This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Better Future for European Science?

Reinder J. van Duinen
Science 4 May 2001: 809.
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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

GENOME SEQUENCING:
Celera Assembles Mouse Genome; Public Labs Plan New Strategy

Eliot Marshall
Science 4 May 2001: 822-823.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Echoes of the Big Bang Put Theories in Tune

Charles Seife
Science 4 May 2001: 823.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Loopy Electron Model Solves Ion Mystery

Charles Seife
Science 4 May 2001: 823-825.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Liquid Crystal Displays Rub Out the Rub

Robert F. Service
Science 4 May 2001: 825-826.
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DIGITAL SECURITY:
Music Industry Strikes Sour Note for Academics

David Voss
Science 4 May 2001: 826-827.
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ORIGINS OF BSE:
Intriguing Clues to a Scrapie-Mad Cow Link

Michael Balter
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SCIENCE AND COMMERCE:
Few Authors Disclose Conflicts, Survey Finds

Constance Holden
Science 4 May 2001: 829.
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FRENCH UNIVERSITIES:
Reform Plan Seen as Halting Step

Michael Balter
Science 4 May 2001: 829.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

LOBBYING:
Perfecting the Art of the Science Deal

David Malakoff
Science 4 May 2001: 830-835.
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LOBBYING:
Can ASTRA Restore a Glow to the Physical Sciences?

David Malakoff
Science 4 May 2001: 832.
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LOBBYING:
Tools of the Trade

David Malakoff
Science 4 May 2001: 833.
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LOBBYING:
Faces in the Crowd

David Malakoff
Science 4 May 2001: 834.
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LOBBYING:
Hawaii Rides a Wave of Research Earmarks

David Malakoff
Science 4 May 2001: 835.
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ALBANIA:
Physicist-President Battles Ethnic Wars and Illiteracy

Richard Stone
Science 4 May 2001: 836-837.
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SOCIETY OF TOXICOLOGY MEETING:
Toxicologists Hit the West Coast

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 4 May 2001: 837-838.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
New Clue to How the Cell Controls Its Proteins

Jean Marx
Science 4 May 2001: 838-839.
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GEODYNAMICS:
A Lively or Stagnant Lowermost Mantle?

Richard A. Kerr
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Continuing Research into Gulf War Illness

Greg Karras and Garth Nicolson
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 Statistics: What Seems Natural?

Brian Butterworth;, Ulrich Hoffrage, Samuel Lindsey, Ralph Hertwig, and Gerd Gigerenzer
Science 4 May 2001: 853-855.
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 The Bioenergetics of the Immune System

Graham M. Lord, Giuseppe Matarese, Jane K. Howard, Yannick Moret, and Paul Schmid-Hempel
Science 4 May 2001: 855-856.
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 A Metaphor for the Map

William P. Schrader
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MEDICINE:
Waiting for Vaccine

Robin A. Weiss
Science 4 May 2001: 862-863.
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COSMOCHEMISTRY:
We Are Made of Starstuff

Craig J. Hogan
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The End for Indonesia's Lowland Forests?

Paul Jepson, James K. Jarvie, Kathy MacKinnon, and Kathryn A. Monk
Science 4 May 2001: 859-861.
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Perspectives

APOPTOSIS:
Death of a Monopoly?

Stéphane Hunot and Richard A. Flavell
Science 4 May 2001: 865-866.
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LIQUIDS:
Putting Liquids Under Molecular-Scale Confinement

Jacob Israelachvili and Delphine Gourdon
Science 4 May 2001: 867-868.
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RIBOSOME STRUCTURE:
The Ribosome in Action

Albert E. Dahlberg
Science 4 May 2001: 868-869.
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INTERSTELLAR CHEMISTRY:
Tunneling Reactions in Interstellar Ices

Kenzo Hiraoka, Tetsuya Sato, and Toshikazu Takayama
Science 4 May 2001: 869-870.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Enhanced: CO₂ and Climate Change

Thomas J. Crowley and Robert A. Berner
Science 4 May 2001: 870-872.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Unwrapping Glial Cells from the Synapse: What Lies Inside?

