This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 6 July 2001: 9.
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Editorial:
Iraq's Cultural Heritage: Collateral Damage

Robert McC. Adams
Science 6 July 2001: 13.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 6 July 2001: 15.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 6 July 2001: 129-131.

News of the Week

VIROLOGY:
Old Guard Urges Virologists to Go Back to Basics

Martin Enserink
Science 6 July 2001: 24-25.
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WETLANDS RESTORATION:
Recreated Wetlands No Match for Original

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 6 July 2001: 25.
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KENNEWICK MAN:
Missing Thighbones Suddenly Reappear

Constance Holden
Science 6 July 2001: 25-27.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Neurons Fix Memories in the Mind's Eye

Laura Helmuth
Science 6 July 2001: 27-28.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Elusive Protein Auditions for Several New Roles

Jean Marx
Science 6 July 2001: 28-29.
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MARINE BIOLOGY:
Interest Blooms in Growing Jellyfish Boom

David Malakoff
Science 6 July 2001: 29.
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MARINE MAMMALS:
By a Whisker, Harbor Seals Catch Their Prey

Carl Zimmer
Science 6 July 2001: 29-31.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Experts Urge Speedup to Mine 'Archives'

Robert Koenig
Science 6 July 2001: 31.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

INVISIBLE CRISIS:
Destruction in Mesopotamia

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 32-35.
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TIMELINE:
10,000 Years of Mesopotamian History

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 33.
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FOREIGNERS RETURN:
Iraq Opening Sets Off Scramble for Sites

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 36-38.
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FOREIGNERS RETURN:
Sale of Nineveh Fragments Exposes Looting Network

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 37.
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DIGGING IN:
New Digs Draw Applause and Concern

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 38-41.
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DIGGING IN:
Rifle-Toting Researcher Fights to Protect Ancient Sites

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 39.
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QUEENS' GOLD:
Banished Assyrian Gold to Reemerge From Vault

Andrew Lawler
Science 6 July 2001: 42-43.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 6 July 2001: 47.
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 Stem Cell Research Needs United Support

Constance A. Morella
Science 6 July 2001: 47.
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 A Global Paleoclimate Observing System

Keith Alverson, Ray Bradley, Keith Briffa, Julia Cole, Malcolm Hughes, Isabelle Larocque, Tom Pedersen, Lonnie Thompson, and Sandy Tudhope
Science 6 July 2001: 47-48.
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 Climate Variability and Global Warming

Kevin E. Trenberth
Science 6 July 2001: 48-49.
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 Earth System Science Sentiments

Marvin P. Carlson; and Christa Farmer
Science 6 July 2001: 49.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

Science 6 July 2001: 49.
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Books et al.

SOCIAL SCIENCES:
Empowering Aristotle

Clifford Geertz
Science 6 July 2001: 53.
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Is God All in the Mind?

Michael Shermer
Science 6 July 2001: 54.
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 Books Received

Science 6 July 2001: 54.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Artistic Creativity and the Brain

Semir Zeki
Science 6 July 2001: 51-52.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: News from the Edge of Interstellar Space

Edward C. Stone
Science 6 July 2001: 55-56.
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MARINE BIOLOGY:
Expansion of the Marine Archaea

David C. Smith
Science 6 July 2001: 56-57.
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DRUG DELIVERY:
Drugs on Target

Robert Langer
Science 6 July 2001: 58-59.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Ice Ages, the California Current, and Devils Hole

David W. Lea
Science 6 July 2001: 59-60.
Published online 7 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061078] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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DEVELOPMENT:
The Message Is in the Translation

Joel D. Richter and William E. Theurkauf
Science 6 July 2001: 60-62.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Bringing Channels Closer to the Action!

