This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Conservation in the Real World

A. R. E. Sinclair, Donald Ludwig, and Colin W. Clark
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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

FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Vaccine Theory of AIDS Origins Disputed at Royal Society

Jon Cohen
Science 15 September 2000: 1850-1851.
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NATIONAL SECURITY:
Relief, Rebukes Follow Agreement on Lee

Andrew Lawler
Science 15 September 2000: 1851-1853.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
'Spiders' Channel Mars Polar Ice Cap

Richard A. Lovett
Science 15 September 2000: 1853-1854.
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BIOMEDICINE:
'Glue Grant' Boosts Cell Signaling Consortium

Kathleen Fisher
Science 15 September 2000: 1854.
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U.S. POSTDOCS:
Report Urges Better Treatment, Status

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 15 September 2000: 1854-1855.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Neutron Stars Linked to Celestial Runaway

Govert Schilling
Science 15 September 2000: 1856.
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APPOINTMENTS:
Salk Institute Goes North for New CEO

Robert F. Service
Science 15 September 2000: 1856-1857.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Cancer Fighter's Modus Operandi Revealed

Jean Marx
Science 15 September 2000: 1857-1859.
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EUROPEAN SCIENCE:
Call to Arms for Life Scientists

Robert Koenig
Science 15 September 2000: 1859.
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X-RAY SCIENCE:
French 'Sun' to Rise at Site Near Paris

Michael Balter
Science 15 September 2000: 1859.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ECOLOGY:
Louisiana's Vanishing Wetlands: Going, Going ...

Joel Bourne
Science 15 September 2000: 1860-1863.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans

Robert Koenig
Science 15 September 2000: 1863-1865.
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VIROLOGY:
Evolution on Life's Fringes

Michael Balter
Science 15 September 2000: 1866-1867.
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CLIMATE:
Ice, Mud Point to CO₂ Role in Glacial Cycle

Richard A. Kerr
Science 15 September 2000: 1868.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
High-Tech Lures Hook Into New Marine Microbes

Elizabeth Pennisi
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 The NIH Guidelines on Stem Cell Research

David Korn
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 How to Resolve the Debate on the Origin of AIDS

David M. Hillis
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 Not-So-Simple Minds

A. Frewer and F. Hanefeld
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 Data for an Election Year

Albert H. Teich
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 An Early Taste of Things to Come

Michele Marcus
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 PCBs Are a Health Risk for Humans and Wildlife

Peter S. Ross, Joseph G. Vos, Linda S. Birnbaum, and Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PHYSIOLOGY:
Fuzzing the Boundary of Animal Life

Michael LaBarbera
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ENVIRONMENT:
Looking for Balance

Rena I. Steinzor
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Publication Rights in the Era of Open Data Release Policies

Lee Rowen, Gane K. S. Wong, Robert P. Lane, and Leroy Hood
Science 15 September 2000: 1881.
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
Enhanced: Terrestrial Life--Fungal from the Start?

Meredith Blackwell
Science 15 September 2000: 1884-1885.
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CLONING:
Pigs Is Pigs

Randall S. Prather
Science 15 September 2000: 1886-1887.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Regional Differences in Cortical Organization

Michael S. Gazzaniga
Science 15 September 2000: 1887-1888.
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ASTRONOMY:
Don't We Already Know Everything About Polaris?

Nancy Remage Evans
Science 15 September 2000: 1888-1889.
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Tech.Sight

GENETICS:
Genetic Testing-- Present and Future

Hai Yan, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
Science 15 September 2000: 1890-1892.
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 SOFTWARE:
True to Its Roots

Frank Hoover
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 SOFTWARE:
From Database to Citation

Bruce McCallum
Science 15 September 2000: 1893-1894.
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 SOFTWARE:
Graphing Wizardry

Carol A. Bertrand
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Research Articles

The 100,000-Year Ice-Age Cycle Identified and Found to Lag Temperature, Carbon Dioxide, and Orbital Eccentricity

Nicholas J. Shackleton
Science 15 September 2000: 1897-1902.
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Bacterial Rhodopsin: Evidence for a New Type of Phototrophy in the Sea

