This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
New World Pathogen Strategy Disclosed

Thomas Eisner and Paul R. Ehrlich
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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 29 June 2001: 2507-2508.

 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

WHITE HOUSE:
President's New Adviser Ready to Put Science in Its Place

Andrew Lawler
Science 29 June 2001: 2408-2409.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
Bush Grapples With Stem Cells, Cloning

Gretchen Vogel
Science 29 June 2001: 2409-2411.
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SCIENCE PUBLISHING:
Lab Chief, Postdoc Clash Over Nanotech Paper

Eliot Marshall
Science 29 June 2001: 2411-2412.
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ULTRAFAST LASERS:
Lighting the Way to a Quantum Computer

Robert F. Service
Science 29 June 2001: 2412-2413.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
NO Helps Make Fireflies Flash

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 29 June 2001: 2413-2414.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
'Tired-Light' Hypothesis Gets Re-Tired

Charles Seife
Science 29 June 2001: 2414.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Russian Turmoil Rattles CERN

Vladimir Pokrovsky and Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 29 June 2001: 2414-2415.
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CELL CYCLE RESEARCH:
DNA: Once Copied, Thrice Blocked

R. John Davenport
Science 29 June 2001: 2415-2417.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Unwrapping a Modern Mummy Mystery

Robert Koenig
Science 29 June 2001: 2417.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ARCHAEOLOGY:
Writing Gets a Rewrite

Andrew Lawler
Science 29 June 2001: 2418-2420.
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PROFILE:
Dollars and Cents vs. the AIDS Epidemic

Gretchen Vogel
Science 29 June 2001: 2420-2422.
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ECOLOGY:
Dammed If You Do, Damned If You Don't?

John Pickrell
Science 29 June 2001: 2422-2423.
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EUROPEAN RESEARCH AREA:
E.U. Research Chief's Strategy: Unite and Conquer

Robert Koenig
Science 29 June 2001: 2425.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Dust Disks and Black Holes Swell the Cosmic Census

Mark Sincell
Science 29 June 2001: 2426.
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ECOLOGY:
A New Wind Sweeps the Plains

Paul Thacker
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 South Africa in Crisis on HIV/AIDS Treatment

Timothy Trengove Jones
Science 29 June 2001: 2431-2432.
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 DOE's Support of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Burton Richter
Science 29 June 2001: 2432.
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 The Biology of Music

Luis Benítez-Bribiesca;, Patricia M. Gray, Roger Payne, Bernie Krause, and Mark J. Tramo
Science 29 June 2001: 2432-2433.
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 Structures of the Mind and Universal Music

Jacob Goldenberg, David Mazursky, and Sorin Solomon
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Books et al.

EVOLUTION:
Mutated into Oblivion

Lynda F. Delph
Science 29 June 2001: 2437-2438.
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C0MMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:
Nota Bene: The Webs We Weave

David Voss
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

AIDS:
Resource Needs for HIV/AIDS

B. Schwartländer, J. Stover, N. Walker, L. Bollinger, J. P. Gutierrez, W. McGreevey, M. Opuni, S. Forsythe, L. Kumaranayake, C. Watts, and S. Bertozzi
Science 29 June 2001: 2434-2436.
Published online 21 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062876] (in Science Express Policy Forum)
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Perspectives

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Signaling Specificity-- a Complex Affair

Claire R. Weston and Roger J. Davis
Science 29 June 2001: 2439-2440.
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COSMOLOGY:
Magnetic Mysteries

Axel Brandenburg
Science 29 June 2001: 2440-2441.
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EVOLUTION:
Haploids--Hapless or Happening?

Sarah P. Otto and Philippe Jarne
Science 29 June 2001: 2441-2443.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Extending the Calibrated Radiocarbon Record

Edouard Bard
Science 29 June 2001: 2443-2444.
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ECOLOGY:
Marine Bugs and Carbon Flow

Tom Fenchel
Science 29 June 2001: 2444-2445.
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PLATE TECTONICS:
A Graveyard for Buoyant Slabs?

