This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Decreasing Reliability of Energy

Philip H. Abelson
Science 3 November 2000: 931.
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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

SCHOLARLY JOURNALS:
Librarians Seek to Block Merger of Scientific Publishing Giants

David Malakoff
Science 3 November 2000: 910-911.
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U.K. MAD COW DISEASE:
Report Flags Hazards of Risk Assessment

Helen Gavaghan
Science 3 November 2000: 911-913.
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GENE SEQUENCING:
China, Denmark Team Up to Tackle the Pig

Hui Li
Science 3 November 2000: 913-914.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
New Site Suggests Anasazi Exodus

Mark Muro
Science 3 November 2000: 914.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Listeria Enlists Host in Its Attack

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 3 November 2000: 914-915.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
A More Cautious NASA Sets Plans for Mars

Andrew Lawler
Science 3 November 2000: 915-916.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Long-Wavelength Lasers Sniff Out New Uses

Charles Seife
Science 3 November 2000: 916-917.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
First Upright Vertebrate Lived Fast, Died Young

Erik Stokstad
Science 3 November 2000: 917.
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SCIENCE AND COMMERCE:
Digital Music Safeguard May Need Retuning

Charles Seife
Science 3 November 2000: 917-919.
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INDIA:
New Guidelines Promise Stronger Bioethics

Pallava Bagla
Science 3 November 2000: 919.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SAVING KYOTO:
Can the Kyoto Climate Treaty Be Saved From Itself?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 3 November 2000: 920-921.
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SAVING KYOTO:
A Well-Intentioned Cleanup Gets Mixed Reviews

Richard A. Kerr
Science 3 November 2000: 921.
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SAVING KYOTO:
Soaking Up Carbon in Forests and Fields

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 3 November 2000: 922.
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EMERGING DISEASES:
On the Trail of Ebola and Marburg Viruses

Michael Balter
Science 3 November 2000: 923-925.
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HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS:
Gamma Ray Bursts May Pack a One-Two Punch

Govert Schilling
Science 3 November 2000: 926-927.
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HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS:
X-ray Satellites Seek Clues to Bursts

Govert Schilling
Science 3 November 2000: 927.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 3 November 2000: 933.
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 Presidential Politics: Constrained by Complexity?

Erik A. Schultes
Science 3 November 2000: 933.
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 Of Salmon and Dams

Jeremy Collie, Saul Saila, Carl Walters, Stephen Carpenter;, Charles C. Mann, and Mark L. Plummer
Science 3 November 2000: 933-934.
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 No Longer a Source of Dioxin

Thomas Jorling
Science 3 November 2000: 934-935.
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 Clarifying the SF₅CF₃ Record

Ronald A. Hites;, Michael A. Santoro;, W. T. Sturges, D. E. Oram, S. A. Penkett, T. J. Wallington, K. P. Shine, and C. A. M. Brenninkmeijer
Science 3 November 2000: 935-936.
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 No Mercy

Richard E. Lenski
Science 3 November 2000: 936.
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 Secret to Marital Bliss?

David E. Fisher
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Lessons from Chaco Canyon

Michael Adler
Science 3 November 2000: 941-943.
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PHILOSOPHY:
On E. O. Wilson and His Religious Vision

Michael Ruse
Science 3 November 2000: 943.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Varied Fates from Similar States

Steven Austad
Science 3 November 2000: 944.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Polygraph Testing and the DOE National Laboratories

Steven Aftergood
Science 3 November 2000: 939-940.
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
Signs of Extreme Gravity

Sharon Morsink
Science 3 November 2000: 945-946.
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AIDS:
Boosting Immunity to HIV--Can the Virus Help?

