This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Global Lab Against Influenza

Scott P. Layne, Tony J. Beugelsdijk, C. Kumar N. Patel, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, Nancy J. Cox, Ian D. Gust, Alan J. Hay, Masato Tashiro, and Daniel Lavanchy
Science 7 September 2001: 1729.
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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 7 September 2001: 1851-1853.

News of the Week

HUMAN RESEARCH:
Nigerian Families Sue Pfizer, Testing the Reach of U.S. Law

David Malakoff
Science 7 September 2001: 1742.
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JAPAN BUDGET:
Winners, Losers Abound As Reforms Kick In

Dennis Normile
Science 7 September 2001: 1743.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Integrin Crystal Structure Solved

Jennifer Couzin
Science 7 September 2001: 1743-1746.
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ELECTRONICS:
Organic Device Bids to Make Memory Cheaper

Robert F. Service
Science 7 September 2001: 1746.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
New Route to Big Brains

Laura Helmuth
Science 7 September 2001: 1746-1747.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
Group Raises Hackles as Well as Funds

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 September 2001: 1747-1749.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Body's Secret Weapon: Burning Water?

Robert F. Service
Science 7 September 2001: 1749.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MILITARY RESEARCH:
Testing Time for Missile Defense

Eliot Marshall
Science 7 September 2001: 1750-1752.
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FOOD SCIENCE:
Why Is a Soggy Potato Chip Unappetizing?

Giselle Weiss
Science 7 September 2001: 1753-1754.
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MARINE MAMMALS:
Scientists Use Strandings to Bring Species to Life

David Malakoff
Science 7 September 2001: 1754-1757.
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MARINE MAMMALS:
Why Do Marine Mammals Strand?

David Malakoff
Science 7 September 2001: 1755.
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LINGUISTICS:
From the Mouths (and Hands) of Babes

Laura Helmuth
Science 7 September 2001: 1758-1759.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 September 2001: 1763.
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 A Bountiful Harvest of Rainwater

Deep Narayan Pandey
Science 7 September 2001: 1763.
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 Long-Term Storage of Information in DNA

Carter Bancroft, Timothy Bowler, Brian Bloom, and Catherine Taylor Clelland
Science 7 September 2001: 1763-1765.
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 The Challenge of Defining Disease

Gerald I. Byrne; and James G. Wright
Science 7 September 2001: 1765-1766.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

FORENSIC SCIENCE:
Tales Told by Loops, Whorls, and Ridges

Robert Jackall
Science 7 September 2001: 1771-1772.
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ECOLOGY:
Consequences of Community Drift

Claire de Mazancourt
Science 7 September 2001: 1772.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:

Cosmology and 21st-Century Culture

Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack
Science 7 September 2001: 1769-1770.
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Perspectives

VIROLOGY:
Enhanced: A Molecular Whodunit

Robert G. Webster
Science 7 September 2001: 1773-1775.
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VIROLOGY:
Enhanced: The Origin and Control of Pandemic Influenza

Graeme Laver and Elspeth Garman
Science 7 September 2001: 1776-1777.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Devil in the Detail

David G. Vaughan, Gareth J. Marshall, William M. Connolley, John C. King, and Robert Mulvaney
Science 7 September 2001: 1777-1779.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
What Is the Moon Made of?

Paul D. Spudis
Science 7 September 2001: 1779-1781.
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ASTRONOMY:
Galaxy Clusters Reveal Their Secrets

Robert Braun
Science 7 September 2001: 1781-1782.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
The xyz of ABC Transporters

Christopher F. Higgins and Kenneth J. Linton
Science 7 September 2001: 1782-1784.
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APOPTOSIS:
Till Death Us Do Part

Abigail Hunt and Gerard Evan
Science 7 September 2001: 1784-1785.
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Review

Humans as the World's Greatest Evolutionary Force

Stephen R. Palumbi
Science 7 September 2001: 1786-1790.
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Research Article

Structure of MsbA from E. coli: A Homolog of the Multidrug Resistance ATP Binding Cassette (ABC) Transporters

Geoffrey Chang and Christopher B. Roth
Science 7 September 2001: 1793-1800.
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Reports

