This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
New Climate News

Don Kennedy
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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

GENETIC TESTING:
Families Sue Hospital, Scientist for Control of Canavan Gene

Eliot Marshall
Science 10 November 2000: 1062.
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CLINICAL TRIALS:
Company, Researchers Battle Over Data Access

Carol Cruzan Morton
Science 10 November 2000: 1063.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Twinned Genes Live Life in the Fast Lane

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 10 November 2000: 1065-1066.
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THEORETICAL PHYSICS:
Offbeat Lenses Promise Perfect Fidelity

Charles Seife
Science 10 November 2000: 1066.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
New Clues to How Genes Are Controlled

Jean Marx
Science 10 November 2000: 1066-1067.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Pesticide Causes Parkinson's in Rats

Laura Helmuth
Science 10 November 2000: 1068.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Ehlers Bill Suffers Surprising Defeat

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 10 November 2000: 1068-1069.
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ACADEMIC COMMUNITY:
Ruling Allows Unions at Private Colleges

Constance Holden
Science 10 November 2000: 1069-1071.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Panel Backs EPA Dioxin Assessment

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 10 November 2000: 1071.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Halley's Origins Mysterious No More?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 November 2000: 1071.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS:
Silent No Longer: 'Model Minority' Mobilizes

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 November 2000: 1072-1077.
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ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS:
Lee Case Births a Reluctant Activist

Andrew Lawler
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ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS:
New Breed of Protester Asks: Why Not Us?

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 November 2000: 1075.
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ASIAN-AMERICAN SCIENTISTS:
Harbinger of a Litigious Future?

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 November 2000: 1076.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
In Search of Biological Weirdness

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 10 November 2000: 1077-1080.
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EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS:
Europeans Trace Ancestry to Paleolithic People

Ann Gibbons
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Canine Detectives: The Nose Knows--Or Does It?

I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., Steven Austad, and Steven K. Jacobson
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 Ideas About the Development of Violent Behavior

Debra L. Niehoff; and Richard Rhodes
Science 10 November 2000: 1093-1095.
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 Conflict and Resolution in Primates--All Too Human?

Mary Greenberg, Ray Pierotti;, Charles H. Southwick;, and Frans B. M. de Waal
Science 10 November 2000: 1095-1097.
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 Cause of Seal Die-off in 1988 Is Still Under Debate

Thomas J. O'Shea
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 Ph.D.'s as Science Teachers: Notes from the Field

Louis Roccanova
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
How We Got Here and Where We Are Going

Mark Ridley
Science 10 November 2000: 1102-1103.
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 Browsings

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FILMS:
Nota Bene: Seven Scientists Up Close

David Voss
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

EUROPEAN POLICY:
Science in Europe

Kai Simons and Carol Featherstone
Science 10 November 2000: 1099-1101.
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION AND IMMUNOLOGY:
The Economics of Immunity

Andrew F. Read and Judith E. Allen
Science 10 November 2000: 1104-1105.
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CLIMATE VARIABILITY:
Enhanced: Do the Tropics Rule?

Mark A. Cane and Michael Evans
Science 10 November 2000: 1107-1108.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Unwinding RNA Silencing

David C. Baulcombe
Science 10 November 2000: 1108-1109.
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CLIMATE:
A New Route Toward Limiting Climate Change?

Steven J. Smith, Tom M. L. Wigley, and Jae Edmonds
Science 10 November 2000: 1109-1110.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Nitrogen on the Moon

Richard H. Becker
Science 10 November 2000: 1110-1111.
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Pathways of Discovery

Neuroscience: Breaking Down Scientific Barriers to the Study of Brain and Mind

Eric R. Kandel and Larry R. Squire
Science 10 November 2000: 1113-1120.
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Research Article

Allosteric Effects of Pit-1 DNA Sites on Long-Term Repression in Cell Type Specification

