This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Science of Elections

Steven J. Brams and Dudley R. Herschbach
Science 25 May 2001: 1449.
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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 25 May 2001: 1559-1561.

 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

U.S. ENERGY POLICY:
Administration's Energy Plan Is Short on Scientific Details

David Malakoff
Science 25 May 2001: 1462-1463.
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS:
Court Asked to Declare NIH Guidelines Legal

Gretchen Vogel
Science 25 May 2001: 1463.
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U.S. SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Lawmakers Vie to Shape NSF Program

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 25 May 2001: 1463-1465.
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EUROPEAN HIGHER EDUCATION:
Thirty Nations Pledge to Harmonize Degrees

Robert Koenig
Science 25 May 2001: 1465-1466.
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HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION:
Bioethics Panel Urges Broader Oversight

Eliot Marshall
Science 25 May 2001: 1466-1467.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Protein Clumps Hijack Cell's Clearance System

Laura Helmuth
Science 25 May 2001: 1467-1468.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
New Clue to the Cause of Alzheimer's

Jean Marx
Science 25 May 2001: 1468.
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SOLID STATE PHYSICS:
Rubbery Liquid Crystal Gives Lasers a Stretch

Andrew Watson
Science 21 May 2001: 1468-1469.
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GENE SILENCING:
A Faster Way to Shut Down Genes

R. John Davenport
Science 25 May 2001: 1469-1471.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Microscale Weirdness Expands Its Turf

Charles Seife
Science 25 May 2001: 1471.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASTRONOMY:
'Invisible' Astronomers Give Their All to the Sloan

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 25 May 2001: 1472-1475.
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ASTRONOMY:
Funding the Sloan

Ann Finkbeiner
Science 25 May 2001: 1474.
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ACADEMIC COLLECTIONS:
Japan Shakes the Dust off Treasure Trove of Specimens

Dennis Normile
Science 25 May 2001: 1477.
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EGYPTIAN SCIENCE:
A Biotech Gambit in the Desert

Lone Frank
Science 25 May 2001: 1478.
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GEOLOGY:
Thermal Features Bubble in Yellowstone Lake

Kevin Krajick
Science 25 May 2001: 1479-1480.
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EVOLUTION:
Putting Limits on the Diversity of Life

Richard A. Kerr
Science 25 May 2001: 1481.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Hypoxia, Fertilizer, and the Gulf of Mexico

Clifford S. Snyder;, Robert W. Howarth;, Derek Winstanley;, and Dan Ferber
Science 25 May 2001: 1485-1486.
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 A Global Strategy to Defeat Invasive Species

Jeffrey K. Waage and Jamie K. Reaser
Science 25 May 2001: 1486.
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 The Identity of Plant Glutamate Receptors

Benoit Lacombe, Dirk Becker, Rainer Hedrich, Rob DeSalle, Michael Hollman, June M. Kwak, Julian I. Schroeder, Nicolas Le Novère, Hong Gil Nam, Edgar P. Spalding, Mark Tester, Frank J. Turano, Joanna Chiu, and Gloria Coruzzi
Science 25 May 2001: 1486-1487.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GENOMICS:
A Private-Sector Perspective

Michael A. Goldman
Science 25 May 2001: 1491-1492.
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ECOLOGY:
Beautiful Reef Builders

Stephen D. Cairns
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

EDUCATION:
Workforce Alternatives to Graduate Students?

Susan A. Gerbi, Howard H. Garrison, and John P. Perkins
Science 25 May 2001: 1489-1490.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Coral Reef Biodiversity--Habitat Size Matters

Nancy Knowlton
Science 25 May 2001: 1493-1495.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Silent Slip on the Cascadia Subduction Interface

Wayne Thatcher
Science 25 May 2001: 1495-1496.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Digging Up Fresh Clues About the Origin of Mammals

André Wyss
Science 25 May 2001: 1496-1497.
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PHYSICS:
Quasi-Particles Survive--for Now

Bernhard Keimer
Science 25 May 2001: 1498-1499.
Published online 26 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061205] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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POPULATION ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Not All Sheep Are Equal

