This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Livestock Diseases and Human Health

Jakob Zinsstag and Mitchell G. Weiss
Science 19 October 2001: 477.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 19 October 2001: 483.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 19 October 2001: 629-633.

News of the Week

BIOTERRORISM:
This Time It Was Real: Knowledge Of Anthrax Put to the Test

Martin Enserink
Science 19 October 2001: 490-491.
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PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL:
NIH Chafes at Limits On Attending Meetings

Constance Holden
Science 19 October 2001: 491-493.
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BIOMEDICAL PHILANTHROPY:
Klausner Makes Case For New Foundation

David Malakoff
Science 19 October 2001: 493.
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SYNCHROTRON RADIATION:
Swiss Source Shows Small Is Powerful

Giselle Weiss
Science 19 October 2001: 494.
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WEATHER FORECASTING:
Getting a Handle on The North's 'El Niño'

Richard A. Kerr
Science 19 October 2001: 494-495.
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VOLCANOLOGY:
Vesuvius: A Threat Subsiding?

Alexander Hellemans
Science 19 October 2001: 495-497.
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ASTRONOMY:
Pulsars Solve Mystery Of Missing Gas

Govert Schilling
Science 19 October 2001: 497.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BIOTERRORISM:
Vaccines for Biodefense: A System in Distress

Jon Cohen and Eliot Marshall
Science 19 October 2001: 498-501.
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BIOTERRORISM:
Blocking Smallpox: A Second Defense

Jon Cohen
Science 19 October 2001: 500.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
Cycling Toward Stockholm

Michael Balter and Gretchen Vogel
Science 19 October 2001: 502-503.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS:
Laurels for a New Type of Matter

Charles Seife
Science 19 October 2001: 503.
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NOBEL PRIZES:
Science Awards Pack a Full House of Winners

Robert F. Service
Science 19 October 2001: 503-505.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS:
Knowledge Is Power

Barry Cipra
Science 19 October 2001: 505.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Hard-Won Advances Spark Excitement About Hepatitis C

Charlene Crabb
Science 19 October 2001: 506-507.
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ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE:
Bad for the Heart, Bad For the Mind?

Jean Marx
Science 19 October 2001: 508-509.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 19 October 2001: 519.
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 Innovation and Inspiration in Education

Richard H. Brodhead, Robert J. Wyman;, John R. Jungck;, Frank Heppner;, and Andrew Fraknoi
Science 19 October 2001: 519-520.
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 Science Education in a University Town

Lady Mayor Beate Weber
Science 19 October 2001: 520-521.
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 HIV/AIDS Control in Sub-Saharan Africa

Stefan Hanson, Bernhard Schwartländer, and Neff Walker
Science 19 October 2001: 521-523.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HIGHER EDUCATION:
Course Changes for the Research University

Robert M. Rosenzweig
Science 19 October 2001: 527-528.
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STATISTICS:
Casting Light on the Shadow of Doubt

Jane Hawkins
Science 19 October 2001: 528.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

Science 19 October 2001: 528.

Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
The Mexico City Policy and U.S. Family Planning Assistance

Richard P. Cincotta and Barbara B. Crane
Science 19 October 2001: 525-526.
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Perspectives

COSMOLOGY:
A Census of Cosmic Matter

Brian D. Fields
Science 19 October 2001: 529-530.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Enhanced: Endothelium--Chicken Soup for the Endoderm

Nathan Bahary and Leonard I. Zon
Science 19 October 2001: 530-531.
Published online 27 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066282] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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GENETICS AND EVOLUTION:
Come Fly, and Leave the Baggage Behind

Richard E. Lenski
Science 19 October 2001: 533-534.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Stress, NK Receptors, and Immune Surveillance

Drew M. Pardoll
Science 19 October 2001: 534-536.
Published online 20 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066284] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS:
It's All About Contacts

K. W. Hipps
Science 19 October 2001: 536-537.
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ASTRONOMY:
Toward Resolving the Mystery of Galaxy Formation

Marco Scodeggio
Science 19 October 2001: 537-538.
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Tech.Sight

Biochips for Gene Spotting

K. K. Jain
Science 19 October 2001: 621-623.
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Review

The Mitotic Spindle: A Self-Made Machine

E. Karsenti and I. Vernos
Science 19 October 2001: 543-547.
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Research Articles

