This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Good News, Bad News

Donald Kennedy
Science 3 August 2001: 761.
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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 3 August 2001: 885-886.

News of the Week

VOLCANOLOGY:
Etna Eruption Puts Volcano Monitoring to the Test

Richard Stone
Science 3 August 2001: 774-775.
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STEM CELLS:
Japan Readies Rules That Allow Research

Dennis Normile
Science 3 August 2001: 775.
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EARTH SCIENCES:
Satellite Shutdown Stirs Controversy

Andrew Lawler
Science 3 August 2001: 775-777.
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HEAVY-ION PHYSICS:
Berkeley Crew Unbags Element 118

Charles Seife
Science 3 August 2001: 777-778.
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ENTOMOLOGY:
First Light on Genetic Roots of Bt Resistance

Erik Stokstad
Science 3 August 2001: 778.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Dinosaur Nostrils Get a Hole New Look

Erik Stokstad
Science 3 August 2001: 779.
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GENETIC ENGINEERING:
Imperial College Fined Over Hybrid Virus Risk

John Pickrell
Science 3 August 2001: 779-781.
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NATIONAL SECURITY:
MIT Military Critic Rejects Secrecy Claims

Eliot Marshall
Science 3 August 2001: 781.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NANOCOMPUTING:
Assembling Nanocircuits From the Bottom Up

Robert F. Service
Science 3 August 2001: 782-785.
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NANOCOMPUTING:
Yet Another Role for DNA?

Dennis Normile and Robert F. Service
Science 3 August 2001: 783.
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NANOCOMPUTING:
Optical Lithography Goes to Extremes--And Beyond

Robert F. Service
Science 3 August 2001: 785-786.
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NANOCOMPUTING:
World's Smallest Transistor

Robert F. Service
Science 3 August 2001: 786.
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NANOCOMPUTING:
The End--Not Here Yet, But Coming Soon

Dennis Normile
Science 3 August 2001: 787.
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Developmental Progress Fills the Air in Kyoto

Dennis Normile
Science 3 August 2001: 788-789.
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PETER BREWER:
Fathoming the Chemistry of the Deep Blue Sea

Robert Irion
Science 3 August 2001: 790-793.
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MATHEMATICS:
Randomly Distributed Slices of p

Charles Seife
Science 3 August 2001: 793.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 3 August 2001: 801.
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 Global Health Fund and Global Realities

Michael T. Speidel
Science 3 August 2001: 801.
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 Science Lobbying Tactics

Marc Bergmans
Science 3 August 2001: 801.
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 Dietary Fat: At the Heart of the Matter

Scott M. Grundy;, D. M. Hegsted;, Arne Astrup, James O. Hill, Wim H. M. Saris;, and Gary Taubes
Science 3 August 2001: 801-804.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HUMAN BIOLOGY:
Evolution and Our Reproductive Physiology

Hillard S. Kaplan
Science 3 August 2001: 809-810.
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GENETICS:
Writing About the Unseen

Andrew Berry
Science 3 August 2001: 810.
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 Books Received

Science 3 August 2001: 810.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Defining Disease in the Genomics Era

Larissa K. F. Temple, Robin S. McLeod, Steven Gallinger, and James G. Wright
Science 3 August 2001: 807-808.
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
Dicing Up RNAs

Victor Ambros
Science 3 August 2001: 811-813.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Deep Diamond Mysteries

Catherine McCammon
Science 3 August 2001: 813-814.
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ASTRONOMY:
The Complex Story of H₂

William Klemperer
Science 3 August 2001: 815-816.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Reconstructing Myotonic Dystrophy

Stephen J. Tapscott and Charles A. Thornton
Science 3 August 2001: 816-817.
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PROTEIN SYNTHESIS:
The Perks of Balancing Glucose

Nahum Sonenberg and Christopher B. Newgard
Science 3 August 2001: 818-819.
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EARTH HISTORY:
The Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

James F. Kasting
Science 3 August 2001: 819-820.
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Research Articles

An Optical Clock Based on a Single Trapped ¹⁹⁹Hg⁺ Ion

S. A. Diddams, Th. Udem, J. C. Bergquist, E. A. Curtis, R. E. Drullinger, L. Hollberg, W. M. Itano, W. D. Lee, C. W. Oates, K. R. Vogel, and D. J. Wineland
Science 3 August 2001: 825-828.
Published online 12 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061171] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Induction of Apoptosis by a Secreted Lipocalin That is Transcriptionally Regulated by IL-3 Deprivation

