This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
vCJD: Broad U.S. Response Required

Bernadine Healy
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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

GENOMES:
Rat Genome Spurs an Unusual Partnership

Eliot Marshall
Science 9 March 2001: 1872.
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MALARIA RESEARCH:
Sequencing Set for Dreaded Mosquito

Michael Balter
Science 9 March 2001: 1873.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Heavy Damage Feared After Taliban Decree

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 March 2001: 1873-1875.
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ASTROBIOLOGY:
Are Martian 'Pearl Chains' Signs of Life?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 March 2001: 1875-1876.
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GERMAN SCIENCE:
New Money to Lure Talent From Abroad

Robert Koenig
Science 9 March 2001: 1876.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Fallout From German Fraud Case Continues

Robert Koenig
Science 9 March 2001: 1876-1877.
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QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS:
Quark Quirk Triggers Nuclear Shrinkage

Charles Seife
Science 9 March 2001: 1877-1878.
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PHILANTHROPY:
Russian Billionaires Launch Science Fund

Vladimir Pokrovsky, Andrey Allakhverdov, and and Marina Astvatsaturyan
Science 9 March 2001: 1878.
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CHINA:
Academician to Lead Science Ministry

Yimin Ding
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BEHAVIORAL GENETICS:
Study Suggests Pitch Perception Is Inherited

Constance Holden
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AIDS VACCINES:
Long-Lasting Immunity Conferred in Monkeys

Jon Cohen
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PRION RESEARCH:
Getting Yeast Prions to Bridge the Species Gap

R. John Davenport
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

POLICY:
Science Lobbyists Aim for Better Balanced Budget

David Malakoff
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POLICY:
Budget Could Send Space Science Off in New Directions at NASA

Andrew Lawler
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BOTANY:
Patience Yields Secrets of Seed Longevity

Kathryn Brown
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ENGINEERING EDUCATION:
Olin Puts Up $500 Million for 'No-Excuses' College

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 9 March 2001: 1886-1889.
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ENGINEERING EDUCATION:
Academic Excellence Is Just a Start for Prospective Students at Olin

Jeffrey Mervis
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PORTUGAL:
Money and Charisma Help the Science Tide Come In

Richard Stone
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MIR SPACE STATION:
Fiery Demise Spells End of Longest Research Run

Elena Savelyeva, Andrey Allakhverdov, and Andrew Lawler
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Choosing the Sources of Sustainable Energy

Per F. Peterson; and Terry Collins
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 Longisquama Fossil and Feather Morphology

Richard O. Prum;, D. M. Unwin, M. J. Benton;, Terry D. Jones, John A. Ruben, Paul F. A. Maderson, and Larry D. Martin
Science 9 March 2001: 1899-1902.
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 Bird Song in His Heart

Renato Baserga
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EARTH SYSTEMS:
A Goddess of Earth or the Imagination of a Man?

Stephen H. Schneider
Science 9 March 2001: 1906-1907.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Culturing American Life

Audra J. Wolfe
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Proliferation of National Institutes of Health

Harold Varmus
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Erosion by the Solar Wind

Rickard Lundin
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DEVELOPMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE:
Moving On

Barry J. Dickson
Science 9 March 2001: 1910-1911.
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LASER PHYSICS:
Toward Attosecond Pulses

Derryck T. Reid
Science 9 March 2001: 1911-1913.
Published online 15 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059499] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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PALEONTOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
The Origins of Modern Corals

George D. Stanley Jr. and Daphne G. Fautin
Science 9 March 2001: 1913-1914.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Signaling Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococci

Gordon L. Archer and Joseph M. Bosilevac
Science 9 March 2001: 1915-1916.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
RNP Remodeling With DExH/D Boxes

Cindy L. Will and Reinhard Lührmann
Science 9 March 2001: 1916-1917.
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Research Articles

X-ray Pulses Approaching the Attosecond Frontier

Markus Drescher, Michael Hentschel, Reinhard Kienberger, Gabriel Tempea, Christian Spielmann, Georg A. Reider, Paul B. Corkum, and Ferenc Krausz
Science 9 March 2001: 1923-1927.
Published online 15 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058561] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Hierarchical Organization of Guidance Receptors: Silencing of Netrin Attraction by Slit Through a Robo/DCC Receptor Complex

Elke Stein and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Science 9 March 2001: 1928-1938.
Published online 8 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058445] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

