This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Conserving Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Patricia Balvanera, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich, Taylor H. Ricketts, Sallie-Anne Bailey, Salit Kark, Claire Kremen, and Henrique Pereira
Science 16 March 2001: 2047.
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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 16 March 2001: 2179-2181.

News of the Week

FINANCIAL CONFLICT:
Universities Puncture Modest Regulatory Trial Balloon

Eliot Marshall
Science 16 March 2001: 2060.
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PARKINSON'S RESEARCH:
Fetal Cell Transplant Trial Draws Fire

Gretchen Vogel
Science 16 March 2001: 2060-2061.
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HUMAN CLONING:
Experts Assail Plan to Help Childless Couples

John Pickrell
Science 16 March 2001: 2061-2063.
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GENDER EQUITY:
NSF Program Targets Institutional Change

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 March 2001: 2063-2064.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Dyslexia: Same Brains, Different Languages

Laura Helmuth
Science 16 March 2001: 2064-2065.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
How Bacterial Flagella Flip Their Switch

Dennis Normile
Science 16 March 2001: 2065-2067.
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ASTRONOMY:
Stars Rise From Ashes in Globular Cluster

Govert Schilling
Science 16 March 2001: 2067.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

INNATE IMMUNITY:
Ancient System Gets New Respect

Trisha Gura
Science 16 March 2001: 2068-2071.
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INNATE IMMUNITY:
Engineering Protection for Plants

Trisha Gura
Science 16 March 2001: 2070.
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BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Crossover Research Yields Scents and Sensitivity

R. John Davenport
Science 16 March 2001: 2071-2072.
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RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS:
NASA Lab Offers Land to Lure Research Partners

Andrew Lawler
Science 16 March 2001: 2073.
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DEMOGRAPHY:
Sardinia's Mysterious Male Methuselahs

Robert Koenig
Science 16 March 2001: 2074-2076.
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DEMOGRAPHY:
An Island of 'Genetic Parks'

Robert Koenig
Science 16 March 2001: 2075.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Does Alcohol Damage Female Brains More?

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 16 March 2001: 2077-2079.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 16 March 2001: 2089.
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 Deterring Bioweapons Development

Mark Wheelis
Science 16 March 2001: 2089.
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 Moribund Funding in Agricultural Research

G. Philip Robertson, Peter J. Barry, Francis F. Busta, Robert J. Collier, Noel T. Keen, Ronald R. Sederoff, William W. Simpkins, Frederick Stormshak, and Thomas N. Urban
Science 16 March 2001: 2089-2090.
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 Porous Sediments at the Top of Earth's Core?

S. A. Morse;, Bruce Buffett, Edward Garnero, and Raymond Jeanloz
Science 16 March 2001: 2090-2093.
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 Tale of Two Kings

Cenk Sumen
Science 16 March 2001: 2093.
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Books et al.

POLITICAL SCIENCE:
Killing Other Peoples

Sudhir Kakar
Science 16 March 2001: 2097.
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ASTRONOMY:
Painting the Skies

Virginia Trimble
Science 16 March 2001: 2097-2098.
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 Browsings

Science 16 March 2001: 2098.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Whither After The Hague?

Klaus Töpfer
Science 16 March 2001: 2095-2096.
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
How to Stimulate Your Partner

Anne M. Villeneuve
Science 16 March 2001: 2099-2101.
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GEOLOGY:
The Deadliest Intraplate Earthquake

Harsh K. Gupta, N. Purnachandra Rao, B. K. Rastogi, and Dipankar Sarkar
Science 16 March 2001: 2101-2102.
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TRANSDUCTION:
When Worlds Collide--Trafficking in JNK

Lawrence S. B. Goldstein
Science 16 March 2001: 2102-2103.
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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Enemy of My Enemy Is My Ally

M. W. Sabelis, A. Janssen, and M. R. Kant
Science 16 March 2001: 2104-2105.
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CHEMISTRY:
A Light-Driven Linear Motor at the Molecular Level

Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Science 16 March 2001: 2105-2106.
Published online 22 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059590] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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CHEMISTRY:
Water on the Move

Michael L. Klein
Science 16 March 2001: 2106-2107.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Herbert A. Simon, 1916-2001

Edward A. Feigenbaum
Science 16 March 2001: 2107.
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Tech.Sight

Secondary Considerations

John T. Pelton
Science 16 March 2001: 2175-2176.
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Reports

Colloidal Nanocrystal Shape and Size Control: The Case of Cobalt

Victor F. Puntes, Kannan M. Krishnan, and A. Paul Alivisatos
Science 16 March 2001: 2115-2117.
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Dynamics of Water Molecules in Aqueous Solvation Shells

