This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Human Embryo Research: Lessons from History

LeRoy Walters
Science 24 August 2001: 1401.
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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

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News of the Week

THE GULF WAR'S AFTERMATH:
Kuwait Unveils Plan to Treat Festering Desert Wound

Ben Shouse
Science 24 August 2001: 1410.
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COSMOLOGY:
Changing Constants Cause Controversy

Charles Seife
Science 24 August 2001: 1410-1411.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Wellcome Rules Widen the Net

Robert Koenig
Science 24 August 2001: 1411.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Silicon Lights the Way to Faster Data Flow

Robert F. Service
Science 24 August 2001: 1413-1414.
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ECOLOGY:
African Elephant Species Splits in Two

Gretchen Vogel
Science 24 August 2001: 1414.
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VIROLOGY:
Finally, a Handle on the Hantaviruses

Martin Enserink
Science 24 August 2001: 1414-1415.
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ANIMAL CARE:
Coulston Loses NIH Tie, Faces Hard Times

Josh Gewolb
Science 24 August 2001: 1415-1417.
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CANADA:
Scientists Want Tougher Endangered Species Law

Jay Withgott
Science 24 August 2001: 1417.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEUROSCIENCE:
New Brain Institute Struggles for Traction

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 August 2001: 1418-1422.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Nearby Rival Takes Quieter Course

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 August 2001: 1419.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Sharp Edges Into New Terrain

Andrew Lawler
Science 24 August 2001: 1420.
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DNA FORENSICS:
Laying Ghosts to Rest in Bosnia

Susan Ladika
Science 24 August 2001: 1422-1423.
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ASTRONOMY:
India Seeks Partners for 'Himalayan Space Telescope'

Pallava Bagla
Science 24 August 2001: 1423-1424.
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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA:
Forests: No Greenhouse Antidote?

Dan Ferber
Science 24 August 2001: 1425.
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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA:
Breeding a Hardier Weed

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 August 2001: 1425-1427.
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ECOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA:
Case of the Missing Mammals

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 August 2001: 1427.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 A Smithsonian Jewel: Biological Collections

Scott E. Miller
Science 24 August 2001: 1433.
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 Geneticists' Views on Embryonic Stem Cells

Isaac Rabino
Science 24 August 2001: 1433-1434.
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 Parasitic Plants Major Problem to Food Crops

Lytton John Musselman, John I. Yoder, and James H. Westwood
Science 24 August 2001: 1434.
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 The Brain's Susceptibility to Amyloid Plaques

Philip C. Wong, Donald L. Price, and Huaibin Cai
Science 24 August 2001: 1434.
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 Chiral Selection When Stirred, not Shaken

Donald S. Matteson;, J. M. Ribó, J. Crusats, F. Saguès, J. Claret, and R. Rubires
Science 24 August 2001: 1435.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GEOLOGY:
The Story of Strata-Smith

David Oldroyd
Science 24 August 2001: 1439-1440.
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BIOGRAPHY:
The Model Science Adviser

Keith O'Nions
Science 24 August 2001: 1440.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Medical Helminthology in the 21st Century

Daniel G. Colley, Philip T. LoVerde, and Lorenzo Savioli
Science 24 August 2001: 1437-1438.
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ENERGY:
Exploiting Wind Versus Coal

Mark Z. Jacobson and Gilbert M. Masters
Science 24 August 2001: 1438.
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Perspectives

PLANT BIOLOGY:
Pollen Tube Guidance--Right on Target

Alice Y. Cheung and Hen-ming Wu
Science 24 August 2001: 1441-1442.
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EARTHQUAKES:
Himalayan Seismic Hazard

Roger Bilham, Vinod K. Gaur, and Peter Molnar
Science 24 August 2001: 1442-1444.
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BIOREMEDIATION:
Anaerobes to the Rescue

Derek R. Lovley
Science 24 August 2001: 1444-1446.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Enhanced: Tauists and baptists United--Well Almost!

