This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Helping Africa Feed Itself

Gordon Conway and Susan Sechler
Science 8 September 2000: 1685.
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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 8 September 2000: 1777.

News of the Week

2001 BUDGET:
Research Gets Hefty Boost in 2001 Defense Budget

David Malakoff
Science 8 September 2000: 1662-1663.
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CANNIBALISM:
Molecule Shows Anasazi Ate Their Enemies

Constance Holden
Science 8 September 2000: 1663.
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SPONGIFORM DISEASE:
Experts Downplay New vCJD Fears

Michael Balter
Science 8 September 2000: 1663-1666.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Brain Cells Turning Over a New Leaf

Gretchen Vogel
Science 8 September 2000: 1666.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Biggest Extinction Hit Land and Sea

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 September 2000: 1666-1667.
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FRENCH SCIENCE:
New CNRS Chief Hopes to Deliver on Science

Michael Balter
Science 8 September 2000: 1667-1669.
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JAPANESE BUDGET:
Big Hikes Sought for Life Sciences, IT

Dennis Normile
Science 8 September 2000: 1669.
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CIVIL LIBERTIES:
Academies Fault Reno Over Handling of Lee

David Malakoff
Science 8 September 2000: 1669.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MEDICINE:
DNA Arrays Reveal Cancer in Its Many Forms

Jean Marx
Science 8 September 2000: 1670-1672.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Protein Arrays Step Out of DNA's Shadow

Robert F. Service
Science 8 September 2000: 1673.
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BIOMEDICINE IN CANADA:
Virtual Institutes Gear Up to Do Real Research

Wayne Kondro
Science 8 September 2000: 1675.
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ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT:
New Survey to Collect Global News You Can Use

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 8 September 2000: 1676-1677.
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ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT:
Ecologists Hope to Avoid the Mistakes of Previous Assessment

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 8 September 2000: 1677.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 8 September 2000: 1687.
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 Academia and Industry Need A New Marriage Contract

Spyros Andreopoulos
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 At the Crocodilian Heart of the Matter

Craig Franklin, Frank Seebacher, Gordon C. Grigg, Michael Axelsson;, Dale A. Russell, Michael K. Stoskopf, Paul E. Fisher, and Reese E. Barrick
Science 8 September 2000: 1687-1688.
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 U.S. National Missile Defense: Looking at the Whole Package

André Gsponer
Science 8 September 2000: 1688.
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 Early Germinative Ideas on the Origins of Infectious Disease

Arthur Kelman, Luis Sequeira, Eugene W. Nester;, Arthur J. Silvergleid;, and Joshua Lederberg
Science 8 September 2000: 1689-1691.
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 Still Havens for Coral Reefs

Walter Starck
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossils, G-Men, Money, and Museums

John Pojeta Jr.
Science 8 September 2000: 1695-1696.
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CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: Organizing the Elements

J. Uppenbrink
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE:
The Ethiopia Food Crisis--Uses and Limits of Climate Forecasts

Kenneth Broad and Shardul Agrawala
Science 8 September 2000: 1693-1694.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE AND MALARIA:
Enhanced: Temperatures Without Fevers?

Chris Dye and Paul Reiter
Science 8 September 2000: 1697-1698.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Taking the Temperature of Past Ocean Surfaces

Dirk Nürnberg
Science 8 September 2000: 1698-1699.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Deconstructing Myotonic Dystrophy

Stephen J. Tapscott
Science 8 September 2000: 1701-1702.
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SOLID STATE PHYSICS:
A Question of Dimensions

Walt de Heer
Science 8 September 2000: 1702-1703.
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EVOLUTION:
When Did Photosynthesis Emerge on Earth?

David J. Des Marais
Science 8 September 2000: 1703-1705.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
RNA Editing AIDs Antibody Diversification?