Stéphane A. Laporte, Robert H. Oakley, and Marc G. Caron
Science 6 July 2001: 62-63.
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Review

The Early Evolution of the Inner Solar System: A Meteoritic Perspective

C. M. O'D. Alexander, A. P. Boss, and R. W. Carlson
Science 6 July 2001: 64-68.
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Research Article

Collapse of the California Current During Glacial Maxima Linked to Climate Change on Land

T. D. Herbert, J. D. Schuffert, D. Andreasen, L. Heusser, M. Lyle, A. Mix, A. C. Ravelo, L. D. Stott, and J. C. Herguera
Science 6 July 2001: 71-76.
Published online 7 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059209] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Carbon Nanotube Single-Electron Transistors at Room Temperature

Henk W. Ch. Postma, Tijs Teepen, Zhen Yao, Milena Grifoni, and Cees Dekker
Science 6 July 2001: 76-79.
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Fully Conjugated Porphyrin Tapes with Electronic Absorption Bands That Reach into Infrared

Akihiko Tsuda and Atsuhiro Osuka
Science 6 July 2001: 79-82.
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Approach to High-Resolution ex Situ NMR Spectroscopy

Carlos A. Meriles, Dimitris Sakellariou, Henrike Heise, Adam J. Moulé, and Alexander Pines
Science 6 July 2001: 82-85.
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Regional Climate Impacts of the Northern Hemisphere Annular Mode

David W. J. Thompson and John M. Wallace
Science 6 July 2001: 85-89.
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Seasonal Modulation of Interseismic Strain Buildup in Northeastern Japan Driven by Snow Loads

Kosuke Heki
Science 6 July 2001: 89-92.
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Massive Expansion of Marine Archaea During a Mid-Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event

Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Peter Blokker, Jochen Erbacher, Hanno Kinkel, Richard D. Pancost, Stefan Schouten, and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté
Science 6 July 2001: 92-95.
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Epigenetic Instability in ES Cells and Cloned Mice

David Humpherys, Kevin Eggan, Hidenori Akutsu, Konrad Hochedlinger, William M. Rideout, III, Detlev Biniszkiewicz, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, and Rudolf Jaenisch
Science 6 July 2001: 95-97.
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A ₂ Adrenergic Receptor Signaling Complex Assembled with the Ca²⁺ Channel Ca_v1.2

Monika A. Davare, Vladimir Avdonin, Duane D. Hall, Erik M. Peden, Alain Burette, Richard J. Weinberg, Mary C. Horne, Toshinori Hoshi, and Johannes W. Hell
Science 6 July 2001: 98-101.
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Hydrodynamic Trail-Following in Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina)

Guido Dehnhardt, Björn Mauck, Wolf Hanke, and Horst Bleckmann
Science 6 July 2001: 102-104.
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Human Chromosome 19 and Related Regions in Mouse: Conservative and Lineage-Specific Evolution

Paramvir Dehal, Paul Predki, Anne S. Olsen, Art Kobayashi, Peg Folta, Susan Lucas, Miriam Land, Astrid Terry, Carol L. Ecale Zhou, Sam Rash, Qing Zhang, Laurie Gordon, Joomyeong Kim, Christopher Elkin, Martin J. Pollard, Paul Richardson, Dan Rokhsar, Ed Uberbacher, Trevor Hawkins, Elbert Branscomb, and Lisa Stubbs
Science 6 July 2001: 104-111.
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Ventroptin: A BMP-4 Antagonist Expressed in a Double-Gradient Pattern in the Retina

Hiraki Sakuta, Ryoko Suzuki, Hiroo Takahashi, Akira Kato, Takafumi Shintani, Shun-ichiro Iemura, Takamasa S. Yamamoto, Naoto Ueno, and Masaharu Noda
Science 6 July 2001: 111-115.
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A Transcriptively Active Complex of APP with Fe65 and Histone Acetyltransferase Tip60

Xinwei Cao and Thomas C. Südhof
Science 6 July 2001: 115-120.
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A Neural Correlate of Working Memory in the Monkey Primary Visual Cortex

Hans Supèr, Henk Spekreijse, and Victor A. F. Lamme
Science 6 July 2001: 120-124.
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Stimulation of RNA Polymerase II Elongation by Hepatitis Delta Antigen

Yuki Yamaguchi, Julija Filipovska, Keiichi Yano, Akiko Furuya, Naoto Inukai, Takashi Narita, Tadashi Wada, Seiji Sugimoto, Maria M. Konarska, and Hiroshi Handa
Science 6 July 2001: 124-127.
Published online 31 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1057925] (in Science Express Reports)
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