This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Smithsonian Affair

Donald Kennedy
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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 20 July 2001: 523-524.

News of the Week

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Pentagon Proposes to Cut AIDS Research From Defense Budget

Jon Cohen
Science 20 July 2001: 404-405.
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ASTRONOMY:
Nearby Galaxy Breaks the Black Hole Chain

Charles Seife
Science 20 July 2001: 405.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
Procedures Faulted in Fatal Asthma Trial

Eliot Marshall
Science 20 July 2001: 405-407.
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ASTRONOMY:
Wet Stellar System Like Ours Found

Richard A. Kerr
Science 20 July 2001: 407-408.
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SPACE STATION SCIENCE:
Congress Orders Halt to Planned NASA Cuts

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 July 2001: 408.
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION:
New Panel Will Redirect Science

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 July 2001: 408-409.
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GENOMICS:
Animals Line Up to Be Sequenced

Josh Gewolb
Science 20 July 2001: 409-410.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
S. pneumoniae Genome Falls to Sequencers

Dan Ferber
Science 20 July 2001: 410.
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JAPAN:
Lab Chiefs Decry Push for Strategic Research

Dennis Normile
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Appeals Court Clears Way for Academic Suits

Eliot Marshall
Science 20 July 2001: 411-413.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
NIH Review Outlines 'Enormous Promise'

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 July 2001: 413.
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YUGOSLAVIA:
Science Goes Begging in Recovery Package

Richard Stone
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

TREATY COMPLIANCE:
Down to the Wire on Bioweapons Talks

Richard Stone
Science 20 July 2001: 414-416.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Malaria's Beginnings: On the Heels of Hoes?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 July 2001: 416-417.
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BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
'Inconceivable' Bugs Eat Methane on the Ocean Floor

Carl Zimmer
Science 20 July 2001: 418-419.
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PROFILE:
A Man and His Archive Seek Greener Pastures

Mark Sincell
Science 20 July 2001: 419-421.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Setting Priorities for Science Funding

Mark O. Hatfield
Science 20 July 2001: 425.
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 Socioeconomic Biological Weapons

Johannes Rath and Jochen L Bürgel
Science 20 July 2001: 425-426.
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 First Words

William H. Perkins
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 Effects of Lead Exposure

Claire B. Ernhart;, Walter J. Rogan, James H. Ware, Kim N. Dietrich, Jerilynn Radcliffe, and George G. Rhoads
Science 20 July 2001: 426-428.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
Extraordinary Talents of Autistic Minds

Marian Sigman
Science 20 July 2001: 435-436.
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GENOMICS:
Nota Bene: Are You Ready?

Orla Smith
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Uncertainty and Climate Change Assessments

John Reilly, Peter H. Stone, Chris E. Forest, Mort D. Webster, Henry D. Jacoby, and Ronald G. Prinn
Science 20 July 2001: 430-433.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Uncertainty in the IPCC's Third Assessment Report

Myles Allen, Sarah Raper, and John Mitchell
Science 20 July 2001: 430-433.
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Perspectives

CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
Chronobiology--Reducing Time

Ueli Schibler, Juergen A. Ripperger, and Steven A. Brown
Science 20 July 2001: 437-438.
Published online 5 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063296] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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EVOLUTION:
The Cambrian Explosion Exploded?

Richard Fortey
Science 20 July 2001: 438-439.
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WEATHER:
Enhanced: Hurricane Threats

Lennart Bengtsson
Science 20 July 2001: 440-441.
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MALARIA:
Protecting Against Bad Air

Lucio Luzzatto and Rosario Notaro
Science 20 July 2001: 442-443.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Meaning of a Mini

Patrik Verstreken and Hugo J. Bellen
Science 20 July 2001: 443-444.
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ELECTRON TRANSFER:
Sometimes You Can Go Home Again

Christopher Bardeen
Science 20 July 2001: 444-445.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Huntingtin--Profit and Loss

Yvon Trottier and Jean Louis Mandel
Science 20 July 2001: 445-446.
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POLYMER DYNAMICS:
Chance Encounters

Thomas P. Russell
Science 20 July 2001: 446-447.
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Tech.Sight

Industrializing Structural Biology

Raymond C. Stevens and Ian A. Wilson
Science 20 July 2001: 519-520.
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Research Articles

Interpretation of High Projections for Global-Mean Warming

T. M. L. Wigley and S. C. B. Raper
Science 20 July 2001: 451-454.
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Haplotype Diversity and Linkage Disequilibrium at Human G6PD: Recent Origin of Alleles That Confer Malarial Resistance

Sarah A. Tishkoff, Robert Varkonyi, Nelie Cahinhinan, Salem Abbes, George Argyropoulos, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Anthi Drousiotou, Bruce Dangerfield, Gerard Lefranc, Jacques Loiselet, Anna Piro, Mark Stoneking, Antonio Tagarelli, Giuseppe Tagarelli, Elias H. Touma, Scott M. Williams, and Andrew G. Clark
Science 20 July 2001: 455-462.
Published online 21 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061573] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Optical Control of Electrons During Electron Transfer

Ignacio B. Martini, Erik R. Barthel, and Benjamin J. Schwartz
Science 20 July 2001: 462-465.
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Impact of Polymer Tether Length on Multiple Ligand-Receptor Bond Formation