Laxminarayana R. Devireddy, Jose G. Teodoro, Fabien A. Richard, and Michael R. Green
Science 3 August 2001: 829-834.
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A Cellular Function for the RNA-Interference Enzyme Dicer in the Maturation of the let-7 Small Temporal RNA

György Hutvágner, Juanita McLachlan, Amy E. Pasquinelli, Éva Bálint, Thomas Tuschl, and Phillip D. Zamore
Science 3 August 2001: 834-838.
Published online 12 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062961] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Biogenic Methane, Hydrogen Escape, and the Irreversible Oxidation of Early Earth

David C. Catling, Kevin J. Zahnle, and Christopher McKay
Science 3 August 2001: 839-843.
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Josephson Junction Arrays with Bose-Einstein Condensates

F. S. Cataliotti, S. Burger, C. Fort, P. Maddaloni, F. Minardi, A. Trombettoni, A. Smerzi, and M. Inguscio
Science 3 August 2001: 843-846.
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Soluble and Colloidal Iron in the Oligotrophic North Atlantic and North Pacific

Jingfeng Wu, Edward Boyle, William Sunda, and Liang-Saw Wen
Science 3 August 2001: 847-849.
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Nostril Position in Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates and Its Significance for Nasal Function

Lawrence M. Witmer
Science 3 August 2001: 850-853.
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Methylation of Histone H4 at Arginine 3 Facilitating Transcriptional Activation by Nuclear Hormone Receptor

Hengbin Wang, Zhi-Qing Huang, Li Xia, Qin Feng, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Brian D. Strahl, Scott D. Briggs, C. David Allis, Jiemin Wong, Paul Tempst, and Yi Zhang
Science 3 August 2001: 853-857.
Published online 31 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060781] (in Science Express Reports)
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Identification of a Gene Associated with Bt Resistance in Heliothis virescens

Linda J. Gahan, Fred Gould, and David G. Heckel
Science 3 August 2001: 857-860.
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Bt Toxin Resistance from Loss of a Putative Carbohydrate-Modifying Enzyme

Joel S. Griffitts, Johanna L. Whitacre, Daniel E. Stevens, and Raffi V. Aroian
Science 3 August 2001: 860-864.
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Myotonic Dystrophy Type 2 Caused by a CCTG Expansion in Intron 1 of ZNF9

Christina L. Liquori, Kenneth Ricker, Melinda L. Moseley, Jennifer F. Jacobsen, Wolfram Kress, Susan L. Naylor, John W. Day, and Laura P. W. Ranum
Science 3 August 2001: 864-867.
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Stereotyped Position of Local Synaptic Targets in Neocortex

James Kozloski, Farid Hamzei-Sichani, and Rafael Yuste
Science 3 August 2001: 868-872.
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Sorting of Striatal and Cortical Interneurons Regulated by Semaphorin-Neuropilin Interactions

Oscar Marín, Avraham Yaron, Anil Bagri, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and John L. R. Rubenstein
Science 3 August 2001: 872-875.
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Clinical Resistance to STI-571 Cancer Therapy Caused by BCR-ABL Gene Mutation or Amplification

Mercedes E. Gorre, Mansoor Mohammed, Katharine Ellwood, Nicholas Hsu, Ron Paquette, P. Nagesh Rao, and Charles L. Sawyers
Science 3 August 2001: 876-880.
Published online 21 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062538] (in Science Express Reports)
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Reciprocal Regulation Between TOC1 and LHY/CCA1 Within the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock

David Alabadí, Tokitaka Oyama, Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Franklin G. Harmon, Paloma Más, and Steve A. Kay
Science 3 August 2001: 880-883.
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Technical Comments

 Memory Consolidation and NMDA Receptors: Discrepancy Between Genetic and Pharmacological Approaches

Mark Day, Richard G. M. Morris, E. Shimizu, Y.-P. Tang, C. Rampon, Ruiben Feng, David Shrom, and J. Z. Tsien
Science 3 August 2001: 755.
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