Oded Béjà, L. Aravind, Eugene V. Koonin, Marcelino T. Suzuki, Andrew Hadd, Linh P. Nguyen, Stevan B. Jovanovich, Christian M. Gates, Robert A. Feldman, John L. Spudich, Elena N. Spudich, and Edward F. DeLong
Science 15 September 2000: 1902-1906.
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Reports

Optically Induced Entanglement of Excitons in a Single Quantum Dot

Gang Chen, N. H. Bonadeo, D. G. Steel, D. Gammon, D. S. Katzer, D. Park, and L. J. Sham
Science 15 September 2000: 1906-1909.
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Evidence That the Reactivity of the Martian Soil Is Due to Superoxide Ions

A. S. Yen, S. S. Kim, M. H. Hecht, M. S. Frant, and B. Murray
Science 15 September 2000: 1909-1912.
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Osmium Isotopic Evidence for Mesozoic Removal of Lithospheric Mantle Beneath the Sierra Nevada, California

Cin-Ty Lee, Qingzhu Yin, Roberta L. Rudnick, John T. Chesley, and Stein B. Jacobsen
Science 15 September 2000: 1912-1916.
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A High-Resolution Millennial Record of the South Asian Monsoon from Himalayan Ice Cores

L. G. Thompson, T. Yao, E. Mosley-Thompson, M. E. Davis, K. A. Henderson, and P.-N. Lin
Science 15 September 2000: 1916-1919.
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Glomalean Fungi from the Ordovician

Dirk Redecker, Robin Kodner, and Linda E. Graham
Science 15 September 2000: 1920-1921.
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Greenhouse Gases in Intensive Agriculture: Contributions of Individual Gases to the Radiative Forcing of the Atmosphere

G. Philip Robertson, Eldor A. Paul, and Richard R. Harwood
Science 15 September 2000: 1922-1925.
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Signal Transduction Through Prion Protein

S. Mouillet-Richard, M. Ermonval, C. Chebassier, J. L. Laplanche, S. Lehmann, J. M. Launay, and O. Kellermann
Science 15 September 2000: 1925-1928.
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A Link Between RNA Interference and Nonsense-Mediated Decay in Caenorhabditis elegans

Mary Ellen Domeier, Daniel P. Morse, Scott W. Knight, Michael Portereiko, Brenda L. Bass, and Susan E. Mango
Science 15 September 2000: 1928-1930.
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Suppression of Mutations in Mitochondrial DNA by tRNAs Imported from the Cytoplasm

O. A. Kolesnikova, N. S. Entelis, H. Mireau, T. D. Fox, R. P. Martin, and I. A. Tarassov
Science 15 September 2000: 1931-1933.
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The Productive Conformation of Arachidonic Acid Bound to Prostaglandin Synthase

M. G. Malkowski, S. L. Ginell, W. L. Smith, and R. M. Garavito
Science 15 September 2000: 1933-1937.
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Structural Mechanism for STI-571 Inhibition of Abelson Tyrosine Kinase

Thomas Schindler, William Bornmann, Patricia Pellicena, W. Todd Miller, Bayard Clarkson, and John Kuriyan
Science 15 September 2000: 1938-1942.
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Respiration and Parturition Affected by Conditional Overexpression of the Ca²⁺-Activated K⁺ Channel Subunit, SK3

Chris T. Bond, Rolf Sprengel, John M. Bissonnette, Walter A. Kaufmann, David Pribnow, Torben Neelands, Thorsten Storck, Manfred Baetscher, Jasna Jerecic, James Maylie, Hans-Günther Knaus, Peter H. Seeburg, and John P. Adelman
Science 15 September 2000: 1942-1946.
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Interhemispheric Asymmetries of the Modular Structure in Human Temporal Cortex

Ralf A. W. Galuske, Wolfgang Schlote, Hansjürgen Bratzke, and Wolf Singer
Science 15 September 2000: 1946-1949.
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Technical Comments

 Temporal Trends in Deep Ocean Redfield Ratios

Jia-Zhong Zhang, Calvin W. Mordy, Louis I. Gordon, Andy Ross, Hernan E. Garcia, Markus Pahlow, and Ulf Riebesell
Science 15 September 2000: 1839.
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