and Guy Bertrand
Science 4 August 2000: 754-756.
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Atmospheric Influence of Earth's Earliest Sulfur Cycle

James Farquhar, Huiming Bao, and Mark Thiemens
Science 4 August 2000: 756-758.
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Phosphate Depletion in the Western North Atlantic Ocean

Jingfeng Wu, William Sunda, Edward A. Boyle, and David M. Karl
Science 4 August 2000: 759-762.
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The Response of Two Contrasting Limestone Grasslands to Simulated Climate Change

J. Philip Grime, Valerie K. Brown, Ken Thompson, Gregory J. Masters, Susan H. Hillier, Ian P. Clarke, Andrew P. Askew, David Corker, and Jonathan P. Kielty
Science 4 August 2000: 762-765.
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CikA, a Bacteriophytochrome That Resets the Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock

Oliver Schmitz, Mitsunori Katayama, Stanly B. Williams, Takao Kondo, and Susan S. Golden
Science 4 August 2000: 765-768.
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Cloning of the Arabidopsis Clock Gene TOC1, an Autoregulatory Response Regulator Homolog

Carl Strayer, Tokitaka Oyama, Thomas F. Schultz, Ramanujam Raman, David E. Somers, Paloma Más, Satchidananda Panda, Joel A. Kreps, and Steve A. Kay
Science 4 August 2000: 768-771.
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Pif1p Helicase, a Catalytic Inhibitor of Telomerase in Yeast

J.-Q. Zhou, E. K. Monson, S.-C. Teng, V. P. Schulz, and V. A. Zakian
Science 4 August 2000: 771-774.
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Pol : A DNA Polymerase Required for Sister Chromatid Cohesion

Zhenghe Wang, Irene B. Castaño, Alejandro De Las Peñas, Carrie Adams, and Michael F. Christman
Science 4 August 2000: 774-779.
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Cell-Cell Signaling and Movement by the Floral Transcription Factors LEAFY and APETALA1

Allen Sessions, Martin F. Yanofsky, and Detlef Weigel
Science 4 August 2000: 779-781.
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Role of Adenine Nucleotide Translocator 1 in mtDNA Maintenance

Jyrki Kaukonen, Jukka K. Juselius, Valeria Tiranti, Aija Kyttälä, Massimo Zeviani, Giacomo P. Comi, Sirkka Keränen, Leena Peltonen, and Anu Suomalainen
Science 4 August 2000: 782-785.
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Involvement of Cellular Caveolae in Bacterial Entry into Mast Cells

Jeoung-Sook Shin, Zhimin Gao, and Soman N. Abraham
Science 4 August 2000: 785-788.
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