This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
U.S. Census 2000: An Update

Kenneth Prewitt
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
New Faces Please and Puzzle Researchers

David Malakoff
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SOLAR, PLANETARY STUDIES:
Two Fields Prepare to Take the Long View

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 January 2001: 222-223.
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HUMAN GENOME:
NIH Considers Paying to Use Private Database

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 January 2001: 223-225.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
New Fossil Fills Gap in Bird Evolution

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 January 2001: 225.
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TRANSGENIC ANIMALS:
Infant Monkey Carries Jellyfish Gene

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 January 2001: 226.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
Mutant Gene Speeds Up the Human Clock

Marina Chicurel
Science 12 January 2001: 226-227.
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FISHERIES SCIENCE:
Ear Bones Reveal Homing Tendencies

David Malakoff
Science 12 January 2001: 227-229.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
HIV Inhibitor Blocks Virus From Cell

Laura Helmuth
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Mammoth Hunters Put Hopes on Ice

Richard Stone
Science 12 January 2001: 229-230.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Oldest Human DNA Reveals Aussie Oddity

Constance Holden
Science 12 January 2001: 230-231.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Skull Study Targets Africa-Only Origins

Elizabeth Pennisi
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

THE FOSSILS:
Exquisite Chinese Fossils Add New Pages to Book of Life

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 January 2001: 232-236.
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PALEONTOLOGY IN CHINA:
A Peek at China's Paleontological Bounty

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 January 2001: 234-235.
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PLAYERS:
Research Kicks Into High Gear After a Long, Uphill Struggle

Dennis Normile
Science 12 January 2001: 237-238.
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PROBLEMS:
Internal Fights, Looting Hinder Work in the Field

Dennis Normile
Science 12 January 2001: 239-241.
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PARTNERS:
Fruitful Collaborations Follow a Two-Way Street

Xiong Lei
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Evolution of Sockeye Salmon Ecotypes

Richard G. Gustafson, Robin Waples, Steven T. Kalinowski, Gary A. Winans;, Andrew P. Hendry, John K. Wenburg, Paul Bentzen, Eric Volk, and Thomas P. Quinn
Science 12 January 2001: 251-252.
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 Selfish DNA and the Origin of Genes

Donard S. Dwyer;, Hiroyuki Ogata, Stéphane Audic, and Jean-Michel Claverie
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 Scientific Whaling

William Aron
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 Tenured Faculty on Soft Money

Edward L. Kean
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 No Error in Vote Counts--in Principle

C. Dennis Thron; and Vincent Crespi
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Explosive Rhetoric

Gregory Benford
Science 12 January 2001: 257-258.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Things Fall Apart

Robert E. Shope
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

DISASTERS:
Volcano Fatalities--Lessons from the Historical Record

Tom Simkin, Lee Siebert, and Russell Blong
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Perspectives

PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Enhanced: The Search for the Higgs Boson

Michael Riordan, P. C. Rowson, and Sau Lan Wu
Science 12 January 2001: 259-260.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Seeking Categories in the Brain

Simon J. Thorpe and Michèle Fabre-Thorpe
Science 12 January 2001: 260-263.
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MOLECULAR METALS:
Staying Neutral for a Change

Patrick Cassoux
Science 12 January 2001: 263-264.
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ECOLOGY:
Bird Navigation--Computing Orthodromes

Rudiger Wehner
Science 12 January 2001: 264-265.
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Review

Electron Spin Resonance in Studies of Membranes and Proteins

P. P. Borbat, A. J. Costa-Filho, K. A. Earle, J. K. Moscicki, and J. H. Freed
Science 12 January 2001: 266-269.
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Reports

Fluid Control in Multichannel Structures by Electrocapillary Pressure

M. W. J. Prins, W. J. J. Welters, and J. W. Weekamp
Science 12 January 2001: 277-280.
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Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in DNA

A. Yu. Kasumov, M. Kociak, S. Guéron, B. Reulet, V. T. Volkov, D. V. Klinov, and H. Bouchiat
Science 12 January 2001: 280-282.
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Resonant Electron Scattering by Defects in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Marc Bockrath, Wenjie Liang, Dolores Bozovic, Jason H. Hafner, Charles M. Lieber, M. Tinkham, and Hongkun Park
Science 12 January 2001: 283-285.
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A Three-Dimensional Synthetic Metallic Crystal Composed of Single-Component Molecules

Hisashi Tanaka, Yoshinori Okano, Hayao Kobayashi, Wakako Suzuki, and Akiko Kobayashi
Science 12 January 2001: 285-287.
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String Tension and Stability of Magic Tip-Suspended Nanowires

E. Tosatti, S. Prestipino, S. Kostlmeier, A. Dal Corso, and F. D. Di Tolla
Science 12 January 2001: 288-290.
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Orbital Forcing of the Marine Isotope Stage 9 Interglacial

C. H. Stirling, T. M. Esat, K. Lambeck, M. T. McCulloch, S. G. Blake, D.-C. Lee, and A. N. Halliday
Science 12 January 2001: 290-293.
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Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory

Milford H. Wolpoff, John Hawks, David W. Frayer, and Keith Hunley
Science 12 January 2001: 293-297.
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Natal Homing in a Marine Fish Metapopulation

Simon R. Thorrold, Christopher Latkoczy, Peter K. Swart, and Cynthia M. Jones
Science 12 January 2001: 297-299.
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Migration Along Orthodromic Sun Compass Routes by Arctic Birds

Thomas Alerstam, Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson, Martin Green, and Anders Hedenström
Science 12 January 2001: 300-303.
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A Ribonucleotide Reductase Homolog of Cytomegalovirus and Endothelial Cell Tropism

Wolfram Brune, Carine Ménard, Jürgen Heesemann, and Ulrich H. Koszinowski
Science 12 January 2001: 303-305.
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A Role for Flavin Monooxygenase-Like Enzymes in Auxin Biosynthesis

Yunde Zhao, Sioux K. Christensen, Christian Fankhauser, John R. Cashman, Jerry D. Cohen, Detlef Weigel, and Joanne Chory
Science 12 January 2001: 306-309.
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Transgenic Monkeys Produced by Retroviral Gene Transfer into Mature Oocytes

A. W. S. Chan, K. Y. Chong, C. Martinovich, C. Simerly, and G. Schatten
Science 12 January 2001: 309-312.
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Categorical Representation of Visual Stimuli in the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

David J. Freedman, Maximilian Riesenhuber, Tomaso Poggio, and Earl K. Miller
Science 12 January 2001: 312-316.
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Role of ER Export Signals in Controlling Surface Potassium Channel Numbers

Dzwokai Ma, Noa Zerangue, Yu-Fung Lin, Anthony Collins, Mei Yu, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan
Science 12 January 2001: 316-319.
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Autoimmune Dilated Cardiomyopathy in PD-1 Receptor-Deficient Mice

Hiroyuki Nishimura, Taku Okazaki, Yoshimasa Tanaka, Kazuki Nakatani, Masatake Hara, Akira Matsumori, Shigetake Sasayama, Akira Mizoguchi, Hiroshi Hiai, Nagahiro Minato, and Tasuku Honjo
Science 12 January 2001: 319-322.
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Technical Comments

 Mechanism of Ribosomal Peptide Bond Formation

Andrea Barta, Silke Dorner, Norbert Polacek, Jeremy M. Berg, Jon R. Lorsch, Poul Nissen, Jeffrey Hansen, Greg W. Muth, Nenad Ban, Peter B. Moore, Scott A. Strobel, and Thomas A. Steitz
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