Jean-Michel Gaillard, Marco Festa-Bianchet, and Nigel G. Yoccoz
Science 25 May 2001: 1499-1500.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Mass Outflow in Active Galactic Nuclei

D. Michael Crenshaw
Science 25 May 2001: 1500-1501.
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Review

Mechanism of Actin-Based Motility

Dominique Pantaloni, Christophe Le Clainche, and Marie-France Carlier
Science 25 May 2001: 1502-1506.
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Research Article

Fermi Surface Nesting and Nanoscale Fluctuating Charge/Orbital Ordering in Colossal Magnetoresistive Oxides

Y.-D. Chuang, A. D. Gromko, D. S. Dessau, T. Kimura, and Y. Tokura
Science 25 May 2001: 1509-1513.
Published online 26 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059255] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Evidence for a Solar System-Size Accretion Disk Around the Massive Protostar G192.16-3.82

D. S. Shepherd, M. J. Claussen, and S. E. Kurtz
Science 25 May 2001: 1513-1518.
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Spatially Resolved Spin-Injection Probability for Gallium Arsenide

V. P. LaBella, D. W. Bullock, Z. Ding, C. Emery, A. Venkatesan, W. F. Oliver, G. J. Salamo, P. M. Thibado, and M. Mortazavi
Science 25 May 2001: 1518-1521.
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MgB₂ Superconducting Thin Films with a Transition Temperature of 39 Kelvin

W. N. Kang, Hyeong-Jin Kim, Eun-Mi Choi, C. U. Jung, and Sung-Ik Lee
Science 25 May 2001: 1521-1523.
Published online 12 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060822] (in Science Express Reports)
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Hydrated Salt Minerals on Ganymede's Surface: Evidence of an Ocean Below

Thomas B. McCord, Gary B. Hansen, and Charles A. Hibbitts
Science 25 May 2001: 1523-1525.
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A Silent Slip Event on the Deeper Cascadia Subduction Interface

Herb Dragert, Kelin Wang, and Thomas S. James
Science 25 May 2001: 1525-1528.
Published online 19 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060152] (in Science Express Reports)
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Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep

T. Coulson, E. A. Catchpole, S. D. Albon, B. J. T. Morgan, J. M. Pemberton, T. H. Clutton-Brock, M. J. Crawley, and B. T. Grenfell
Science 25 May 2001: 1528-1531.
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Regional-Scale Assembly Rules and Biodiversity of Coral Reefs

David R. Bellwood and Terry P. Hughes
Science 25 May 2001: 1532-1535.
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A New Mammaliaform from the Early Jurassic and Evolution of Mammalian Characteristics

Zhe-Xi Luo, Alfred W. Crompton, and Ai-Lin Sun
Science 25 May 2001: 1535-1540.
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Chromatin Docking and Exchange Activity Enhancement of RCC1 by Histones H2A and H2B

Michael E. Nemergut, Craig A. Mizzen, Todd Stukenberg, C. David Allis, and Ian G. Macara
Science 25 May 2001: 1540-1543.
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Protective Role of ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels in Hypoxia-Induced Generalized Seizure

Katsuya Yamada, Juan Juan Ji, Hongjie Yuan, Takashi Miki, Shinichi Sato, Naoki Horimoto, Tetsuo Shimizu, Susumu Seino, and Nobuya Inagaki
Science 25 May 2001: 1543-1546.
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Requirement of DNase II for Definitive Erythropoiesis in the Mouse Fetal Liver

Kohki Kawane, Hidehiro Fukuyama, Gen Kondoh, Junji Takeda, Yoshiyuki Ohsawa, Yasuo Uchiyama, and Shigekazu Nagata
Science 25 May 2001: 1546-1549.
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Metabolic Regulation of Brain A by Neprilysin

Nobuhisa Iwata, Satoshi Tsubuki, Yoshie Takaki, Keiro Shirotani, Bao Lu, Norma P. Gerard, Craig Gerard, Emi Hama, Hahn-Jun Lee, and Takaomi C. Saido
Science 25 May 2001: 1550-1552.
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Impairment of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System by Protein Aggregation

Neil F. Bence, Roopal M. Sampat, and Ron R. Kopito
Science 25 May 2001: 1552-1555.
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