Michael S. Neuberger and James Scott
Science 8 September 2000: 1705-1706.
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 BIOMEDICINE:
Nota Bene: Sleep, Eat, and Be Merry

O. Smith
Science 8 September 2000: 1706.
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Pathways of Discovery

The Incredible Life and Times of Biological Cells

Paul Nurse
Science 8 September 2000: 1711-1716.
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Research Articles

Climate Impact of Late Quaternary Equatorial Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Variations

David W. Lea, Dorothy K. Pak, and Howard J. Spero
Science 8 September 2000: 1719-1724.
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Molecular Evidence for the Early Evolution of Photosynthesis

Jin Xiong, William M. Fischer, Kazuhito Inoue, Masaaki Nakahara, and Carl E. Bauer
Science 8 September 2000: 1724-1730.
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Reports

Quantized Phonon Spectrum of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes

J. Hone, B. Batlogg, Z. Benes, A. T. Johnson, and J. E. Fischer
Science 8 September 2000: 1730-1733.
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Locally Resonant Sonic Materials

Zhengyou Liu, Xixiang Zhang, Yiwei Mao, Y. Y. Zhu, Zhiyu Yang, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng
Science 8 September 2000: 1734-1736.
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Nonlinear Simulations of Jupiter's 5-Micron Hot Spots

Adam P. Showman and Timothy E. Dowling
Science 8 September 2000: 1737-1740.
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Altered River Morphology in South Africa Related to the Permian-Triassic Extinction

Peter D. Ward, David R. Montgomery, and Roger Smith
Science 8 September 2000: 1740-1743.
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Historical Trends in Lake and River Ice Cover in the Northern Hemisphere

John J. Magnuson, Dale M. Robertson, Barbara J. Benson, Randolph H. Wynne, David M. Livingstone, Tadashi Arai, Raymond A. Assel, Roger G. Barry, Virginia Card, Esko Kuusisto, Nick G. Granin, Terry D. Prowse, Kenton M. Stewart, and Valery S. Vuglinski
Science 8 September 2000: 1743-1746.
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Northridge Earthquake Damage Caused by Geologic Focusing of Seismic Waves

Paul M. Davis, Justin L. Rubinstein, Kelly H. Liu, Stephen S. Gao, and Leon Knopoff
Science 8 September 2000: 1746-1750.
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Subgroup of Reproductive Functions of Progesterone Mediated by Progesterone Receptor-B Isoform

Biserka Mulac-Jericevic, Robert A. Mullinax, Francesco J. DeMayo, John P. Lydon, and Orla M. Conneely
Science 8 September 2000: 1751-1754.
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Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells Reprogrammed to Become Multipotential CNS Stem Cells

Toru Kondo and Martin Raff
Science 8 September 2000: 1754-1757.
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Scanometric DNA Array Detection with Nanoparticle Probes

T. Andrew Taton, Chad A. Mirkin, and Robert L. Letsinger
Science 8 September 2000: 1757-1760.
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Printing Proteins as Microarrays for High-Throughput Function Determination

Gavin MacBeath and Stuart L. Schreiber
Science 8 September 2000: 1760-1763.
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The Global Spread of Malaria in a Future, Warmer World

David J. Rogers and Sarah E. Randolph
Science 8 September 2000: 1763-1766.
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Cholera Dynamics and El Niño-Southern Oscillation

Mercedes Pascual, Xavier Rodó, Stephen P. Ellner, Rita Colwell, and Menno J. Bouma
Science 8 September 2000: 1766-1769.
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Myotonic Dystrophy in Transgenic Mice Expressing an Expanded CUG Repeat

Ami Mankodi, Eric Logigian, Linda Callahan, Carolyn McClain, Robert White, Don Henderson, Matt Krym, and Charles A. Thornton
Science 8 September 2000: 1769-1772.
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Fairness Versus Reason in the Ultimatum Game

Martin A. Nowak, Karen M. Page, and Karl Sigmund
Science 8 September 2000: 1773-1775.
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Technical Comments

 HSV Latency-Associated Transcript and Neuronal Apoptosis

R. L. Thompson, N. M. Sawtell, Steven L. Wechsler, Guey-Chuen Perng, Homayon Ghiasi, Anthony B. Nesburn, and Clinton Jones
Science 8 September 2000: 1651.
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