This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
University-Industry Partnership

Zach W. Hall and Christopher Scott
Science 26 January 2001: 553.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 26 January 2001: 671.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 26 January 2001: 677-679.

News of the Week

CLIMATE CHANGE:
It's Official: Humans Are Behind Most of Global Warming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 January 2001: 566.
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QUANTUM OPTICS:
Atomic Squeeze Play Stops Light Cold

David Voss
Science 26 January 2001: 566-567.
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NOBEL PRIZE:
Researcher Overlooked for 2000 Nobel

Laura Helmuth
Science 26 January 2001: 567-569.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Glia Tell Neurons to Build Synapses

Laura Helmuth
Science 26 January 2001: 569-570.
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GERMANY:
National Centers Urged to Team Up, Compete

Robert Koenig
Science 26 January 2001: 570-571.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Xylem May Direct Water Where It's Needed

Kathryn Brown
Science 26 January 2001: 571-572.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Transition Rumor Targets Colwell

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 26 January 2001: 572.
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CLINICAL MEDICINE:
FDA to Release Data on Gene Therapy Trials

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 26 January 2001: 572-573.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
New Collider Sees Hints of Quark-Gluon Plasma

Charles Seife
Science 26 January 2001: 573.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
Company Plans to Bank Human DNA Profiles

Eliot Marshall
Science 26 January 2001: 575.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
U.K. Cancer Funders May Unite

John Pickrell
Science 26 January 2001: 575.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ECOLOGY:
A Roaring Debate Over Ocean Noise

David Malakoff
Science 26 January 2001: 576-578.
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ECOLOGY:
New Sensors Provide a Chance to Listen to the Leviathan

David Malakoff
Science 26 January 2001: 577.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY:
Celestial Zoo Gains Some Exotic Specimens

Govert Schilling
Science 26 January 2001: 578-581.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Anti-Inflammatories Inhibit Cancer Growth--But How?

Jean Marx
Science 26 January 2001: 581-582.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION:
Predicting Icelandic Fire and Shakes

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 January 2001: 583.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION:
Atmosphere's Power Grid Exposed

Robert Irion
Science 26 January 2001: 583-584.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION:
Earth's Breathing Lessons

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 January 2001: 584.
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AUSTRALIA:
Engineered Mouse Virus Spurs Bioweapon Fears

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 26 January 2001: 585.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 26 January 2001: 595.
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 Questioning the Treatment for ADHD

Peter R. Breggin; and Fred A. Baughman Jr
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 Biochemistry of Neurodegeneration

George Perry, Jesús Avila, Michael G. Espey, David A. Wink, Craig S. Atwood, Mark A. Smith;, Harry Ishiropoulos, Benoit Giasson, John E. Duda, John Q. Trojanowski, and Virginia M.-Y. Lee
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Republican Temple of Nature

Pascal Duris
Science 26 January 2001: 601-602.
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EVOLUTION:
Holy Landscapes!

James Mallet
Science 26 January 2001: 602.
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 Books Received

Science 26 January 2001: 602.

Policy Forum

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals

Juyang Weng, James McClelland, Alex Pentland, Olaf Sporns, Ida Stockman, Mriganka Sur, and Esther Thelen
Science 26 January 2001: 599-600.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE:
The North Atlantic Oscillation

James W. Hurrell, Yochanan Kushnir, and Martin Visbeck
Science 26 January 2001: 603-605.
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FLUID DYNAMICS:
Droplets Speeding on Surfaces

Darsh T. Wasan, Alex D. Nikolov, and Howard Brenner
Science 26 January 2001: 605-606.
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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Tropical Forest Diversity--The Plot Thickens

David F. R. P. Burslem, Nancy C. Garwood, and Sean C. Thomas
Science 26 January 2001: 606-607.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Is S Phase Important for Transcriptional Silencing?

Jeffrey S. Smith and Jef D. Boeke
Science 26 January 2001: 608-609.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
What Drives Societal Collapse?