Vittorio Gallo and Ramesh Chittajallu
Science 4 May 2001: 872-873.
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Research Articles

Crystal Structure of the Ribosome at 5.5 Å Resolution

Marat M. Yusupov, Gulnara Zh. Yusupova, Albion Baucom, Kate Lieberman, Thomas N. Earnest, J. H. D. Cate, and Harry F. Noller
Science 4 May 2001: 883-896.
Published online 29 March 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060089] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Recognition of Cognate Transfer RNA by the 30S Ribosomal Subunit

James M. Ogle, Ditlev E. Brodersen, William M. Clemons, Jr., Michael J. Tarry, Andrew P. Carter, and V. Ramakrishnan
Science 4 May 2001: 897-902.
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Reports

Feynman's Path-Integral Approach for Intense-Laser-Atom Interactions

P. Salières, B. Carré, L. Le Déroff, F. Grasbon, G. G. Paulus, H. Walther, R. Kopold, W. Becker, D. B. Miloevi, A. Sanpera, and M. Lewenstein
Science 4 May 2001: 902-905.
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Density Fluctuations Under Confinement: When Is a Fluid Not a Fluid?

M. Heuberger, M. Zäch, and N. D. Spencer
Science 4 May 2001: 905-908.
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Water at Hydrophobic Surfaces: Weak Hydrogen Bonding and Strong Orientation Effects

L. F. Scatena, M. G. Brown, and G. L. Richmond
Science 4 May 2001: 908-912.
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Controlled Rotation of Optically Trapped Microscopic Particles

L. Paterson, M. P. MacDonald, J. Arlt, W. Sibbett, P. E. Bryant, and K. Dholakia
Science 4 May 2001: 912-914.
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Phonon Density of States of Iron up to 153 Gigapascals

H. K. Mao, J. Xu, V. V. Struzhkin, J. Shu, R. J. Hemley, W. Sturhahn, M. Y. Hu, E. E. Alp, L. Vocadlo, D. Alfè, G. D. Price, M. J. Gillan, M. Schwoerer-Böhning, D. Häusermann, P. Eng, G. Shen, H. Giefers, R. Lübbers, and G. Wortmann
Science 4 May 2001: 914-916.
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Production of Refractory Dissolved Organic Matter by Bacteria

Hiroshi Ogawa, Yukio Amagai, Isao Koike, Karl Kaiser, and Ronald Benner
Science 4 May 2001: 917-920.
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Requirement of Phospholipase C4 for the Zona Pellucida-Induced Acrosome Reaction

Kiyoko Fukami, Kazuki Nakao, Takafumi Inoue, Yuki Kataoka, Manabu Kurokawa, Rafael A. Fissore, Kenji Nakamura, Motoya Katsuki, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Nobuaki Yoshida, and Tadaomi Takenawa
Science 4 May 2001: 920-923.
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Control of Glutamate Clearance and Synaptic Efficacy by Glial Coverage of Neurons

Stéphane H. R. Oliet, Richard Piet, and Dominique A. Poulain
Science 4 May 2001: 923-926.
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Glia-Synapse Interaction Through Ca²⁺-Permeable AMPA Receptors in Bergmann Glia

Masae Iino, Kaori Goto, Wataru Kakegawa, Haruo Okado, Makoto Sudo, Shogo Ishiuchi, Akiko Miwa, Yukihiro Takayasu, Izumu Saito, Keisuke Tsuzuki, and Seiji Ozawa
Science 4 May 2001: 926-929.
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Integrated Genomic and Proteomic Analyses of a Systematically Perturbed Metabolic Network

Trey Ideker, Vesteinn Thorsson, Jeffrey A. Ranish, Rowan Christmas, Jeremy Buhler, Jimmy K. Eng, Roger Bumgarner, David R. Goodlett, Ruedi Aebersold, and Leroy Hood
Science 4 May 2001: 929-934.
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Vital Involvement of a Natural Killer Cell Activation Receptor in Resistance to Viral Infection

Michael G. Brown, Ayotunde O. Dokun, Jonathan W. Heusel, Hamish R. C. Smith, Diana L. Beckman, Erika A. Blattenberger, Chad E. Dubbelde, Laurie R. Stone, Anthony A. Scalzo, and Wayne M. Yokoyama
Science 4 May 2001: 934-937.
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Technical Comments

 Bacterial Genomic Reorganization upon DNA Replication

Shin-ichi Makino, Masashi Suzuki, Yvan Zivanovic, Hannu Myllykallio, and Patrick Forterre
Science 4 May 2001: 803.
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