This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Australia: Investing in Innovation

Suzanne Cory
Science 21 September 2001: 2169.
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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 21 September 2001: 2281-2284.

News of the Week

ANTITERRORISM PROGRAMS:
The Unthinkable Becomes Real for a Horrified World

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 September 2001: 2182-2185.
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ANTITERRORISM PROGRAMS:
Intense Fire Doomed Trade Center Towers

David Malakoff
Science 21 September 2001: 2182-2183.
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LASKER AWARDS:
Geneticists Knock Out Lasker Competition

Constance Holden
Science 21 September 2001: 2186.
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ANIMAL CARE:
Report Castigates Indian Lab Practices

Pallava Bagla
Science 21 September 2001: 2186-2187.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING:
Peer Review and Quality: A Dubious Connection?

Martin Enserink
Science 21 September 2001: 2187-2188.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
New Model Shows Sun Was a Hot Young Star

Govert Schilling
Science 21 September 2001: 2188-2189.
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CANADA:
Inuit Claims Hinder NASA Mars Project

Wayne Kondro
Science 21 September 2001: 2189.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH:
Second Look at Arsenic Finds Higher Risk

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 September 2001: 2189.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
All Fired Up: A Universal Metabolic Rate

Kathryn Brown
Science 21 September 2001: 2191.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEUROSCIENCE:
New Leads on the 'How' of Alzheimer's

Jean Marx
Science 21 September 2001: 2192-2194.
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U.S. RESEARCH CAPACITY:
A Controversial IDeA to Shrink the Biomedical Gap

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 September 2001: 2195-2196.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Bold Corridor Project Confronts Political Reality

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 September 2001: 2196-2199.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Building a Case for Biological Corridors

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 September 2001: 2199.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Elephant Hunting and Conservation

N. Leader-Williams, R. J. Smith, M. J. Walpole;, Karen McComb, Cynthia Moss, and Sarah Durant
Science 21 September 2001: 2203-2204.
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 The Fourth Dimension in Cellular Signaling

Jeffrey W. Karpen, Thomas C. Rich;, Duane D. Hall, and Johannes W. Hell
Science 21 September 2001: 2204-2205.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTION:
Everyday Impacts of a Most Influential Theory

Timothy H. Goldsmith
Science 21 September 2001: 2209-2210.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Beautiful Transfer of Information

Mary B. Kennedy
Science 21 September 2001: 2210-2211.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Despised Source of Whining and Worse

John Farley
Science 21 September 2001: 2211.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT:
Can We Defy Nature's End?

Stuart L. Pimm, Márcio Ayres, Andrew Balmford, George Branch, Katrina Brandon, Thomas Brooks, Rodrigo Bustamante, Robert Costanza, Richard Cowling, Lisa M. Curran, Andrew Dobson, Stephen Farber, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Claude Gascon, Roger Kitching, Jeffrey McNeely, Thomas Lovejoy, Russell A. Mittermeier, Norman Myers, Jonathan A. Patz, Bradley Raffle, David Rapport, Peter Raven, Callum Roberts, Jon Paul Rodríguez, Anthony B. Rylands, Compton Tucker, Carl Safina, Cristián Samper, Melanie L. J. Stiassny, Jatna Supriatna, Diana H. Wall, and David Wilcove
Science 21 September 2001: 2207-2208.
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
The Land Between Mendelian and Multifactorial Inheritance

Arthur H. M. Burghes, Harald E. F. Vaessin, and Albert de la Chapelle
Science 21 September 2001: 2213-2214.
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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
Enhanced: The Inga--Newcomer or Museum Antiquity?

Eldredge Bermingham and Christopher Dick
Science 21 September 2001: 2214-2216.
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EVOLUTION:
The Ancestry of Whales

Kenneth D. Rose
Science 21 September 2001: 2216-2217.
Published online 19 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065305] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Optics in the Nano-World

S. W. Koch and A. Knorr
Science 21 September 2001: 2217-2218.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Bridging the Atmospheric Divide

Martin J. Jarvis
Science 21 September 2001: 2218-2219.
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Tech.Sight

Modeling--A Tool for Experimentalists

Romas Kazlauskas
Science 21 September 2001: 2277-2279.
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Reports

The Kondo Effect in an Artificial Quantum Dot Molecule

H. Jeong, A. M. Chang, and M. R. Melloch
Science 21 September 2001: 2221-2223.
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Near-Field Coherent Spectroscopy and Microscopy of a Quantum Dot System

J. R. Guest, T. H. Stievater, Gang Chen, E. A. Tabak, B. G. Orr, D. G. Steel, D. Gammon, and D. S. Katzer
Science 21 September 2001: 2224-2227.
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Hydrogen Sensors and Switches from Electrodeposited Palladium Mesowire Arrays

Frédéric Favier, Erich C. Walter, Michael P. Zach, Thorsten Benter, and Reginald M. Penner
Science 21 September 2001: 2227-2231.
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Changes in Seismic Anisotropy After Volcanic Eruptions: Evidence from Mount Ruapehu