Hydrogen 21-Centimeter Emission from a Galaxy at Cosmological Distance

M. A. Zwaan, P. G. van Dokkum, and M. A. W. Verheijen
Science 7 September 2001: 1800-1802.
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Activation Volumes for Solid-Solid Transformations in Nanocrystals

Keren Jacobs, David Zaziski, Erik C. Scher, Amy B. Herhold, and A. Paul Alivisatos
Science 7 September 2001: 1803-1806.
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Antibody Catalysis of the Oxidation of Water

Paul Wentworth, Jr., Lyn H. Jones, Anita D. Wentworth, Xueyong Zhu, Nicholas A. Larsen, Ian A. Wilson, Xin Xu, William A. Goddard, III, Kim D. Janda, Albert Eschenmoser, and Richard A. Lerner
Science 7 September 2001: 1806-1811.
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The Role of Atomic Ensembles in the Reactivity of Bimetallic Electrocatalysts

F. Maroun, F. Ozanam, O. M. Magnussen, and R. J. Behm
Science 7 September 2001: 1811-1814.
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Mantle Flow Beneath a Continental Strike-Slip Fault: Postseismic Deformation After the 1999 Hector Mine Earthquake

Fred F. Pollitz, Chuck Wicks, and Wayne Thatcher
Science 7 September 2001: 1814-1818.
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Zipf Distribution of U.S. Firm Sizes

Robert L. Axtell
Science 7 September 2001: 1818-1820.
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Segregation of Human Neural Stem Cells in the Developing Primate Forebrain

Václav Ourednik, Jitka Ourednik, Jonathan D. Flax, W. Michael Zawada, Cynthia Hutt, Chunhua Yang, Kook I. Park, Seung U. Kim, Richard L. Sidman, Curt R. Freed, and Evan Y. Snyder
Science 7 September 2001: 1820-1824.
Published online 26 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060580] (in Science Express Reports)
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Allele-Specific Receptor-Ligand Interactions in Brassica Self-Incompatibility

Aardra Kachroo, Christel R. Schopfer, Mikhail E. Nasrallah, and June B. Nasrallah
Science 7 September 2001: 1824-1826.
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Resistance to an Herbivore Through Engineered Cyanogenic Glucoside Synthesis

David B. Tattersall, Søren Bak, Patrik R. Jones, Carl Erik Olsen, Jens K. Nielsen, Mads L. Hansen, Peter B. Høj, and Birger Lindberg Møller
Science 7 September 2001: 1826-1828.
Published online 26 July 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062249] (in Science Express Reports)
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Bmf: A Proapoptotic BH3-Only Protein Regulated by Interaction with the Myosin V Actin Motor Complex, Activated by Anoikis

Hamsa Puthalakath, Andreas Villunger, Lorraine A. O'Reilly, Jennifer G. Beaumont, Leigh Coultas, Richard E. Cheney, David C. S. Huang, and Andreas Strasser
Science 7 September 2001: 1829-1832.
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Role of the Nonsense-Mediated Decay Factor hUpf3 in the Splicing-Dependent Exon-Exon Junction Complex

V. Narry Kim, Naoyuki Kataoka, and Gideon Dreyfuss
Science 7 September 2001: 1832-1836.
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Communication of the Position of Exon-Exon Junctions to the mRNA Surveillance Machinery by the Protein RNPS1

Jens Lykke-Andersen, Mei-Di Shu, and Joan A. Steitz
Science 7 September 2001: 1836-1839.
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Molecular Basis for High Virulence of Hong Kong H5N1 Influenza A Viruses

Masato Hatta, Peng Gao, Peter Halfmann, and Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Science 7 September 2001: 1840-1842.
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Recombination in the Hemagglutinin Gene of the 1918 "Spanish Flu"

Mark J. Gibbs, John S. Armstrong, and Adrian J. Gibbs
Science 7 September 2001: 1842-1845.
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Control of Octopus Arm Extension by a Peripheral Motor Program

German Sumbre, Yoram Gutfreund, Graziano Fiorito, Tamar Flash, and Binyamin Hochner
Science 7 September 2001: 1845-1848.
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Technical Comments

 Interannual Variability in Net Primary Production and Precipitation

Jingyun Fang, Shilong Piao, Zhiyao Tang, Changhui Peng, Wei Ji, Alan K. Knapp, and Melinda D. Smith
Science 7 September 2001: 1723.
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