This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Good News at State

Mary Good
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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

MIDDLE SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT:
Asia Stays on Top, U.S. in Middle in New Global Rankings

Constance Holden
Science 8 December 2000: 1866.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 8 December 2000: 1867.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Polio Outbreak Raises Questions About Vaccine

Liese Greensfelder
Science 8 December 2000: 1867-1869.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
EMBL Rescued From the Financial Brink

Lone Frank
Science 8 December 2000: 1869.
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EASTERN EUROPEAN SCIENCE:
Program for Elites Draws Praise, Fire

Richard Stone
Science 8 December 2000: 1870.
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HEPATITIS C:
New 'Replicon' Yields Viral Proteins

Eliot Marshall
Science 8 December 2000: 1870-1871.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Tiny, Feathered Dino Is Most Birdlike Yet

Erik Stokstad
Science 8 December 2000: 1871-1872.
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JAPAN:
Human Cloning Ban Allows Some Research

Dennis Normile
Science 8 December 2000: 1872.
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RESEARCH ETHICS:
Studies Trace Patchwork of Conflict Policies

Bruce Agnew
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MARINE ENVIRONMENT:
Clinton Creates Huge Hawaiian Coral Haven

David Malakoff
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CHEMISTRY:
Crystals Branch Out Into Exotic Shapes

Robert F. Service
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

VIROLOGY:
Probing HIV's Elusive Activities Within the Host Cell

Marina Chicurel
Science 8 December 2000: 1876-1879.
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VIROLOGY:
Capitalizing on HIV's Talents for Gene Therapy

Marina Chicurel
Science 8 December 2000: 1878.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A Dripping Wet Early Mars Emerging From New Pictures

Richard A. Kerr
Science 8 December 2000: 1879-1880.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Has Leishmaniasis Become Endemic in the U.S.?

Martin Enserink
Science 8 December 2000: 1881-1883.
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MATHEMATICS:
Taking the Measure of the Wildest Dance on Earth

Dana Mackenzie
Science 8 December 2000: 1883-1884.
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AAS HIGH-ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION:
X-rays Hit the Spot for Astrophysicists

Robert Irion
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 How Much Does One Vote Count in an Election?

Joseph F. Bunnett
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 "Kyoto Forests" and a Broader Perspective on Management

John H. Borden;, Gregg Marland, Bernhard Schlamadinger, Robert Matthews;, Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Christian Wirth, and Martin Heimann
Science 8 December 2000: 1895-1986.
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 Safety Data Crucial for Biological Control Insect Agents

Robert W. Pemberton and Donald R. Strong
Science 8 December 2000: 1896-1897.
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 Ritalin Tests for Preschoolers

Laurence L. Greenhill
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Attending Marvels

Niles Eldredge
Science 8 December 2000: 1900-1901.
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 Browsings

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ENVIRONMENT:
Television: Fade to Black?

Andrew Sugden
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Surveillance and Privacy

Ronald Bayer and Amy L. Fairchild
Science 8 December 2000: 1898-1899.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
Actin' Up with Rac1

Nansi Jo Colley
Science 8 December 2000: 1902-1903.
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COMPUTING:
Screen Savers of the World Unite!

Michael Shirts and Vijay S. Pande
Science 8 December 2000: 1903-1904.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Enhanced: Hear, Hear, for the Inner Ear

Anthony Graham
Science 8 December 2000: 1904-1905.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Glacial Climate Instability

Laurent Labeyrie
Science 8 December 2000: 1905-1907.
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OPTICS:
The Internet of Tomorrow

Steve Joiner
Science 8 December 2000: 1907-1908.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Noise Makes Sense in Neuronal Computing

Maxim Volgushev and Ulf T. Eysel
Science 8 December 2000: 1908-1909.
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Pathways of Discovery

Piecing Together the Biggest Puzzle of All

Martin J. Rees
Science 8 December 2000: 1919-1925.
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Review

Subduction and Slab Detachment in the Mediterranean-Carpathian Region

M. J. R. Wortel and W. Spakman
Science 8 December 2000: 1910-1917.
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Research Article

Sedimentary Rocks of Early Mars

Michael C. Malin and Kenneth S. Edgett
Science 8 December 2000: 1927-1937.
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Reports

Planar Hexacoordinate Carbon: A Viable Possibility

Kai Exner and Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Science 8 December 2000: 1937-1940.
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Geodynamic Evidence for a Chemically Depleted Continental Tectosphere

Alessandro M. Forte and H. Claire Perry
Science 8 December 2000: 1940-1944.
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Teleconvection: Remotely Driven Thermal Convection in Rotating Stratified Spherical Layers

Keke Zhang and Gerald Schubert
Science 8 December 2000: 1944-1947.
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Rapid Changes in the Hydrologic Cycle of the Tropical Atlantic During the Last Glacial

Larry C. Peterson, Gerald H. Haug, Konrad A. Hughen, and Ursula Röhl
Science 8 December 2000: 1947-1951.
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Synchronous Radiocarbon and Climate Shifts During the Last Deglaciation

Konrad A. Hughen, John R. Southon, Scott J. Lehman, and Jonathan T. Overpeck
Science 8 December 2000: 1951-1954.
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A Primitive Enantiornithine Bird and the Origin of Feathers

Fucheng Zhang and Zhonghe Zhou
Science 8 December 2000: 1955-1959.
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Glucose-Dependent Insulin Release from Genetically Engineered K Cells

Anthony T. Cheung, Bama Dayanandan, Jamie T. Lewis, Gregory S. Korbutt, Ray V. Rajotte, Michael Bryer-Ash, Michael O. Boylan, M. Michael Wolfe, and Timothy J. Kieffer
Science 8 December 2000: 1959-1962.
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Response to RAG-Mediated V(D)J Cleavage by NBS1 and -H2AX

Hua Tang Chen, Avinash Bhandoola, Michael J. Difilippantonio, Jie Zhu, Martin J. Brown, Xuguang Tai, Emmy P. Rogakou, Tilmann M. Brotz, William M. Bonner, Thomas Ried, and André Nussenzweig
Science 8 December 2000: 1962-1964.
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Identification of Synergistic Signals Initiating Inner Ear Development

Raj K. Ladher, Kelly U. Anakwe, Austin L. Gurney, Gary C. Schoenwolf, and Philippa H. Francis-West
Science 8 December 2000: 1965-1967.
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The Contribution of Noise to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex

Jeffrey S. Anderson, Ilan Lampl, Deda C. Gillespie, and David Ferster
Science 8 December 2000: 1968-1972.
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Efficient Initiation of HCV RNA Replication in Cell Culture

Keril J. Blight, Alexander A. Kolykhalov, and Charles M. Rice
Science 8 December 2000: 1972-1974.
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Multigenerational Cortical Inheritance of the Rax2 Protein in Orienting Polarity and Division in Yeast

Tracy Chen, Takatoshi Hiroko, Amitabha Chaudhuri, Fumika Inose, Matthew Lord, Shigeko Tanaka, John Chant, and Atsushi Fujita
Science 8 December 2000: 1975-1978.
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Rescue of Photoreceptor Degeneration in Rhodopsin-Null Drosophila Mutants by Activated Rac1

Hui-Yun Chang and Donald F. Ready
Science 8 December 2000: 1978-1980.
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