This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Big Ideas from a Small Plant

Caroline Dean
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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

HUMAN GENOME:
Storm Erupts Over Terms for Publishing Celera's Sequence

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 December 2000: 2042-2043.
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U.S.-RUSSIA TIES:
Spy Conviction Strains Science Collaborations

Richard Stone
Science 15 December 2000: 2043-2045.
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ECOLOGY/PALEONTOLOGY:
Colorado River Clams Provide Benchmark

Mark Muro
Science 15 December 2000: 2045-2046.
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Italian Scientists Blast GMO Restrictions

Lone Frank
Science 15 December 2000: 2046.
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS:
Magnetic Wires Promise Giant Step for Memory

Robert F. Service
Science 15 December 2000: 2047-2048.
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AGING RESEARCH:
Old Flies May Hold Secrets of Aging

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 15 December 2000: 2048.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Young X-ray Satellite Rattles Old Ideas

Govert Schilling
Science 15 December 2000: 2049.
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GENE THERAPY:
FDA Moves Against Penn Scientist

Gretchen Vogel
Science 15 December 2000: 2049-2051.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Immune Molecules Prune Neural Links

Laura Helmuth
Science 15 December 2000: 2051.
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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY:
Language Affects Sound Perception

Charles Seife
Science 15 December 2000: 2051-2052.
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ACADEMIC RESEARCH:
California Sets Up Three New Institutes

Evelyn Strauss
Science 15 December 2000: 2052.
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ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY:
Treaty Takes a POP at the Dirty Dozen

Jocelyn Kaiser and Martin Enserink
Science 15 December 2000: 2053.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SEQUENCE:
Plants Join the Genome Sequencing Bandwagon

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 15 December 2000: 2054-2055.
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ECOLOGY:
Stalking the Wild Mustard

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 15 December 2000: 2055-2057.
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Arabidopsis Kin Help Keep Genetics Studies All in the Family

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 15 December 2000: 2056.
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CENTROMERES:
A Journey to the Center of the Chromosome

Christine Mlot
Science 15 December 2000: 2057-2059.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Galápagos Station Survives Latest Attack by Fishers

Dan Ferber
Science 15 December 2000: 2059-2061.
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BIOMATERIALS:
New Chinese Biochip Center Straddles Business, Academe

Ding Yimin
Science 15 December 2000: 2061-2062.
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DICK MOL:
'Sir Mammoth' Leads Charge to Uncover Ice Age Fossils

Richard Stone
Science 15 December 2000: 2062-2063.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Databases Tailored for Biodiversity Conservation

Andrew T. Smith, Luigi Boitani, Colin Bibby, David Brackett, Fabio Corsi, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Claude Gascon, Mariano Gimenez Dixon, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Georgine Mace, Russell A. Mittermeier, Jorge Rabinovich, Barry J. Richardson, Anthony Rylands, Bruce Stein, Simon Stuart, Jorgen Thomsen, Crispen Wilson;, James L. Edwards, Meredith A. Lane, Ebbe S. Nielsen;, and Frank A. Bisby
Science 15 December 2000: 2073-2074.
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 Collaborations Tailored for Bioinformatics Projects

Yang Zhong, Liang Zhang, and Deming Su
Science 15 December 2000: 2074.
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 Tools of the Trade in Vaccine Design

Alessandro Sette
Science 15 December 2000: 2074-2075.
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 "Diamond Ceiling" for Asian Americans

Vijendra K. Agarwal
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

COSMOLOGY:
The Big Bang's Radical Brother

David W. Hogg and Matias Zaldarriaga
Science 15 December 2000: 2079-2080.
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 Browsings

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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

GENOMICS:
Plant Biology in 2010

Chris Somerville and Jeff Dangl
Science 15 December 2000: 2077-2078.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
The Causes of 20th Century Warming

Francis W. Zwiers and Andrew J. Weaver
Science 15 December 2000: 2081-2083.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Enhanced: How Strange Is the Proton?

Günther Rosner
Science 15 December 2000: 2083-2084.
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ECOLOGY:
Species-Area Relations in Tropical Forests

Robert M. May and Michael P. H. Stumpf
Science 15 December 2000: 2084-2086.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Action at a Distance--Bacterial Flagellar Assembly

Robert M. Macnab
Science 15 December 2000: 2086-2087.
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 CELL BIOLOGY:
Nota Bene: The Export Business

Orla Smith
Science 15 December 2000: 2087.
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Tech.Sight

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Making Catalytic DNAs

Ronald R. Breaker
Science 15 December 2000: 2095-2096.
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 SOFTWARE:
Micromanaging References

Brian R. Shmaefsky
Science 15 December 2000: 2097.
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 SOFTWARE:
Plotting the Fit

Kathy E. Mitchell
Science 15 December 2000: 2097-2098.
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 SOFTWARE:
Modeling Molecules

John A. Wass
Science 15 December 2000: 2098.
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 SOFTWARE:
Electronic Teacher

Kevin Ahern
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Review

The Ecological Risks and Benefits of Genetically Engineered Plants

L. L. Wolfenbarger and and P. R. Phifer
Science 15 December 2000: 2088-2093.
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Research Articles