On Atmospheric Loss of Oxygen Ions from Earth Through Magnetospheric Processes

K. Seki, R. C. Elphic, M. Hirahara, T. Terasawa, and T. Mukai
Science 9 March 2001: 1939-1941.
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Quantum Mechanical Actuation of Microelectromechanical Systems by the Casimir Force

H. B. Chan, V. A. Aksyuk, R. N. Kleiman, D. J. Bishop, and Federico Capasso
Science 9 March 2001: 1941-1944.
Published online 8 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057984] (in Science Express Reports)
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Spherical Bilayer Vesicles of Fullerene-Based Surfactants in Water: A Laser Light Scattering Study

Shuiqin Zhou, Christian Burger, Benjamin Chu, Masaya Sawamura, Noriaki Nagahama, Motoki Toganoh, Ulrich E. Hackler, Hiroyuki Isobe, and Eiichi Nakamura
Science 9 March 2001: 1944-1947.
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Nanobelts of Semiconducting Oxides

Zheng Wei Pan, Zu Rong Dai, and Zhong Lin Wang
Science 9 March 2001: 1947-1949.
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High Macromolecular Synthesis with Low Metabolic Cost in Antarctic Sea Urchin Embryos

Adam G. Marsh, Robert E. Maxson, Jr., and Donal T. Manahan
Science 9 March 2001: 1950-1952.
Published online 15 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056341] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Short Duration of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary Event: Evidence from Extraterrestrial Helium-3

S. Mukhopadhyay, K. A. Farley, and A. Montanari
Science 9 March 2001: 1952-1955.
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Continuous Mantle Melt Supply Beneath an Overlapping Spreading Center on the East Pacific Rise

Robert A. Dunn, Douglas R. Toomey, Robert S. Detrick, and William S. D. Wilcock
Science 9 March 2001: 1955-1958.
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Hepatitis C Virus IRES RNA-Induced Changes in the Conformation of the 40S Ribosomal Subunit

Christian M. T. Spahn, Jeffrey S. Kieft, Robert A. Grassucci, Pawel A. Penczek, Kaihong Zhou, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Joachim Frank
Science 9 March 2001: 1959-1962.
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A Proteolytic Transmembrane Signaling Pathway and Resistance to -Lactams in Staphylococci

H. Z. Zhang, C. J. Hackbarth, K. M. Chansky, and H. F. Chambers
Science 9 March 2001: 1962-1965.
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Recovery of Infectious Ebola Virus from Complementary DNA: RNA Editing of the GP Gene and Viral Cytotoxicity

Viktor E. Volchkov, Valentina A. Volchkova, Elke Mühlberger, Larissa V. Kolesnikova, Michael Weik, Olga Dolnik, and Hans-Dieter Klenk
Science 9 March 2001: 1965-1969.
Published online 1 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057269] (in Science Express Reports)
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Genetic Correlates of Musical Pitch Recognition in Humans

Dennis Drayna, Ani Manichaikul, Marlies de Lange, Harold Snieder, and Tim Spector
Science 9 March 2001: 1969-1972.
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Presynaptic Kainate Receptor Mediation of Frequency Facilitation at Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Synapses

Dietmar Schmitz, Jack Mellor, and Roger A. Nicoll
Science 9 March 2001: 1972-1976.
Published online 8 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057105] (in Science Express Reports)
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Binding of DCC by Netrin-1 to Mediate Axon Guidance Independent of Adenosine A2B Receptor Activation

Elke Stein, Yimin Zou, Mu-ming Poo, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Science 9 March 2001: 1976-1982.
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Filopodial Calcium Transients Promote Substrate-Dependent Growth Cone Turning

Timothy M. Gomez, Estuardo Robles, Mu-ming Poo, and Nicholas C. Spitzer
Science 9 March 2001: 1983-1987.
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Requirement for the SLP-76 Adaptor GADS in T Cell Development

Jeff Yoder, Christine Pham, Yoshie-Matsubayashi Iizuka, Osami Kanagawa, Stanley K. Liu, Jane McGlade, and Alec M. Cheng
Science 9 March 2001: 1987-1991.
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Technical Comments

 Examining Evidence of Reproductive Isolation in Sockeye Salmon

Daniel J. Howard, Jeremy L. Marshall, W. Evan Braswell, Jerry A. Coyne, Andrew P. Hendry, John K. Wenburg, Paul Bentzen, Eric Volk, and Thomas P. Quinn
Science 9 March 2001: 1853.
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