This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Enhancing the U.S. Postdoctoral Experience

Maxine F. Singer
Science 22 September 2000: 2047.
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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

PARTICLE PHYSICS:
CERN Gives Higgs Hunters Extra Month to Collect Data

Oliver Morton
Science 22 September 2000: 2014-2015.
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NIH:
Imaging Institute Picks Up Momentum

Kathy Fisher
Science 22 September 2000: 2015-2017.
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VIROLOGY:
Canine Virus Blamed in Caspian Seal Deaths

Richard Stone
Science 22 September 2000: 2017-2018.
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U.S. SPACE SCIENCE:
Earmarks, Rising Costs Threaten NASA Missions

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 September 2000: 2018.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Europe Set to Work on Hubble's Replacement

Alexander Hellemans
Science 22 September 2000: 2019.
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EUROPEAN SCIENCE:
Research Behemoth Slated for Overhaul

Robert Koenig
Science 22 September 2000: 2019.
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BIOPHYSICS:
For Certain Shrimp, Life's a Snap

Kathryn Brown
Science 22 September 2000: 2020-2021.
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ARCHAELOGY:
A Victim of the Black Sea Flood Found

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 September 2000: 2021-2022.
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BROOKHAVEN LAB:
Forbes Loses in Fallout From Reactor Fight

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 September 2000: 2021.
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MEDICAL ETHICS:
Moratorium Urged on Germ Line Gene Therapy

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 September 2000: 2023.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE
Twins for the Themis Asteroid Family

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 September 2000: 2023.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Soft Money's Hard Realities

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 September 2000: 2024-2028.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Satisfaction Sans Status

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 September 2000: 2025.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Geology Couple Plots a Path to Success

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 September 2000: 2027.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Look Before You Leap

Marcia Barinaga
Science 22 September 2000: 2028.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
New Way Found to Study Closely Related Proteins

Evelyn Strauss
Science 22 September 2000: 2029-2031.
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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING:
Global Warming, Insects Take the Stage at Snowbird

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 22 September 2000: 2031-2032.
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DUTCH SCIENCE:
On a Slippery Slope to Mediocrity?

Martin Enserink
Science 22 September 2000: 2033.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 22 September 2000: 2049.
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 China's New Forest Policy

Ming Xu, Ye Qi, Peng Gong;, Guang Zhao, Guofan Shao, Peichang Zhang, and Guangxin Bai
Science 22 September 2000: 2049-2050.
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 Acceptable Evidence

Stephen M. Smith
Science 22 September 2000: 2050-2051.
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 Plutonium Immobilization and Radiation Effects

William J. Weber and Rodney C. Ewing
Science 22 September 2000: 2051-2052.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 22 September 2000: 2052.
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Books et al.

HUMAN ECOLOGY:
Pushing Buffalo to the Brink

James E. Sherow
Science 22 September 2000: 2056.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Wandering Genes

Marta Mirazón Lahr
Science 22 September 2000: 2057.
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 Books Received

Science 22 September 2000: 2057.

Policy Forum

DISASTER MANAGEMENT:
U.S. Policies Pertaining to Weather and Climate Extremes

Stanley A. Changnon and David R. Easterling
Science 22 September 2000: 2053-2055.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Managing Forests After Kyoto

Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Christian Wirth, and Martin Heimann
Science 22 September 2000: 2058-2059.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Ubiquitination--More Than Two to Tango

Claudio A. P. Joazeiro and Tony Hunter
Science 22 September 2000: 2061-2062.
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AGING:
Aging, Chromatin, and Food Restriction--Connecting the Dots

Judith Campisi
Science 22 September 2000: 2062-2063.
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MESOSCOPIC PHYSICS:
Quantum Dots as Tunable Kondo Impurities

Jan von Delft
Science 22 September 2000: 2064-2065.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Asteroids Come of Age

Richard P. Binzel
Science 22 September 2000: 2065-2066.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Enhanced: Staying Slim with Insulin in Mind

Michael W. Schwartz
Science 22 September 2000: 2066-2067.
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Review

Climate Extremes: Observations, Modeling, and Impacts

David R. Easterling, Gerald A. Meehl, Camille Parmesan, Stanley A. Changnon, Thomas R. Karl, and Linda O. Mearns
Science 22 September 2000: 2068-2074.
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Reports

Radio Science Results During the NEAR-Shoemaker Spacecraft Rendezvous with Eros

D. K. Yeomans, P. G. Antreasian, J.-P. Barriot, S. R. Chesley, D. W. Dunham, R. W. Farquhar, J. D. Giorgini, C. E. Helfrich, A. S. Konopliv, J. V. McAdams, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., D. J. Scheeres, P. C. Thomas, J. Veverka, and B. G. Williams
Science 22 September 2000: 2085-2088.
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NEAR at Eros: Imaging and Spectral Results