Claus Jeppesen, Joyce Y. Wong, Tonya L. Kuhl, Jacob N. Israelachvili, Nasreen Mullah, Samuel Zalipsky, and Carlos M. Marques
Science 20 July 2001: 465-468.
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Physical Structure and Inversion Charge at a Semiconductor Interface with a Crystalline Oxide

R. A. McKee, F. J. Walker, and M. F. Chisholm
Science 20 July 2001: 468-471.
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Remotely Sensed Biological Production in the Equatorial Pacific

Daniela Turk, Michael J. McPhaden, Antonio J. Busalacchi, and Marlon R. Lewis
Science 20 July 2001: 471-474.
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The Recent Increase in Atlantic Hurricane Activity: Causes and Implications

Stanley B. Goldenberg, Christopher W. Landsea, Alberto M. Mestas-Nuñez, and William M. Gray
Science 20 July 2001: 474-479.
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A Phosphatocopid Crustacean with Appendages from the Lower Cambrian

David J. Siveter, Mark Williams, and Dieter Waloszek
Science 20 July 2001: 479-481.
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Recent Origin of Plasmodium falciparum from a Single Progenitor

Sarah K. Volkman, Alyssa E. Barry, Emily J. Lyons, Kaare M. Nielsen, Susan M. Thomas, Mehee Choi, Seema S. Thakore, Karen P. Day, Dyann F. Wirth, and Daniel L. Hartl
Science 20 July 2001: 482-484.
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Methane-Consuming Archaea Revealed by Directly Coupled Isotopic and Phylogenetic Analysis

Victoria J. Orphan, Christopher H. House, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Kevin D. McKeegan, and Edward F. DeLong
Science 20 July 2001: 484-487.
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Persistence of Native-Like Topology in a Denatured Protein in 8 M Urea

David Shortle and Michael S. Ackerman
Science 20 July 2001: 487-489.
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Haplotype Variation and Linkage Disequilibrium in 313 Human Genes

J. Claiborne Stephens, Julie A. Schneider, Debra A. Tanguay, Julie Choi, Tara Acharya, Scott E. Stanley, Ruhong Jiang, Chad J. Messer, Anne Chew, Jin-Hua Han, Jicheng Duan, Janet L. Carr, Min Seob Lee, Beena Koshy, A. Madan Kumar, Ge Zhang, William R. Newell, Andreas Windemuth, Chuanbo Xu, Theodore S. Kalbfleisch, Sandra L. Shaner, Kevin Arnold, Vincent Schulz, Connie M. Drysdale, Krishnan Nandabalan, Richard S. Judson, Gualberto Ruaño, and Gerald F. Vovis
Science 20 July 2001: 489-493.
Published online 12 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059431] (in Science Express Reports)
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Loss of Huntingtin-Mediated BDNF Gene Transcription in Huntington's Disease

Chiara Zuccato, Andrea Ciammola, Dorotea Rigamonti, Blair R. Leavitt, Donato Goffredo, Luciano Conti, Marcy E. MacDonald, Robert M. Friedlander, Vincenzo Silani, Michael R. Hayden, Tõnis Timmusk, Simonetta Sipione, and Elena Cattaneo
Science 20 July 2001: 493-498.
Published online 14 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059581] (in Science Express Reports)
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Complete Genome Sequence of a Virulent Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Hervé Tettelin, Karen E. Nelson, Ian T. Paulsen, Jonathan A. Eisen, Timothy D. Read, Scott Peterson, John Heidelberg, Robert T. DeBoy, Daniel H. Haft, Robert J. Dodson, A. Scott Durkin, Michelle Gwinn, James F. Kolonay, William C. Nelson, Jeremy D. Peterson, Lowell A. Umayam, Owen White, Steven L. Salzberg, Matthew R. Lewis, Diana Radune, Erik Holtzapple, Hoda Khouri, Alex M. Wolf, Terry R. Utterback, Cheryl L. Hansen, Lisa A. McDonald, Tamara V. Feldblyum, Samuel Angiuoli, Tanja Dickinson, Erin K. Hickey, Ingeborg E. Holt, Brendan J. Loftus, Fan Yang, Hamilton O. Smith, J. Craig Venter, Brian A. Dougherty, Donald A. Morrison, Susan K. Hollingshead, and Claire M. Fraser
Science 20 July 2001: 498-506.
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NPAS2: An Analog of Clock Operative in the Mammalian Forebrain

Martin Reick, Joseph A. Garcia, Carol Dudley, and Steven L. McKnight
Science 20 July 2001: 506-509.
Published online 5 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060699] (in Science Express Reports)
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Regulation of Clock and NPAS2 DNA Binding by the Redox State of NAD Cofactors

Jared Rutter, Martin Reick, Leeju C. Wu, and Steven L. McKnight
Science 20 July 2001: 510-514.
Published online 5 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060698] (in Science Express Reports)
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Absence of Junctional Glutamate Receptor Clusters in Drosophila Mutants Lacking Spontaneous Transmitter Release

Minoru Saitoe, Thomas L. Schwarz, Joy A. Umbach, Cameron B. Gundersen, and Yoshiaki Kidokoro
Science 20 July 2001: 514-517.
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