This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Going It Alone

Donald Kennedy
Science 17 August 2001: 1221.
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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 17 August 2001: 1337-1339.

News of the Week

BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
NIH Wins an Exemption From HHS Peer-Review Overhaul

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 August 2001: 1234.
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ASTRONOMY:
Pull of Gravity Reveals Unseen Galaxy Cluster

Andrew Watson
Science 17 August 2001: 1234-1235.
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ADVANCED COMPUTING:
NSF Launches TeraGrid for Academic Research

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 17 August 2001: 1235-1237.
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PLANT SCIENCE:
How Seedlings See the Light

Josh Gewolb
Science 17 August 2001: 1237-1238.
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ECOLOGY:
Field Test Backs Model for Invader

Christine Mlot
Science 17 August 2001: 1238.
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HUMAN GENOME:
Less Can Be More, U.K. Study Finds

Ben Shouse
Science 17 August 2001: 1238-1239.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Queens, Not Workers, Rule the Ant Nest

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 17 August 2001: 1239-1241.
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ECOLOGY:
Parasitic Wasps Invade Hawaiian Ecosystem

Erik Stokstad
Science 17 August 2001: 1241.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
Bush Squeezes Between the Lines on Stem Cells

Gretchen Vogel
Science 17 August 2001: 1242-1245.
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BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
New Chair of Bioethics Panel Wants National Debate on Issues

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 August 2001: 1243.
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BIOMEDICAL POLICY:
"I Have Given This Issue a Great Deal of Thought ... and I Have Found Widespread Disagreement"

Science 17 August 2001: 1244-1245.
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HUMAN EVOLUTION:
Max Planck's Meeting of the Anthropological Minds

Michael Balter
Science 17 August 2001: 1246-1249.
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HUMAN EVOLUTION:
Zoo's New Primate Exhibit to Double as Research Lab

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 17 August 2001: 1247.
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SCIENCE AND COMMERCE:
Chemists for Hire: Have Flask, Will Travel

Joe Alper
Science 17 August 2001: 1249-1251.
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NATURAL DISASTERS:
Researchers Target Deadly Tsunamis

Robert Koenig
Science 17 August 2001: 1251-1253.
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NATURAL DISASTERS:
Modeling a 3600-Year-Old Tsunami Sheds Light on the Minoan Past

Robert Koenig
Science 17 August 2001: 1252.
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Wallace at Center Stage

Gareth Nelson
Science 17 August 2001: 1260-1261.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Controversial Crusader Against Cancer

Ilana Löwy
Science 17 August 2001: 1261.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Hidden Health Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

Luis Cifuentes, Victor H. Borja-Aburto, Nelson Gouveia, George Thurston, and Devra Lee Davis
Science 17 August 2001: 1257-1259.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
A Switch to Release the Motor

Richard E. Cheney and Olga C. Rodriguez
Science 17 August 2001: 1263-1264.
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ENZYMOLOGY:
Nickel to the Fore

Rudolf K. Thauer
Science 17 August 2001: 1264-1265.
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LASER PHYSICS:
Getting to Grips with Light

Tom Brown, Wilson Sibbett, and Ewan M. Wright
Science 17 August 2001: 1265-1267.
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ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION:
Whose Fish Are They Anyway?

John J. Magnuson, Carl Safina, and Michael P. Sissenwine
Science 17 August 2001: 1267-1268.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Enhanced: Patterns of Arctic Circulation

Lawrence A. Mysak
Science 17 August 2001: 1269-1270.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
TRP Ion Channels--Two Proteins in One

Irwin B. Levitan and Susan M. Cibulsky
Science 17 August 2001: 1270-1271.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Learning How a Fruit Fly Forgets

Scott Waddell and William G. Quinn
Science 17 August 2001: 1271-1272.
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Tech.Sight

Color by Number: Imaging Large Data

Carol A. Bertrand
Science 17 August 2001: 1335-1336.
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Review

The Morphological Evolution of Galaxies

Roberto G. Abraham and Sidney van den Bergh
Science 17 August 2001: 1273-1278.
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Research Article

