This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Inadvertently Crossing the Germ Line

Erik Parens and Eric Juengst
Science 20 April 2001: 397.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 20 April 2001: 403.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 20 April 2001: 519-521.

News of the Week

EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Intensified Battle Against Foot and Mouth Appears to Pay Off

Martin Enserink
Science 20 April 2001: 410.
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UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER:
Researcher Sues After School Spent His Grant

Constance Holden
Science 20 April 2001: 411.
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X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY:
Transcription Enzyme Structure Solved

Jean Marx
Science 20 April 2001: 411-414.
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ECOLOGY:
Birds Weigh Risk Before Protecting Their Young

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 April 2001: 414-415.
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MICROARRAYS:
Data Standards on the Horizon

R. John Davenport
Science 20 April 2001: 414-415.
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STEM CELLS:
NIH Pulls Plug on Ethics Review

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 April 2001: 415-416.
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JAPAN:
Women Academics Propose Steps to Equity

Dennis Normile
Science 20 April 2001: 416.
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WORKFORCE DIVERSITY:
NSF Makes the BEST of a Good Idea

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 April 2001: 416-417.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY:
Elephant Matriarchs Tell Friend From Foe

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 April 2001: 417-419.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING:
Souped-Up Software Gets a Virtual Test

Mark K. Anderson
Science 20 April 2001: 419.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NUCLEAR RADIATION:
Living in the Shadow of Chornobyl

Richard Stone
Science 20 April 2001: 420-426.
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NUCLEAR RADIATION:
Genetic Studies of Wildlife in the Hot Zone Reach Different Conclusions

Richard Stone
Science 20 April 2001: 421.
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NUCLEAR RADIATION:
Dealing With a Slumbering Hulk

Richard Stone
Science 20 April 2001: 422-423.
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NUCLEAR RADIATION:
Ordeals of a Dissenter

Richard Stone
Science 20 April 2001: 424.
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NUCLEAR RADIATION:
Rewards of a Volunteer

Richard Stone
Science 20 April 2001: 425.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Do Centrosome Abnormalities Lead to Cancer?

Jean Marx
Science 20 April 2001: 426-429.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
The Hottest Stem Cells Are Also the Toughest

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 April 2001: 429.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 20 April 2001: 437-440.
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 Proposed Research Budget a Starting Point

Paul G. Rogers
Science 20 April 2001: 437.
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 Marine Iguanas Oiled in the Galápagos

Martin Wikelski, L. Michael Romero, and Howard L. Snell
Science 20 April 2001: 437-438.
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 Removing CO₂ from Lake Nyos in Cameroon

Jean-Christophe Sabroux and Michel Halbwachs
Science 20 April 2001: 438.
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 Mutation in Embryonic Stem Cells

Louis Roccanova, Patricia Ramphal, Philip Rappa III;, Calvin B. Harley, Jane S. Lebkowski, Melissa K. Carpenter, and Thomas B. Okarma
Science 20 April 2001: 438-440.
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 More About Duikers in Ancient Egypt

Diane Victoria Flores
Science 20 April 2001: 440.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MATHEMATICS AND ART:
Algorithms of Boundless Beauty

Gregory Buck
Science 20 April 2001: 445-446.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Nota Bene: A Last Hurrah and New Directions

Lisa Chong
Science 20 April 2001: 446.
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 Books Received

Science 20 April 2001: 446.

Policy Forum

BIOMEDICINE:
The NASA-NCI Collaboration on Biomolecular Sensors

Daniel S. Goldin, Carol A. Dahl, Kathie L. Olsen, Louis H. Ostrach, and Richard D. Klausner
Science 20 April 2001: 443-444.
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Perspectives

PHOTOSYNTHESIS:
Splitting Water

G. C. Dismukes
Science 20 April 2001: 447-448.
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ECOLOGY:
The Advantages of Togetherness

Edward Cox and John Bonner
Science 20 April 2001: 448-449.
Published online 29 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060456] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
How Do Cells Sense Oxygen?

Hao Zhu and H. Franklin Bunn
Science 20 April 2001: 449-451.
Published online 5 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060849] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION:
Enhanced: A New Trick of the Trade

Massimo Inguscio
Science 20 April 2001: 452.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Invading the Genetic Code

August Böck
Science 20 April 2001: 453-454.
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COMMUNICATION:
Retrospective: Claude E. Shannon (1916-2001)

Solomon W. Golomb
Science 20 April 2001: 455.
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Tech.Sight

Sequencing Genomes and Beyond

Deirdre R. Meldrum
Science 20 April 2001: 515-517.
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Research Articles

A Bose-Einstein Condensate of Metastable Atoms

A. Robert, O. Sirjean, A. Browaeys, J. Poupard, S. Nowak, D. Boiron, C. I. Westbrook, and A. Aspect
Science 20 April 2001: 461-464.
Published online 22 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060622] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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HIF Targeted for VHL-Mediated Destruction by Proline Hydroxylation: Implications for O₂ Sensing