Kathleen M. Scully, Eric M. Jacobson, Kristen Jepsen, Victoria Lunyak, Hector Viadiu, Catherine Carrière, David W. Rose, Farideh Hooshmand, Aneel K. Aggarwal, and Michael G. Rosenfeld
Science 10 November 2000: 1127-1131.
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Reports

Spin-Dependent Tunneling in Self-Assembled Cobalt-Nanocrystal Superlattices

C. T. Black, C. B. Murray, R. L. Sandstrom, and Shouheng Sun
Science 10 November 2000: 1131-1134.
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The Role of Mg²⁺ as an Impurity in Calcite Growth

Kevin J. Davis, Patricia M. Dove, and James J. De Yoreo
Science 10 November 2000: 1134-1137.
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African Hot Spot Volcanism: Small-Scale Convection in the Upper Mantle Beneath Cratons

Scott D. King and Jeroen Ritsema
Science 10 November 2000: 1137-1140.
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Direct Condensation of Carboxylic Acids with Alcohols Catalyzed by Hafnium(IV) Salts

Kazuaki Ishihara, Suguru Ohara, and Hisashi Yamamoto
Science 10 November 2000: 1140-1142.
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Solar Wind Record on the Moon: Deciphering Presolar from Planetary Nitrogen

Ko Hashizume, Marc Chaussidon, Bernard Marty, and François Robert
Science 10 November 2000: 1142-1145.
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Decadal Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Subtropical South Pacific from 1726 to 1997 A.D.

Braddock K. Linsley, Gerard M. Wellington, and Daniel P. Schrag
Science 10 November 2000: 1145-1148.
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Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon Accumulation in U.S. Forests

John P. Caspersen, Stephen W. Pacala, Jennifer C. Jenkins, George C. Hurtt, Paul R. Moorcroft, and Richard A. Birdsey
Science 10 November 2000: 1148-1151.
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The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes

Michael Lynch and John S. Conery
Science 10 November 2000: 1151-1155.
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The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective

Ornella Semino, Giuseppe Passarino, Peter J. Oefner, Alice A. Lin, Svetlana Arbuzova, Lars E. Beckman, Giovanna De Benedictis, Paolo Francalacci, Anastasia Kouvatsi, Svetlana Limborska, Mladen Marcikiæ, Anna Mika, Barbara Mika, Dragan Primorac, A. Silvana Santachiara-Benerecetti, L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Peter A. Underhill
Science 10 November 2000: 1155-1159.
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Transgene and Transposon Silencing in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by a DEAH-Box RNA Helicase

Dancia Wu-Scharf, Byeong-ryool Jeong, Chaomei Zhang, and Heriberto Cerutti
Science 10 November 2000: 1159-1162.
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Aureusidin Synthase: A Polyphenol Oxidase Homolog Responsible for Flower Coloration

T. Nakayama, K. Yonekura-Sakakibara, T. Sato, S. Kikuchi, Y. Fukui, M. Fukuchi-Mizutani, T. Ueda, M. Nakao, Y. Tanaka, T. Kusumi, and T. Nishino
Science 10 November 2000: 1163-1166.
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Survival for Immunity: The Price of Immune System Activation for Bumblebee Workers

Yannick Moret and Paul Schmid-Hempel
Science 10 November 2000: 1166-1168.
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Promiscuity and the Primate Immune System

Charles L. Nunn, John L. Gittleman, and Janis Antonovics
Science 10 November 2000: 1168-1170.
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NMDA Receptor-Dependent Synaptic Reinforcement as a Crucial Process for Memory Consolidation

Eiji Shimizu, Ya-Ping Tang, Claire Rampon, and Joe Z. Tsien
Science 10 November 2000: 1170-1174.
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Technical Comments

 Flash-Lag Effect: Differential Latency, Not Postdiction

Saumil S. Patel, Haluk Ogmen, Harold E. Bedell, Vanitha Sampath, David M. Eagleman, and Terrence J. Sejnowski
Science 10 November 2000: 1051.
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