This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
"Accepted Community Standards"

Donald Kennedy
Science 2 February 2001: 789.
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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

Science 2 February 2001: 895-897.

News of the Week

SEISMOLOGY:
Tectonics, Design Combine for Indian Disaster--More Coming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 February 2001: 802-803.
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BIOINFORMATICS:
Hughes to Build Own Tech Research Center

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 2 February 2001: 803.
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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY:
Sugars Join the Automation Rush

Robert F. Service
Science 2 February 2001: 805-806.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
College Heads Pledge to Remove Barriers

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 February 2001: 806.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Bakers' Yeast Blooms Into Biofilms

Laura Helmuth
Science 2 February 2001: 806-807.
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RICE GENOME:
Syngenta Finishes, Consortium Goes On

R. John Davenport
Science 2 February 2001: 807.
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MATH EDUCATION:
Academy Report Aims to Quiet Debate

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 2 February 2001: 808.
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REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY:
Cloning: Could Humans Be Next?

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 February 2001: 808-809.
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PROTEIN FOLDING:
Virtual Molecules Nail Bacteria's Weapon

Dana Mackenzie
Science 2 February 2001: 809.
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PHILANTHROPY:
Gates Gives Booster Shot to AIDS Vaccines

Richard Brandt
Science 2 February 2001: 809-811.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Doubts Raised About Dinosaur Heart

Erik Stokstad
Science 2 February 2001: 811.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MEDICINE:
Gulf War Illness: The Battle Continues

Martin Enserink
Science 2 February 2001: 812-817.
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MEDICINE:
Congress Explores the Scientific Fringe

Martin Enserink
Science 2 February 2001: 814.
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MEDICINE:
Restoring Faith in the Pentagon

Martin Enserink
Science 2 February 2001: 816.
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ACADEMIC HARASSMENT:
Women Faculty Battle Japan's Koza System

Dennis Normile
Science 2 February 2001: 817-818.
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GERMAN UNIVERSITIES:
Humboldt Hits the Comeback Trail

Robert Koenig
Science 2 February 2001: 819-821.
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GERMAN UNIVERSITIES:
A Strong University Grows Stronger

Robert Koenig
Science 2 February 2001: 819.
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GERMAN UNIVERSITIES:
Teaming Up to Woo Young Hotshots

Robert Koenig
Science 2 February 2001: 821.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 February 2001: 827.
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 Sequence Data: Posted vs. Published

Richard W. Hyman
Science 2 February 2001: 827.
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 Atmospheric Ethics

Arthur H. Westing;, Paul Baer, John Harte, Barbara Haya, Antonia Herzog, Nate Hultman, Daniel M. Kammen, Richard B. Norgaard, John Holdren, and Leigh S. Raymond
Science 2 February 2001: 827-828.
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 Safety of Low-Cyanide Cultivars

A. Ian Robertson
Science 2 February 2001: 828.
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 Einstein's Motivation

Joseph Roy D. North
Science 2 February 2001: 828.
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 Museum Collections and Conservation Efforts

W. John Kress, Scott E. Miller, Gary A. Krupnick, and Thomas E. Lovejoy
Science 2 February 2001: 828-829.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Great Success of a "Foul Book"

David L. Hull
Science 2 February 2001: 833-834.
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PHYSICS:
Music of the Spheres

Matt Visser
Science 2 February 2001: 834.
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 Books Received

Science 2 February 2001: 834.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Is the Genome the Secular Equivalent of the Soul?

Alex Mauron
Science 2 February 2001: 831-832.
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Sniffing Out Odors with Multiple Dendrites

Yoshihiro Yoshihara, Hiroshi Nagao, and Kensaku Mori
Science 2 February 2001: 835-837.
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COSMOLOGY:
In Support of Inflation

Alejandro Gangui
Science 2 February 2001: 837-838.
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AGING:
When Do Telomeres Matter?