Vicki Miller and Martha Savage
Science 21 September 2001: 2231-2233.
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The Tagish Lake Meteorite: A Possible Sample from a D-Type Asteroid

Takahiro Hiroi, Michael E. Zolensky, and Carle M. Pieters
Science 21 September 2001: 2234-2236.
Published online 23 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063734] (in Science Express Reports)
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The Organic Content of the Tagish Lake Meteorite

Sandra Pizzarello, Yongsong Huang, Luann Becker, Robert J. Poreda, Ronald A. Nieman, George Cooper, and Michael Williams
Science 21 September 2001: 2236-2239.
Published online 23 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062614] (in Science Express Reports)
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Origin of Whales from Early Artiodactyls: Hands and Feet of Eocene Protocetidae from Pakistan

Philip D. Gingerich, Munir ul Haq, Iyad S. Zalmout, Intizar Hussain Khan, and M. Sadiq Malkani
Science 21 September 2001: 2239-2242.
Published online 19 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063902] (in Science Express Reports)
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Rapid Diversification of a Species-Rich Genus of Neotropical Rain Forest Trees

James E. Richardson, R. Toby Pennington, Terence D. Pennington, and Peter M. Hollingsworth
Science 21 September 2001: 2242-2245.
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Impact of Landscape Management on the Genetic Structure of Red Squirrel Populations

Marie L. Hale, Peter W. W. Lurz, Mark D. F. Shirley, Steven Rushton, Robin M. Fuller, and Kirsten Wolff
Science 21 September 2001: 2246-2248.
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Effects of Size and Temperature on Metabolic Rate

James F. Gillooly, James H. Brown, Geoffrey B. West, Van M. Savage, and Eric L. Charnov
Science 21 September 2001: 2248-2251.
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A Circadian Output in Drosophila Mediated by Neurofibromatosis-1 and Ras/MAPK

Julie A. Williams, Henry S. Su, Andre Bernards, Jeffrey Field, and Amita Sehgal
Science 21 September 2001: 2251-2256.
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Triallelic Inheritance in Bardet-Biedl Syndrome, a Mendelian Recessive Disorder

Nicholas Katsanis, Stephen J. Ansley, Jose L. Badano, Erica R. Eichers, Richard Alan Lewis, Bethan E. Hoskins, Peter J. Scambler, William S. Davidson, Philip L. Beales, and James R. Lupski
Science 21 September 2001: 2256-2259.
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Positive Regulation of T Cell Activation and Integrin Adhesion by the Adapter Fyb/Slap

Emily K. Griffiths, Connie Krawczyk, Young-Yun Kong, Monika Raab, Sharon J. Hyduk, Denis Bouchard, Vera S. Chan, Ivona Kozieradzki, Antonio J. Oliveira-dos-Santos, Andrew Wakeham, Pamela S. Ohashi, Myron I. Cybulsky, Christopher E. Rudd, and Josef M. Penninger
Science 21 September 2001: 2260-2263.
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Coupling of the TCR to Integrin Activation by SLAP-130/Fyb

Erik J. Peterson, Melody L. Woods, Sally A. Dmowski, Geo Derimanov, Martha S. Jordan, Jennifer N. Wu, Peggy S. Myung, Qing-Hua Liu, Jonathan T. Pribila, Bruce D. Freedman, Yoji Shimizu, and Gary A. Koretzky
Science 21 September 2001: 2263-2265.
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Identification of Critical Staphylococcal Genes Using Conditional Phenotypes Generated by Antisense RNA

Yinduo Ji, Barbara Zhang, Stephanie F. Van, Horn, Patrick Warren, Gary Woodnutt, Martin K. R. Burnham, and Martin Rosenberg
Science 21 September 2001: 2266-2269.
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A Role for the RNase III Enzyme DCR-1 in RNA Interference and Germ Line Development in Caenorhabditis elegans

Scott W. Knight and Brenda L. Bass
Science 21 September 2001: 2269-2271.
Published online 2 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062039] (in Science Express Reports)
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Compartmentalized and Binary Behavior of Terminal Dendrites in Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons

Dong-Sheng Wei, Yan-Ai Mei, Ashish Bagal, Joseph P. Y. Kao, Scott M. Thompson, and Cha-Min Tang
Science 21 September 2001: 2272-2275.
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Technical Comments

 Roots of Clinical Resistance to STI-571 Cancer Therapy

Christophe Barthe, Pascale Cony-Makhoul, Junia V. Melo, Josy Reiffers François-Xavier Mahon, Andreas Hochhaus, Sebastian Kreil, Amie Corbin, Paul La Rosée, Tanja Lahaye, Ute Berger, Nicholas C.P. Cross, Werner Linkesch, Brian J. Druker, Rüdiger Hehlmann, Carlo Gambacorti- Passerini, Gianmarco Corneo, Maurizio D'Incalci, Mercedes Gorre, Neil Shah, Katharine Ellwood, John Nicoll, and Charles L. Sawyers
Science 21 September 2001: 2163.
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