J. Veverka, M. Robinson, P. Thomas, S. Murchie, J. F. Bell, III, N. Izenberg, C. Chapman, A. Harch, M. Bell, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, B. Clark, D. Domingue, D. Dunham, R. Farquhar, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, H. Li, P. Lucey, M. Malin, P. Martin, L. McFadden, W. J. Merline, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, D. Wellnitz, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yeomans
Science 22 September 2000: 2088-2097.
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The Shape of 433 Eros from the NEAR-Shoemaker Laser Rangefinder

Maria T. Zuber, David E. Smith, Andrew F. Cheng, James B. Garvin, Oded Aharonson, Timothy D. Cole, Peter J. Dunn, Yanping Guo, Frank G. Lemoine, Gregory A. Neumann, David D. Rowlands, and Mark H. Torrence
Science 22 September 2000: 2097-2101.
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The Elemental Composition of Asteroid 433 Eros: Results of the NEAR-Shoemaker X-ray Spectrometer

J. I. Trombka, S. W. Squyres, J. Brückner, W. V. Boynton, R. C. Reedy, T. J. McCoy, P. Gorenstein, L. G. Evans, J. R. Arnold, R. D. Starr, L. R. Nittler, M. E. Murphy, I. Mikheeva, R. L. McNutt, Jr., T. P. McClanahan, E. McCartney, J. O. Goldsten, R. E. Gold, S. R. Floyd, P. E. Clark, T. H. Burbine, J. S. Bhangoo, S. H. Bailey, and M. Petaev
Science 22 September 2000: 2101-2105.
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The Kondo Effect in the Unitary Limit

W. G. van der Wiel, S. De Franceschi, T. Fujisawa, J. M. Elzerman, S. Tarucha, and L. P. Kouwenhoven
Science 22 September 2000: 2105-2108.
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Graphical Evolution of the Arnold Web: From Order to Chaos

Claude Froeschlé, Massimiliano Guzzo, and Elena Lega
Science 22 September 2000: 2108-2110.
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Mate Selection and the Evolution of Highly Polymorphic Self/Nonself Recognition Genes

Richard K. Grosberg and Michael W. Hart
Science 22 September 2000: 2111-2114.
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How Snapping Shrimp Snap: Through Cavitating Bubbles

Michel Versluis, Barbara Schmitz, Anna von der Heydt, and Detlef Lohse
Science 22 September 2000: 2114-2117.
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Detecting and Measuring Cotranslational Protein Degradation in Vivo

Glenn C. Turner and Alexander Varshavsky
Science 22 September 2000: 2117-2120.
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A Function for Kinesin I in the Posterior Transport of oskar mRNA and Staufen Protein

Robert P. Brendza, Laura R. Serbus, Joseph B. Duffy, and William M. Saxton
Science 22 September 2000: 2120-2122.
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Role of Brain Insulin Receptor in Control of Body Weight and Reproduction

Jens C. Brüning, Dinesh Gautam, Deborah J. Burks, Jennifer Gillette, Markus Schubert, Paul C. Orban, Rüdiger Klein, Wilhelm Krone, Dirk Müller-Wieland, and C. Ronald Kahn
Science 22 September 2000: 2122-2125.
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Requirement of NAD and SIR2 for Life-Span Extension by Calorie Restriction in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Su-Ju Lin, Pierre-Antoine Defossez, and Leonard Guarente
Science 22 September 2000: 2126-2128.
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Topologically Linked Protein Rings in the Bacteriophage HK97 Capsid

William R. Wikoff, Lars Liljas, Robert L. Duda, Hiro Tsuruta, Roger W. Hendrix, and John E. Johnson
Science 22 September 2000: 2129-2133.
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Activation of the DNA Replication Checkpoint Through RNA Synthesis by Primase

W. Matthew Michael, Robert Ott, Ellen Fanning, and John Newport
Science 22 September 2000: 2133-2137.
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Patterning of the Zebrafish Retina by a Wave of Sonic Hedgehog Activity

Carl J. Neumann and Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard
Science 22 September 2000: 2137-2139.
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Technical Comments

 Viral Escape and the Failure of Cellular Immune Responses

Paul Klenerman, Franziska Lechner, Maria Kantzanou, Adrian Ciurea, Hans Hengartner, Rolf Zinkernagel, Patrizia Farci, Angelo Balestrieri, Giacomo Diaz, Robert H. Purcell, and Harvey J. Alter
Science 22 September 2000: 2003.
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