Arabidopsis Transcription Factors: Genome-Wide Comparative Analysis Among Eukaryotes

J. L. Riechmann, J. Heard, G. Martin, L. Reuber, C. -Z., Jiang, J. Keddie, L. Adam, O. Pineda, O. J. Ratcliffe, R. R. Samaha, R. Creelman, M. Pilgrim, P. Broun, J. Z. Zhang, D. Ghandehari, B. K. Sherman, and G. -L. Yu
Science 15 December 2000: 2105-2110.
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Orchestrated Transcription of Key Pathways in Arabidopsis by the Circadian Clock

Stacey L. Harmer, John B. Hogenesch, Marty Straume, Hur-Song Chang, Bin Han, Tong Zhu, Xun Wang, Joel A. Kreps, and Steve A. Kay
Science 15 December 2000: 2110-2113.
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The Origins of Genomic Duplications in Arabidopsis

Todd J. Vision, Daniel G. Brown, and Steven D. Tanksley
Science 15 December 2000: 2114-2117.
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Reports

Strange Magnetism and the Anapole Structure of the Proton

R. Hasty, A. M. Hawthorne-Allen, T. Averett, D. Barkhuff, D. H. Beck, E. J. Beise, A. Blake, H. Breuer, R. Carr, S. Covrig, A. Danagoulian, G. Dodson, K. Dow, M. Farkhondeh, B. W. Filippone, J. Gao, M. C. Herda, T. M. Ito, C. E. Jones, W. Korsch, K. Kramer, S. Kowalski, P. Lee, R. D. McKeown, B. Mueller, M. Pitt, J. Ritter, J. Roche, V. Savu, D. T. Spayde, R. Tieulent, E. Tsentalovich, S. P. Wells, B. Yang, and T. Zwart
Science 15 December 2000: 2117-2119.
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Molybdenum Nanowires by Electrodeposition

Michael P. Zach, Kwok H. Ng, and Reginald M. Penner
Science 15 December 2000: 2120-2123.
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High-Resolution Inkjet Printing of All-Polymer Transistor Circuits

H. Sirringhaus, T. Kawase, R. H. Friend, T. Shimoda, M. Inbasekaran, W. Wu, and E. P. Woo
Science 15 December 2000: 2123-2126.
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Ultrahigh-Density Nanowire Arrays Grown in Self-Assembled Diblock Copolymer Templates

T. Thurn-Albrecht, J. Schotter, G. A. Kästle, N. Emley, T. Shibauchi, L. Krusin-Elbaum, K. Guarini, C. T. Black, M. T. Tuominen, and T. P. Russell
Science 15 December 2000: 2126-2129.
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Creating Long-Lived Superhydrophobic Polymer Surfaces Through Mechanically Assembled Monolayers

Jan Genzer and Kirill Efimenko
Science 15 December 2000: 2130-2133.
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External Control of 20th Century Temperature by Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings

Peter A. Stott, S. F. B. Tett, G. S. Jones, M. R. Allen, J. F. B. Mitchell, and G. J. Jenkins
Science 15 December 2000: 2133-2137.
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Extended Life-Span Conferred by Cotransporter Gene Mutations in Drosophila

Blanka Rogina, Robert A. Reenan, Steven P. Nilsen, and Stephen L. Helfand
Science 15 December 2000: 2137-2140.
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Docosahexaenoic Acid, a Ligand for the Retinoid X Receptor in Mouse Brain

Alexander Mata de Urquiza, Suya Liu, Maria Sjöberg, Rolf H. Zetterström, William Griffiths, Jan Sjövall, and Thomas Perlmann
Science 15 December 2000: 2140-2144.
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Global Analysis of the Genetic Network Controlling a Bacterial Cell Cycle

Michael T. Laub, Harley H. McAdams, Tamara Feldblyum, Claire M. Fraser, and Lucy Shapiro
Science 15 December 2000: 2144-2148.
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The Bacterial Flagellar Cap as the Rotary Promoter of Flagellin Self-Assembly

Koji Yonekura, Saori Maki, David Gene Morgan, David J. DeRosier, Ferenc Vonderviszt, Katsumi Imada, and Keiichi Namba
Science 15 December 2000: 2148-2152.
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Development of CD8-Positive Dendritic Cells from a Common Myeloid Progenitor

David Traver, Koichi Akashi, Markus Manz, Miriam Merad, Toshihiro Miyamoto, Edgar G. Engleman, and Irving L. Weissman
Science 15 December 2000: 2152-2154.
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Functional Requirement for Class I MHC in CNS Development and Plasticity

Gene S. Huh, Lisa M. Boulanger, Hongping Du, Patricio A. Riquelme, Tilmann M. Brotz, and Carla J. Shatz
Science 15 December 2000: 2155-2159.
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Technical Comments

 Genetic Polymorphism in CX₃CR1 and Risk of HIV Disease

David H. McDermott, Joseph S. Colla, Cynthia A. Kleeberger, Michael Plankey, Philip S. Rosenberg, Erica D. Smith, Peter A. Zimmerman, Christophe Combadière, Susan F. Leitman, Richard A. Kaslow, James J. Goedert, Edward A. Berger, Thomas R. O'Brien, and Philip M. Murphy
Science 15 December 2000: 2031.
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