This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Can Science Save Africa?

Mohamed H. A. Hassan
Science 1 June 2001: 1609.
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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 1 June 2001: 1733-1735.

News of the Week

ECOTERRORISM:
Arson Strikes Research Labs and Tree Farm in Pacific Northwest

Robert F. Service
Science 1 June 2001: 1622-1623.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
New Dig at Old Trove Yields Giant Sauropod

Erik Stokstad
Science 1 June 2001: 1623-1625.
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AUSTRIAN UNIVERSITIES:
Scientists Spar Over Reform Plan

Min Ku
Science 1 June 2001: 1625-1626.
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SPACE RESEARCH:
ESA Embraces Astrobiology

Helen Gavaghan
Science 1 June 2001: 1626-1627.
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U.S. CONGRESS:
New Leaders Emerge After Senate Shake-Up

David Malakoff
Science 1 June 2001: 1627.
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ULTRAFAST LASERS:
Strobe Light Breaks the Attosecond Barrier

Robert F. Service
Science 1 June 2001: 1627-1628.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Bee Dance Reveals Bee's-Eye View

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 June 2001: 1628-1629.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Radical Gravity Theory Hits Large-Scale Snag

Charles Seife
Science 1 June 2001: 1629.
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ASTRONOMY:
Deep-Space 'Filament' Shows Cosmic Fabric

Govert Schilling
Science 1 June 2001: 1629-1631.
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ASTRONOMY:
The Most Powerful Action Flick Ever

Mark Sincell
Science 1 June 2001: 1631.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
Nuclear Trafficking: 'A Real and Dangerous Threat'

Richard Stone
Science 1 June 2001: 1632-1636.
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NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
New Effort Puts Radiation Sentinels at the Borders

Susan Ladika
Science 1 June 2001: 1633.
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NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
Tracing the Shadowy Origins of Nuclear Contraband

Susan Ladika
Science 1 June 2001: 1634.
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LANGUAGE, BRAIN, AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT MEETING:
What Makes the Mind Dance and Count

Michael Balter
Science 1 June 2001: 1636-1637.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Is the U.S. Doing Enough to Prevent Mad Cow Disease?

Martin Enserink
Science 1 June 2001: 1639-1641.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
America's Own Prion Disease?

Martin Enserink
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Retraction

A. Greshake, A. Bischoff, A. Putnis, and H. Palme
Science 1 June 2001: 1651.
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 Development of the Brazilian Amazon

José Paulo Silveira;, William F. Laurance, Philop M. Fearnside, Mark A. Cochrane, Sammya D'Angelo, Scott Bergen, and Patricia Delamônica
Science 1 June 2001: 1651-1654.
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 Predicting Human Longevity

Ronald Lee;, S. Jay Olshansky, Bruce A. Carnes, and Aline Désesquelles
Science 1 June 2001: 1654-1655.
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 Human Origins and Ancient Human DNA

Alan Cooper, Andrew Rambaut, Vincent Macaulay, Eske Willerslev, Anders J. Hansen, Chris Stringer;, Gregory J. Adcock, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Simon Easteal, Gavin A. Huttley, Lars S. Jermiin, W. James Peacock, and Alan Thorne
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
Piecing Together a Puzzling World

Esther M. Sternberg
Science 1 June 2001: 1661-1662.
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PHARMACOLOGY:
Pathways to Dependency

Jack H. Mendelson
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Morals and Primordials

Louis M. Guenin
Science 1 June 2001: 1659-1660.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
GGAs Tie Up the Loose Ends

Sharon A. Tooze
Science 1 June 2001: 1663-1665.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Cracking Listeria's Password

B. Brett Finlay
Science 1 June 2001: 1665-1667.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Agrin--A Bridge Between the Nervous and Immune Systems

Alain Trautmann and Eric Vivier
Science 1 June 2001: 1667-1668.
Published online 10 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061542] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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QUANTUM COMPUTING:
Computation from Geometry

Seth Lloyd
Science 1 June 2001: 1669.
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CLIMATE:
Enhanced: Open Windows to the Polar Oceans

Peter Lemke
Science 1 June 2001: 1670-1671.
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CHEMICAL PHYSICS:
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy Comes of Age

Anne Myers Kelley, Xavier Michalet, and Shimon Weiss
Science 1 June 2001: 1671-1672.
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Viewpoint

Neuroimaging Databases

The Governing Council of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
Science 1 June 2001: 1673-1676.
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Research Article