Crystal Structure of a Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Reveals a [Ni-4Fe-5S] Cluster

Holger Dobbek, Vitali Svetlitchnyi, Lothar Gremer, Robert Huber, and Ortwin Meyer
Science 17 August 2001: 1281-1285.
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Reports

Phase-Coherent Optical Pulse Synthesis from Separate Femtosecond Lasers

Robert K. Shelton, Long-Sheng Ma, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane, John L. Hall, and Jun Ye
Science 17 August 2001: 1286-1289.
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Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and Chemical Species

Yi Cui, Qingqiao Wei, Hongkun Park, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 17 August 2001: 1289-1292.
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Stable Ordering in Langmuir-Blodgett Films

Dawn Y. Takamoto, Eray Aydil, Joseph A. Zasadzinski, Ani T. Ivanova, Daniel K. Schwartz, Tinglu Yang, and Paul S. Cremer
Science 17 August 2001: 1292-1295.
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Principles for Measurement of Chemical Exposure Based on Recognition-Driven Anchoring Transitions in Liquid Crystals

Rahul R. Shah and Nicholas L. Abbott
Science 17 August 2001: 1296-1299.
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Ring Closure of Carbon Nanotubes

Masahito Sano, Ayumi Kamino, Junko Okamura, and Seiji Shinkai
Science 17 August 2001: 1299-1301.
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Atlantic Water Flow Pathways Revealed by Lead Contamination in Arctic Basin Sediments

Charles Gobeil, Robie W. Macdonald, John N. Smith, and Luc Beaudin
Science 17 August 2001: 1301-1304.
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Southward Migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone Through the Holocene

Gerald H. Haug, Konrad A. Hughen, Daniel M. Sigman, Larry C. Peterson, and Ursula Röhl
Science 17 August 2001: 1304-1308.
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Queen Control of Sex Ratio in Fire Ants

L. Passera, S. Aron, E. L. Vargo, and L. Keller
Science 17 August 2001: 1308-1310.
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Migratory Movements, Depth Preferences, and Thermal Biology of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

Barbara A. Block, Heidi Dewar, Susanna B. Blackwell, Thomas D. Williams, Eric D. Prince, Charles J. Farwell, Andre Boustany, Steven L. H. Teo, Andrew Seitz, Andreas Walli, and Douglas Fudge
Science 17 August 2001: 1310-1314.
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Infiltration of a Hawaiian Community by Introduced Biological Control Agents

M. L. Henneman and J. Memmott
Science 17 August 2001: 1314-1316.
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Cell Cycle Regulation of Myosin-V by Calcium/Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase II

Ryan L. Karcher, Joseph T. Roland, Francesca Zappacosta, Michael J. Huddleston, Roland S. Annan, Steven A. Carr, and Vladimir I. Gelfand
Science 17 August 2001: 1317-1320.
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Cohesin Cleavage by Separase Required for Anaphase and Cytokinesis in Human Cells

Silke Hauf, Irene C. Waizenegger, and Jan-Michael Peters
Science 17 August 2001: 1320-1323.
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Vascular Abnormalities and Deregulation of VEGF in Lkb1-Deficient Mice

Antti Ylikorkala, Derrick J. Rossi, Nina Korsisaari, Keijo Luukko, Kari Alitalo, Mark Henkemeyer, and Tomi P. Mäkelä
Science 17 August 2001: 1323-1326.
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Immunocyte Ca²⁺ Influx System Mediated by LTRPC2

Yorikata Sano, Kohei Inamura, Akira Miyake, Shinobu Mochizuki, Hiromichi Yokoi, Hitoshi Matsushime, and Kiyoshi Furuichi
Science 17 August 2001: 1327-1330.
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The Role of Drosophila Mushroom Body Signaling in Olfactory Memory

Sean E. McGuire, Phuong T. Le, and Ronald L. Davis
Science 17 August 2001: 1330-1333.
Published online 7 June 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062622] (in Science Express Reports)
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