Virginia M.-Y. Lee
Science 24 August 2001: 1446-1447.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Caveolae--Not Just Craters in the Cellular Landscape

Jeoung-Sook Shin and Soman N. Abraham
Science 24 August 2001: 1447-1448.
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Review

A Portrait of Alzheimer Secretases--New Features and Familiar Faces

William P. Esler and Michael S. Wolfe
Science 24 August 2001: 1449-1454.
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Reports

Highly Polarized Photoluminescence and Photodetection from Single Indium Phosphide Nanowires

Jianfang Wang, Mark S. Gudiksen, Xiangfeng Duan, Yi Cui, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 24 August 2001: 1455-1457.
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Time-Resolved Measurement of Dissipation-Induced Decoherence in a Josephson Junction

Siyuan Han, Yang Yu, Xi Chu, Shih-I Chu, and Zhen Wang
Science 24 August 2001: 1457-1459.
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Water-Induced Fabric Transitions in Olivine

Haemyeong Jung and Shun-ichiro Karato
Science 24 August 2001: 1460-1463.
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Repeating Deep Earthquakes: Evidence for Fault Reactivation at Great Depth

Douglas A. Wiens and Nathaniel O. Snider
Science 24 August 2001: 1463-1466.
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An Ultradense Polymorph of Rutile with Seven-Coordinated Titanium from the Ries Crater

Ahmed El Goresy, Ming Chen, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Philippe Gillet, and Günther Graup
Science 24 August 2001: 1467-1470.
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Large Groundwater Strontium Flux to the Oceans from the Bengal Basin and the Marine Strontium Isotope Record

Asish R. Basu, Stein B. Jacobsen, Robert J. Poreda, Carolyn B. Dowling, and Pradeep K. Aggarwal
Science 24 August 2001: 1470-1473.
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Genetic Evidence for Two Species of Elephant in Africa

Alfred L. Roca, Nicholas Georgiadis, Jill Pecon-Slattery, and Stephen J. O'Brien
Science 24 August 2001: 1473-1477.
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The Ground State of the Ventral Appendage in Drosophila

Fernando Casares and Richard S. Mann
Science 24 August 2001: 1477-1480.
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Pollen Tube Attraction by the Synergid Cell

Tetsuya Higashiyama, Shizu Yabe, Narie Sasaki, Yoshiki Nishimura, Shin-ya Miyagishima, Haruko Kuroiwa, and Tsuneyoshi Kuroiwa
Science 24 August 2001: 1480-1483.
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Selective Cleavage of D-Ala-D-Lac by Small Molecules: Re-Sensitizing Resistant Bacteria to Vancomycin

Gabriela Chiosis and Ivo G. Boneca
Science 24 August 2001: 1484-1487.
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Enhanced Neurofibrillary Degeneration in Transgenic Mice Expressing Mutant Tau and APP

Jada Lewis, Dennis W. Dickson, Wen-Lang Lin, Louise Chisholm, Anthony Corral, Graham Jones, Shu-Hui Yen, Naruhiko Sahara, Lisa Skipper, Debra Yager, Chris Eckman, John Hardy, Mike Hutton, and Eileen McGowan
Science 24 August 2001: 1487-1491.
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Formation of Neurofibrillary Tangles in P301L Tau Transgenic Mice Induced by A42 Fibrils

J. Götz, F. Chen, J. van Dorpe, and R. M. Nitsch
Science 24 August 2001: 1491-1495.
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Activation by IKK of a Second, Evolutionary Conserved, NF-B Signaling Pathway

Uwe Senftleben, Yixue Cao, Gutian Xiao, Florian R. Greten, Gertraud Krähn, Giuseppina Bonizzi, Yi Chen, Yinling Hu, Abraham Fong, Shao-Cong Sun, and Michael Karin
Science 24 August 2001: 1495-1499.
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Crystal Structure of Sensory Rhodopsin II at 2.4 Angstroms: Insights into Color Tuning and Transducer Interaction

Hartmut Luecke, Brigitte Schobert, Janos K. Lanyi, Elena N. Spudich, and John L. Spudich
Science 24 August 2001: 1499-1503.
Published online 12 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062977] (in Science Express Reports)
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Selective Transcription and Modulation of Resting T Cell Activity by Preintegrated HIV DNA

Yuntao Wu and Jon W. Marsh
Science 24 August 2001: 1503-1506.
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Representation of Perceived Object Shape by the Human Lateral Occipital Complex

Zoe Kourtzi and Nancy Kanwisher
Science 24 August 2001: 1506-1509.
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Technical Comments

 On the Dynamic Origins of Allosteric Activation

A. Joshua Wand and Dorothee Kern
Science 24 August 2001: 1395.
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