Jerry W. Shay and Woodring E. Wright
Science 2 February 2001: 839-840.
Published online 18 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058546] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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SEMICONDUCTORS:
Enhanced: Toward Functional Spintronics

Hideo Ohno
Science 2 February 2001: 840-841.
Published online 11 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058371] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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CHEMISTRY:
Aromatic Metal Clusters

Dong-Kyun Seo and John D. Corbett
Science 2 February 2001: 841-842.
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 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:
Nota Bene: Texas Elephants Stomp to Victory

Orla Smith
Science 2 February 2001: 842.
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Review

Protein Dynamics: Implications for Nuclear Architecture and Gene Expression

Tom Misteli
Science 2 February 2001: 843-847.
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Reports

Microstructured Magnetic Materials for RF Flux Guides in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

M. C. K. Wiltshire, J. B. Pendry, I. R. Young, D. J. Larkman, D. J. Gilderdale, and J. V. Hajnal
Science 2 February 2001: 849-851.
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Functional Nanoscale Electronic Devices Assembled Using Silicon Nanowire Building Blocks

Yi Cui and Charles M. Lieber
Science 2 February 2001: 851-853.
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Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in Transparent Transition Metal-Doped Titanium Dioxide

Yuji Matsumoto, Makoto Murakami, Tomoji Shono, Tetsuya Hasegawa, Tomoteru Fukumura, Masashi Kawasaki, Parhat Ahmet, Toyohiro Chikyow, Shin-ya Koshihara, and Hideomi Koinuma
Science 2 February 2001: 854-856.
Published online 11 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056186] (in Science Express Reports)
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First Solvation Shell of the Cu(II) Aqua Ion: Evidence for Fivefold Coordination

Alfredo Pasquarello, Ingrid Petri, Philip S. Salmon, Olivier Parisel, Roberto Car, Éva Tóth, D. Hugh Powell, Henry E. Fischer, Lothar Helm, and André Merbach
Science 2 February 2001: 856-859.
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Observation of All-Metal Aromatic Molecules

Xi Li, Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, Hai-Feng Zhang, Alexander I. Boldyrev, and Lai-Sheng Wang
Science 2 February 2001: 859-861.
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Inland Thinning of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica

Andrew Shepherd, Duncan J. Wingham, Justin A. D. Mansley, and Hugh F. J. Corr
Science 2 February 2001: 862-864.
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Scale Dependence in Plant Biodiversity

M. J. Crawley and J. E. Harral
Science 2 February 2001: 864-868.
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Lack of Replicative Senescence in Cultured Rat Oligodendrocyte Precursor Cells

Dean G. Tang, Yasuhito M. Tokumoto, James A. Apperly, Alison C. Lloyd, and Martin C. Raff
Science 2 February 2001: 868-871.
Published online 18 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056780] (in Science Express Reports)
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Lack of Replicative Senescence in Normal Rodent Glia

Nicole F. Mathon, Denise S. Malcolm, Marie C. Harrisingh, Lili Cheng, and Alison C. Lloyd
Science 2 February 2001: 872-875.
Published online 18 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056782] (in Science Express Reports)
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Control of Fusion Pore Dynamics During Exocytosis by Munc18

Richard J. Fisher, Jonathan Pevsner, and Robert D. Burgoyne
Science 2 February 2001: 875-878.
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Bakers' Yeast, a Model for Fungal Biofilm Formation

Todd B. Reynolds and Gerald R. Fink
Science 2 February 2001: 878-881.
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Molecular Analysis of Commensal Host-Microbial Relationships in the Intestine

Lora V. Hooper, Melissa H. Wong, Anders Thelin, Lennart Hansson, Per G. Falk, and Jeffrey I. Gordon
Science 2 February 2001: 881-884.
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Protein Design of an HIV-1 Entry Inhibitor

Michael J. Root, Michael S. Kay, and Peter S. Kim
Science 2 February 2001: 884-888.
Published online 11 January 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057453] (in Science Express Reports)
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Dynamic Optimization of Odor Representations by Slow Temporal Patterning of Mitral Cell Activity

Rainer W. Friedrich and Gilles Laurent
Science 2 February 2001: 889-894.
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Technical Comments

 Dinosaur with a Heart of Stone

Timothy Rowe, Earle F. McBride, Paul C. Sereno, Dale A. Russell, Paul E. Fisher, Reese E. Barrick, and Michael K. Stoskopf
Science 2 February 2001: 783.
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