Physiological Regulation of the Immunological Synapse by Agrin

Adil A. Khan, Christian Bose, Lung S. Yam, Mark J. Soloski, and Fabio Rupp
Science 1 June 2001: 1681-1686.
Published online 10 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056594] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Evidence for Dust Grain Growth in Young Circumstellar Disks

Henry B. Throop, John Bally, Larry W. Esposito, and Mark J. McCaughrean
Science 1 June 2001: 1686-1689.
Published online 26 April 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059093] (in Science Express Reports)
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Observation of a Train of Attosecond Pulses from High Harmonic Generation

P. M. Paul, E. S. Toma, P. Breger, G. Mullot, F. Augé, Ph. Balcou, H. G. Muller, and P. Agostini
Science 1 June 2001: 1689-1692.
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Anomalous Weak Magnetism in Superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x

J. E. Sonier, J. H. Brewer, R. F. Kiefl, R. I. Miller, G. D. Morris, C. E. Stronach, J. S. Gardner, S. R. Dunsiger, D. A. Bonn, W. N. Hardy, R. Liang, and R. H. Heffner
Science 1 June 2001: 1692-1695.
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Geometric Manipulation of Trapped Ions for Quantum Computation

L.-M. Duan, J. I. Cirac, and P. Zoller
Science 1 June 2001: 1695-1697.
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Explaining the Weddell Polynya--a Large Ocean Eddy Shed at Maud Rise

D. M. Holland
Science 1 June 2001: 1697-1700.
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Photosynthesis-Induced Biofilm Calcification and Calcium Concentrations in Phanerozoic Oceans

Gernot Arp, Andreas Reimer, and Joachim Reitner
Science 1 June 2001: 1701-1704.
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A Giant Sauropod Dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous Mangrove Deposit in Egypt

Joshua B. Smith, Matthew C. Lamanna, Kenneth J. Lacovara, Peter Dodson, Jennifer R. Smith, Jason C. Poole, Robert Giegengack, and Yousry Attia
Science 1 June 2001: 1704-1706.
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Climate-Driven Range Expansion and Morphological Evolution in a Marine Gastropod

Michael E. Hellberg, Deborah P. Balch, and Kaustuv Roy
Science 1 June 2001: 1707-1710.
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Parent-Offspring Coadaptation and the Dual Genetic Control of Maternal Care

Aneil F. Agrawal, Edmund D. Brodie, III, and Jeremy Brown
Science 1 June 2001: 1710-1712.
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Sorting of Mannose 6-Phosphate Receptors Mediated by the GGAs

Rosa Puertollano, Rubén C. Aguilar, Inna Gorshkova, Robert J. Crouch, and Juan S. Bonifacino
Science 1 June 2001: 1712-1716.
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Binding of GGA2 to the Lysosomal Enzyme Sorting Motif of the Mannose 6-Phosphate Receptor

Yunxiang Zhu, Balraj Doray, Anssi Poussu, Veli-Pekka Lehto, and Stuart Kornfeld
Science 1 June 2001: 1716-1718.
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G Protein Signaling from Activated Rat Frizzled-1 to the -Catenin-Lef-Tcf Pathway

Tong Liu, Anthony J. DeCostanzo, Xunxian Liu, Hsien-yu Wang, Sarah Hallagan, Randall T. Moon, and Craig C. Malbon
Science 1 June 2001: 1718-1722.
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A Transgenic Model for Listeriosis: Role of Internalin in Crossing the Intestinal Barrier

Marc Lecuit, Sandrine Vandormael-Pournin, Jean Lefort, Michel Huerre, Pierre Gounon, Catherine Dupuy, Charles Babinet, and Pascale Cossart
Science 1 June 2001: 1722-1725.
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Structure of Complement Receptor 2 in Complex with Its C3d Ligand

Gerda Szakonyi, Joel M. Guthridge, Dawei Li, Kendra Young, V. Michael Holers, and Xiaojiang S. Chen
Science 1 June 2001: 1725-1728.
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Insulin Resistance and a Diabetes Mellitus-Like Syndrome in Mice Lacking the Protein Kinase Akt2 (PKB)

Han Cho, James Mu, Jason K. Kim, Joanne L. Thorvaldsen, Qingwei Chu, E. Bryan Crenshaw, III, Klaus H. Kaestner, Marisa S. Bartolomei, Gerald I. Shulman, and Morris J. Birnbaum
Science 1 June 2001: 1728-1731.
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