Sexual Recombination and the Power of Natural Selection

William R. Rice and Adam K. Chippindale
Science 19 October 2001: 555-559.
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Liver Organogenesis Promoted by Endothelial Cells Prior to Vascular Function

Kunio Matsumoto, Hideyuki Yoshitomi, Janet Rossant, and Kenneth S. Zaret
Science 19 October 2001: 559-563.
Published online 27 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063889] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Induction of Pancreatic Differentiation by Signals from Blood Vessels

Eckhard Lammert, Ondine Cleaver, and Douglas Melton
Science 19 October 2001: 564-567.
Published online 27 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064344] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Charge Migration in DNA: Ion-Gated Transport

Robert N. Barnett, Charles L. Cleveland, Abraham Joy, Uzi Landman, and Gary B. Schuster
Science 19 October 2001: 567-571.
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Reproducible Measurement of Single-Molecule Conductivity

X. D. Cui, A. Primak, X. Zarate, J. Tomfohr, O. F. Sankey, A. L. Moore, T. A. Moore, D. Gust, G. Harris, and S. M. Lindsay
Science 19 October 2001: 571-574.
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Present-Day Crustal Deformation in China Constrained by Global Positioning System Measurements

Qi Wang, Pei-Zhen Zhang, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Roger Bilham, Kristine M. Larson, Xi'an Lai, Xinzhao You, Zhijun Niu, Jianchun Wu, Yanxin Li, Jingnan Liu, Zhiqiang Yang, and Qizhi Chen
Science 19 October 2001: 574-577.
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The Initiation of Subduction: Criticality by Addition of Water?

Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Dave A. Yuen, and Joy Branlund
Science 19 October 2001: 578-580.
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Stratospheric Harbingers of Anomalous Weather Regimes

Mark P. Baldwin and Timothy J. Dunkerton
Science 19 October 2001: 581-584.
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Climatic Impact of Tropical Lowland Deforestation on Nearby Montane Cloud Forests

R. O. Lawton, U. S. Nair, R. A. Pielke, Sr., and R. M. Welch
Science 19 October 2001: 584-587.
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A Fossil Lemur from the Oligocene of Pakistan

Laurent Marivaux, Jean-Loup Welcomme, Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Grégoire Métais, Ibrahim M. Baloch, Mouloud Benammi, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Stéphane Ducrocq, and Jean-Jacques Jaeger
Science 19 October 2001: 587-591.
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Caenorhabditis elegans p53: Role in Apoptosis, Meiosis, and Stress Resistance

W. Brent Derry, Aaron P. Putzke, and Joel H. Rothman
Science 19 October 2001: 591-595.
Published online 13 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065486] (in Science Express Reports)
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Integration Between the Epibranchial Placodes and the Hindbrain

Jo Begbie and Anthony Graham
Science 19 October 2001: 595-598.
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Crystal Structure of an Early Protein-RNA Assembly Complex of the Signal Recognition Particle

Klemens Wild, Irmgard Sinning, and Stephen Cusack
Science 19 October 2001: 598-601.
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Lattice Effects Observed in Chaotic Dynamics of Experimental Populations

Shandelle M. Henson, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, Robert A. Desharnais, Brian Dennis, and Aaron A. King
Science 19 October 2001: 602-605.
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Regulation of Cutaneous Malignancy by T Cells

Michael Girardi, David E. Oppenheim, Carrie R. Steele, Julia M. Lewis, Earl Glusac, Renata Filler, Paul Hobby, Brian Sutton, Robert E. Tigelaar, and Adrian C. Hayday
Science 19 October 2001: 605-609.
Published online 20 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063916] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Trypanosome Structure Involved in Transmitting Cytoplasmic Information During Cell Division

Flávia F. Moreira-Leite, Trevor Sherwin, Linda Kohl, and Keith Gull
Science 19 October 2001: 610-612.
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Technical Comments

Variation in Food Supply, Time of Breeding, and Energy Expenditure in Birds

Simon Verhulst, Joost M. Tinbergen, Donald W. Thomas, Jacques Blondel, Philippe Perret, Marcel M. Lambrechts, and John R. Speakman
Science 19 October 2001: 471.
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