Brigitte Autran and Guislaine Carcelain
Science 3 November 2000: 946-949.
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EVOLUTION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE:
Enhanced: A Tale of Two Selves

Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak
Science 3 November 2000: 949-950.
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CHEMISTRY:
Stretched Water Is More Reactive

George C. Schatz
Science 3 November 2000: 950-951.
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Reports

Discovery of a Transient Absorption Edge in the X-ray Spectrum of GRB 990705

Lorenzo Amati, Filippo Frontera, Mario Vietri, Jean J. M. in't Zand, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Stefano Del Sordo, Elena Pian, Luigi Piro, Lucio A. Antonelli, D. Dal Fiume, Marco Feroci, Giangiacomo Gandolfi, Cristiano Guidorzi, John Heise, Erik Kuulkers, Nicola Masetti, Enrico Montanari, Luciano Nicastro, Mauro Orlandini, and Eliana Palazzi
Science 3 November 2000: 953-955.
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Observation of X-ray Lines from a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB991216): Evidence of Moving Ejecta from the Progenitor

L. Piro, G. Garmire, M. Garcia, G. Stratta, E. Costa, M. Feroci, P. Mészáros, M. Vietri, H. Bradt, D. Frail, F. Frontera, J. Halpern, J. Heise, K. Hurley, N. Kawai, R. M. Kippen, F. Marshall, T. Murakami, V. V. Sokolov, T. Takeshima, and A. Yoshida
Science 3 November 2000: 955-958.
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Mode-Specific Energy Disposal in the Four-Atom Reaction OH + D₂  HOD + D

Brian R. Strazisar, Cheng Lin, and H. Floyd Davis
Science 3 November 2000: 958-961.
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First-Principles Theory for the H + H₂O, D₂O Reactions

Dong H. Zhang, Michael A. Collins, and Soo-Y. Lee
Science 3 November 2000: 961-963.
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A Light-Emitting Field-Effect Transistor

J. H. Schön, A. Dodabalapur, Ch. Kloc, and B. Batlogg
Science 3 November 2000: 963-965.
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Emissions of Methyl Halides and Methane from Rice Paddies

K. R. Redeker, N.-Y. Wang, J. C. Low, A. McMillan, S. C. Tyler, and R. J. Cicerone
Science 3 November 2000: 966-969.
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Early Permian Bipedal Reptile

David S. Berman, Robert R. Reisz, Diane Scott, Amy C. Henrici, Stuart S. Sumida, and Thomas Martens
Science 3 November 2000: 969-972.
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A Kingdom-Level Phylogeny of Eukaryotes Based on Combined Protein Data

Sandra L. Baldauf, A. J. Roger, I. Wenk-Siefert, and W. F. Doolittle
Science 3 November 2000: 972-977.
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Recovery and Management Options for Spring/Summer Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River Basin

Peter Kareiva, Michelle Marvier, and Michelle McClure
Science 3 November 2000: 977-979.
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VirB/D4-Dependent Protein Translocation from Agrobacterium into Plant Cells

Annette C. Vergunst, Barbara Schrammeijer, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Clementine M. T. de Vlaam, Tonny J. G. Regensburg-Tuïnk, and Paul J. J. Hooykaas
Science 3 November 2000: 979-982.
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A Basal Transcription Factor That Activates or Represses Transcription

Patricia J. Willy, Ryuji Kobayashi, and James T. Kadonaga
Science 3 November 2000: 982-984.
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Oxidative Damage Linked to Neurodegeneration by Selective -Synuclein Nitration in Synucleinopathy Lesions

Benoit I. Giasson, John E. Duda, Ian V. J. Murray, Qiping Chen, José M. Souza, Howard I. Hurtig, Harry Ischiropoulos, John Q. Trojanowski, and Virginia M. -Y. Lee
Science 3 November 2000: 985-989.
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Role of BAX in the Apoptotic Response to Anticancer Agents

Lin Zhang, Jian Yu, Ben Ho Park, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
Science 3 November 2000: 989-992.
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A PEST-Like Sequence in Listeriolysin O Essential for Listeria monocytogenes Pathogenicity

Amy L. Decatur and Daniel A. Portnoy
Science 3 November 2000: 992-995.
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Role of Bacillus subtilis SpoIIIE in DNA Transport Across the Mother Cell-Prespore Division Septum

Jonathan Bath, Ling Juan Wu, Jeffery Errington, and James C. Wang
Science 3 November 2000: 995-997.
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