Harry W. Green II
Science 29 June 2001: 2445-2446.
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Review

Graded Materials for Resistance to Contact Deformation and Damage

S. Suresh
Science 29 June 2001: 2447-2451.
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Research Article

Extremely Large Variations of Atmospheric ¹⁴C Concentration During the Last Glacial Period

J. Warren Beck, David A. Richards, R. Lawrence Edwards, Bernard W. Silverman, Peter L. Smart, Douglas J. Donahue, Sofia Hererra-Osterheld, George S. Burr, Leal Calsoyas, A. J. Timothy Jull, and Dana Biddulph
Science 29 June 2001: 2453-2458.
Published online 10 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1056649] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Ultrafast Manipulation of Electron Spin Coherence

J. A. Gupta, R. Knobel, N. Samarth, and D. D. Awschalom
Science 29 June 2001: 2458-2461.
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Superconductivity in 4 Angstrom Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Z. K. Tang, Lingyun Zhang, N. Wang, X. X. Zhang, G. H. Wen, G. D. Li, J. N. Wang, C. T. Chan, and Ping Sheng
Science 29 June 2001: 2462-2465.
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Construction Principles of "Hyparenes": Families of Molecules with Planar Pentacoordinate Carbons

Zhi-Xiang Wang and Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Science 29 June 2001: 2465-2469.
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Predicting the Mesophases of Copolymer-Nanoparticle Composites

Russell B. Thompson, Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Mark W. Matsen, and Anna C. Balazs
Science 29 June 2001: 2469-2472.
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Diapiric Flow at Subduction Zones: A Recipe for Rapid Transport

Paul S. Hall and Chris Kincaid
Science 29 June 2001: 2472-2475.
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Evidence for a Large-Scale Remnant of Subducted Lithosphere Beneath Fiji

Wang-Ping Chen and Michael R. Brudzinski
Science 29 June 2001: 2475-2479.
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A Mite Species That Consists Entirely of Haploid Females

Andrew R. Weeks, Frantisek Marec, and Johannes A. J. Breeuwer
Science 29 June 2001: 2479-2482.
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Gene Families from the Arabidopsis thaliana Pollen Coat Proteome

Jacob A. Mayfield, Aretha Fiebig, Sarah E. Johnstone, and Daphne Preuss
Science 29 June 2001: 2482-2485.
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Nitric Oxide and the Control of Firefly Flashing

Barry A. Trimmer, June R. Aprille, David M. Dudzinski, Christopher J. Lagace, Sara M. Lewis, Thomas Michel, Sanjive Qazi, and Ricardo M. Zayas
Science 29 June 2001: 2486-2488.
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Femtomolar Sensitivity of Metalloregulatory Proteins Controlling Zinc Homeostasis

Caryn E. Outten and Thomas V. O'Halloran
Science 29 June 2001: 2488-2492.
Published online 7 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060331] (in Science Express Reports)
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Contribution of Aerobic Photoheterotrophic Bacteria to the Carbon Cycle in the Ocean

Zbigniew S. Kolber, F. Gerald Plumley, Andrew S. Lang, J. Thomas Beatty, Robert E. Blankenship, Cindy L. VanDover, Costantino Vetriani, Michal Koblizek, Christopher Rathgeber, and Paul G. Falkowski
Science 29 June 2001: 2492-2495.
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Nitrogen Fixation by Symbiotic and Free-Living Spirochetes

T. G. Lilburn, K. S. Kim, N. E. Ostrom, K. R. Byzek, J. R. Leadbetter, and J. A. Breznak
Science 29 June 2001: 2495-2498.
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Impulsive Choice Induced in Rats by Lesions of the Nucleus Accumbens Core

Rudolf N. Cardinal, David R. Pennicott, C. Lakmali Sugathapala, Trevor W. Robbins, and Barry J. Everitt
Science 29 June 2001: 2499-2501.
Published online 24 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060818] (in Science Express Reports)
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Conditional Restoration of Hippocampal Synaptic Potentiation in GluR-A-Deficient Mice

Volker Mack, Nail Burnashev, Katharina M. M. Kaiser, Andrei Rozov, Vidar Jensen, Øvind Hvalby, Peter H. Seeburg, Bert Sakmann, and Rolf Sprengel
Science 29 June 2001: 2501-2504.
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Technical Comments

 Mid-Holocene Climate in the South-Central Andes: Humid or Dry?

Martin Grosjean, Jay Quade, Jason Rech, Julio Betancourt, and Claudio Latorre
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