M. F. Kropman and H. J. Bakker
Science 16 March 2001: 2118-2120.
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Autoionization in Liquid Water

Phillip L. Geissler, Christoph Dellago, David Chandler, Jürg Hutter, and Michele Parrinello
Science 16 March 2001: 2121-2124.
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Photoinduction of Fast, Reversible Translational Motion in a Hydrogen-Bonded Molecular Shuttle

Albert M. Brouwer, Céline Frochot, Francesco G. Gatti, David A. Leigh, Loïc Mottier, Francesco Paolucci, Sergio Roffia, and George W. H. Wurpel
Science 16 March 2001: 2124-2128.
Published online 22 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057886] (in Science Express Reports)
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Tropical Tropospheric Ozone and Biomass Burning

Anne M. Thompson, Jacquelyn C. Witte, Robert D. Hudson, Hua Guo, Jay R. Herman, and Masatomo Fujiwara
Science 16 March 2001: 2128-2132.
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Synchronous Tropical South China Sea SST Change and Greenland Warming During Deglaciation

M. Kienast, S. Steinke, K. Stattegger, and S. E. Calvert
Science 16 March 2001: 2132-2134.
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Role of the ABC Transporter Mdl1 in Peptide Export from Mitochondria

Lesley Young, Klaus Leonhard, Takashi Tatsuta, John Trowsdale, and Thomas Langer
Science 16 March 2001: 2135-2138.
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Arabidopsis NPL1: A Phototropin Homolog Controlling the Chloroplast High-Light Avoidance Response

Takatoshi Kagawa, Tatsuya Sakai, Noriyuki Suetsugu, Kazusato Oikawa, Sumie Ishiguro, Tomohiko Kato, Satoshi Tabata, Kiyotaka Okada, and Masamitsu Wada
Science 16 March 2001: 2138-2141.
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Defensive Function of Herbivore-Induced Plant Volatile Emissions in Nature

André Kessler and Ian T. Baldwin
Science 16 March 2001: 2141-2144.
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A Sperm Cytoskeletal Protein That Signals Oocyte Meiotic Maturation and Ovulation

Michael A. Miller, Viet Q. Nguyen, Min-Ho Lee, Mary Kosinski, Tim Schedl, Richard M. Caprioli, and David Greenstein
Science 16 March 2001: 2144-2147.
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Sonic Hedgehog Control of Size and Shape in Midbrain Pattern Formation

Seema Agarwala, Timothy A. Sanders, and Clifton W. Ragsdale
Science 16 March 2001: 2147-2150.
Published online 1 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058624] (in Science Express Reports)
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Structure of an Extracellular gp130 Cytokine Receptor Signaling Complex

Dar-chone Chow, Xiao-lin He, Andrew L. Snow, Stefan Rose-John, and K. Christopher Garcia
Science 16 March 2001: 2150-2155.
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5'-Deoxyribose Phosphate Lyase Activity of Human DNA Polymerase  in Vitro

Katarzyna Bebenek, Agnès Tissier, Ekaterina G. Frank, John P. McDonald, Rajendra Prasad, Samuel H. Wilson, Roger Woodgate, and Thomas A. Kunkel
Science 16 March 2001: 2156-2159.
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An RNA Ligase Essential for RNA Editing and Survival of the Bloodstream Form of Trypanosoma brucei

Achim Schnaufer, Aswini K. Panigrahi, Brian Panicucci, Robert P. Igo, Jr., Reza Salavati, and Kenneth Stuart
Science 16 March 2001: 2159-2162.
Published online 15 February 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058955] (in Science Express Reports)
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Defective Lymphotoxin- Receptor-Induced NF-B Transcriptional Activity in NIK-Deficient Mice

Li Yin, Lin Wu, Holger Wesche, Cora D. Arthur, J. Michael White, David V. Goeddel, and Robert D. Schreiber
Science 16 March 2001: 2162-2165.
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Dyslexia: Cultural Diversity and Biological Unity

E. Paulesu, J.-F. Démonet, F. Fazio, E. McCrory, V. Chanoine, N. Brunswick, S. F. Cappa, G. Cossu, M. Habib, C. D. Frith, and U. Frith
Science 16 March 2001: 2165-2167.
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Technical Comments

 O₂^- Ions and the Mars Labeled Release Response

Gilbert V. Levin, A. S. Yen, S. S. Kim, M. H. Hecht, M. S. Frant, and B. Murray
Science 16 March 2001: 2041.
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