Harvey Weiss and Raymond S. Bradley
Science 26 January 2001: 609-610.
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Research Article

Views of Earth's Magnetosphere with the IMAGE Satellite

J. L. Burch, S. B. Mende, D. G. Mitchell, T. E. Moore, C. J. Pollock, B. W. Reinisch, B. R. Sandel, S. A. Fuselier, D. L. Gallagher, J. L. Green, J. D. Perez, and P. H. Reiff
Science 26 January 2001: 619-624.
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Reports

Resonance-Enhanced Two-Photon Ionization of Ions by Lyman  Radiation in Gaseous Nebulae

Sveneric Johansson and Vladilen Letokhov
Science 26 January 2001: 625-627.
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Cherenkov Radiation at Speeds Below the Light Threshold: Phonon-Assisted Phase Matching

T. E. Stevens, J. K. Wahlstrand, J. Kuhl, and R. Merlin
Science 26 January 2001: 627-630.
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Directed Assembly of One-Dimensional Nanostructures into Functional Networks

Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Qingqiao Wei, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 26 January 2001: 630-633.
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Fast Drop Movements Resulting from the Phase Change on a Gradient Surface

Susan Daniel, Manoj K. Chaudhury, and John C. Chen
Science 26 January 2001: 633-636.
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Capture of a Single Molecule in a Nanocavity

Li-Qun Gu, Stephen Cheley, and Hagan Bayley
Science 26 January 2001: 636-640.
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The History of South American Tropical Precipitation for the Past 25,000 Years

Paul A. Baker, Geoffrey O. Seltzer, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Robert B. Dunbar, Matthew J. Grove, Pedro M. Tapia, Scott L. Cross, Harold D. Rowe, and James P. Broda
Science 26 January 2001: 640-643.
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Substitution of the Thioredoxin System for Glutathione Reductase in Drosophila melanogaster

Stefan M. Kanzok, Anke Fechner, Holger Bauer, Julia K. Ulschmid, Hans-Michael Müller, José Botella-Munoz, Stephan Schneuwly, R. Heiner Schirmer, and Katja Becker
Science 26 January 2001: 643-646.
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DNA Replication-Independent Silencing in S. cerevisiae

Ann L. Kirchmaier and Jasper Rine
Science 26 January 2001: 646-650.
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Establishment of Transcriptional Silencing in the Absence of DNA Replication

Yao-Cheng Li, Tzu-Hao Cheng, and Marc R. Gartenberg
Science 26 January 2001: 650-653.
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Role of Importin- in Coupling Ran to Downstream Targets in Microtubule Assembly

Christiane Wiese, Andrew Wilde, Mary Shannon Moore, Stephen A. Adam, Andreas Merdes, and Yixian Zheng
Science 26 January 2001: 653-656.
Published online 4 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057661] (in Science Express Reports)
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Control of Synapse Number by Glia

Erik M. Ullian, Stephanie K. Sapperstein, Karen S. Christopherson, and Ben A. Barres
Science 26 January 2001: 657-661.
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Backward Spreading of Memory-Retrieval Signal in the Primate Temporal Cortex

Yuji Naya, Masatoshi Yoshida, and Yasushi Miyashita
Science 26 January 2001: 661-664.
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Glycolipid Antigen Processing for Presentation by CD1d Molecules

Theodore I. Prigozy, Olga Naidenko, Pankaj Qasba, Dirk Elewaut, Laurent Brossay, Archana Khurana, Takenori Natori, Yasuhiko Koezuka, Ashok Kulkarni, and Mitchell Kronenberg
Science 26 January 2001: 664-667.
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Nucleotide-Dependent Single- to Double-Headed Binding of Kinesin

Kenji Kawaguchi and Shin'ichi Ishiwata
Science 26 January 2001: 667-669.
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Technical Comments

 Is CdtB a Nuclease or a Phosphatase?

Mensur Dlakic, María Lara-Tejero, and Jorge E. Galán
Science 26 January 2001: 547.
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