Mircea Ivan, Keiichi Kondo, Haifeng Yang, William Kim, Jennifer Valiando, Michael Ohh, Adrian Salic, John M. Asara, William S. Lane, and William G. Kaelin, Jr.
Science 20 April 2001: 464-468.
Published online 5 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059817] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Targeting of HIF- to the von Hippel-Lindau Ubiquitylation Complex by O₂-Regulated Prolyl Hydroxylation

Panu Jaakkola, David R. Mole, Ya-Min Tian, Michael I. Wilson, Janine Gielbert, Simon J. Gaskell, Alexander von Kriegsheim, Holger F. Hebestreit, Mridul Mukherji, Christopher J. Schofield, Patrick H. Maxwell, Christopher W. Pugh, and Peter J. Ratcliffe
Science 20 April 2001: 468-472.
Published online 5 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059796] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

A Quantum Adiabatic Evolution Algorithm Applied to Random Instances of an NP-Complete Problem

Edward Farhi, Jeffrey Goldstone, Sam Gutmann, Joshua Lapan, Andrew Lundgren, and Daniel Preda
Science 20 April 2001: 472-475.
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Observation of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates

J. R. Abo-Shaeer, C. Raman, J. M. Vogels, and W. Ketterle
Science 20 April 2001: 476-479.
Published online 22 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060182] (in Science Express Reports)
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Self-Assembly of Subnanometer-Diameter Single-Wall MoS₂ Nanotubes

Maja Remskar, Ales Mrzel, Zora Skraba, Adolf Jesih, Miran Ceh, Jure Demar, Pierre Stadelmann, Francis Lévy, and Dragan Mihailovic
Science 20 April 2001: 479-481.
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Probing the Structure of Metal Cluster-Adsorbate Systems with High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy

K. Nauta, D. T. Moore, P. L. Stiles, and R. E. Miller
Science 20 April 2001: 481-484.
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Imaging of Small-Scale Features on 433 Eros from NEAR: Evidence for a Complex Regolith

J. Veverka, P. C. Thomas, M. Robinson, S. Murchie, C. Chapman, M. Bell, A. Harch, W. J. Merline, J. F. Bell, III, B. Bussey, B. Carcich, A. Cheng, B. Clark, D. Domingue, D. Dunham, R. Farquhar, M. J. Gaffey, E. Hawkins, N. Izenberg, J. Joseph, R. Kirk, H. Li, P. Lucey, M. Malin, L. McFadden, J. K. Miller, W. M. Owen, Jr., C. Peterson, L. Prockter, J. Warren, D. Wellnitz, B. G. Williams, and D. K. Yeomans
Science 20 April 2001: 484-488.
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Laser Altimetry of Small-Scale Features on 433 Eros from NEAR-Shoemaker

Andrew F. Cheng, Olivier Barnouin-Jha, Maria T. Zuber, Joseph Veverka, David E. Smith, Gregory A. Neumann, Mark Robinson, Peter Thomas, James B. Garvin, Scott Murchie, Clark Chapman, and Louise Prockter
Science 20 April 2001: 488-491.
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Matriarchs As Repositories of Social Knowledge in African Elephants

Karen McComb, Cynthia Moss, Sarah M. Durant, Lucy Baker, and Soila Sayialel
Science 20 April 2001: 491-494.
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Fecundity-Survival Trade-Offs and Parental Risk-Taking in Birds

Cameron K. Ghalambor and Thomas E. Martin
Science 20 April 2001: 494-497.
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Expanding the Genetic Code of Escherichia coli

Lei Wang, Ansgar Brock, Brad Herberich, and Peter G. Schultz
Science 20 April 2001: 498-500.
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Enlarging the Amino Acid Set of Escherichia coli by Infiltration of the Valine Coding Pathway

Volker Döring, Henning D. Mootz, Leslie A. Nangle, Tamara L. Hendrickson, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, Paul Schimmel, and Philippe Marlière
Science 20 April 2001: 501-504.
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Cooperation and Competition in the Evolution of ATP-Producing Pathways

Thomas Pfeiffer, Stefan Schuster, and Sebastian Bonhoeffer
Science 20 April 2001: 504-507.
Published online 29 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1058079] (in Science Express Reports)
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astray, a Zebrafish roundabout Homolog Required for Retinal Axon Guidance

Cornelia Fricke, Jeong-Soo Lee, Silke Geiger-Rudolph, Friedrich Bonhoeffer, and Chi-Bin Chien
Science 20 April 2001: 507-510.
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Fast Backprojections from the Motion to the Primary Visual Area Necessary for Visual Awareness

Alvaro Pascual-Leone and Vincent Walsh
Science 20 April 2001: 510-512.
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