This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science and Development

Donald Kennedy
Science 7 December 2001: 2053.
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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

2003 U.S. BUDGET:
NSF to Gain Funds From Smithsonian, Other Agencies?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 7 December 2001: 2066.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
Caltech Aims for Big Jump in Women Faculty

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 December 2001: 2066.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
Men Still Have Edge in U.S. Science Careers

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 December 2001: 2067.
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SWISS BIOTECH:
Government Shoots Down GM Plant Trials

Giselle Weiss
Science 7 December 2001: 2067-2069.
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FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS:
Pathogen Researchers Get Help From TIGR

David Malakoff
Science 7 December 2001: 2069-2070.
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PATIENT PRIVACY:
Researchers Say Rules Are Too Restrictive

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 7 December 2001: 2070-2071.
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OBESITY RESEARCH:
Pot-Bellied Mice Point to Obesity Enzyme

Trisha Gura
Science 7 December 2001: 2071-2072.
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ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS:
Finding the Holes in the Magnetosphere

Andrew Watson
Science 7 December 2001: 2072.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Paring Down the Big Five Mass Extinctions

Richard A. Kerr
Science 7 December 2001: 2072-2073.
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DEVELOPING NATIONS:
Web Site Aims to Bridge North-South Divide

Ben Shouse
Science 7 December 2001: 2073.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PROTEOMICS:
High-Speed Biologists Search for Gold in Proteins

Robert F. Service
Science 7 December 2001: 2074-2077.
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PROTEOMICS:
Proteomics 2.0: The View Ahead

Robert F. Service
Science 7 December 2001: 2076.
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PROTEOMICS:
A Proteomics Upstart Tries to Outrun the Competition

Robert F. Service
Science 7 December 2001: 2079-2080.
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PROTEOMICS:
Searching for Recipes for Protein Chips

Robert F. Service
Science 7 December 2001: 2080-2082.
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PROTEOMICS:
Gene and Protein Patents Get Ready to Go Head to Head

Robert F. Service
Science 7 December 2001: 2082-2083.
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PROTEOMICS:
Rockefeller's Star Lured to San Diego Company

Eliot Marshall
Science 7 December 2001: 2083-2085.
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PROTEOMICS:
A Physicist-Turned-Biologist

Eliot Marshall
Science 7 December 2001: 2085.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 A Late Triassic Trove of Fossil Plants

Sidney Ash
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 The Pros and Cons of Nuclear Fuel Recycling

Per F. Peterson; and Frank N. von Hippel
Science 7 December 2001: 2093-2094.
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 Carbon Sinks and Conserving Biodiversity

Bas van Wesemael and Eric F. Lambin
Science 7 December 2001: 2094-2095.
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 Nomenclature for Ion Channel Subunits

Jonathan Bradley, Stephan Frings, King-Wai Yau, and Randall Reed
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Scientific Kokopelli

Bob Edgar
Science 7 December 2001: 2103-2105.
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CLIMATE:
Why Global Warming Is Controversial

George Philander
Science 7 December 2001: 2105-2106.
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PHARMACOLOGY:
The Pill in Context

Londa Schiebinger
Science 7 December 2001: 2106.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Safeguarding the World's Natural Treasures

John McCarter, Georgie Boge, and Gillian Darlow
Science 7 December 2001: 2099-2101.
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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Romanticism, Race, and Recapitulation

Gabriel Finkelstein
Science 7 December 2001: 2101-2102.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Global Change on Mars?

David A. Paige
Science 7 December 2001: 2107-2108.
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OCEAN CIRCULATION:
Thin Walls Tell the Tale

David Archer and Pamela Martin
Science 7 December 2001: 2108-2109.
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CLIMATE:
Climate Variability and the Influence of the Sun

Joanna D. Haigh
Science 7 December 2001: 2109-2111.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
RIPping Tyrosine Kinase Receptors Apart

Carl-Henrik Heldin and Johan Ericsson
Science 7 December 2001: 2111-2113.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Methylation Talk Between Histones and DNA

Adrian Bird
Science 7 December 2001: 2113-2115.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Epithelial Cell Differentiation--a Mather of Choice

Gijs R. van den Brink, Pascal de Santa Barbara, and Drucilla J. Roberts
Science 7 December 2001: 2115-2116.
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STEM CELLS:
PTEN--Coupling Tumor Suppression to Stem Cells?

Josef M. Penninger and James Woodgett
Science 7 December 2001: 2116-2118.
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 BIOMEDICINE:
Nota Bene: In the Nic of Time

Orla Smith
Science 7 December 2001: 2118.
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Review

Aerosols, Climate, and the Hydrological Cycle

V. Ramanathan, P. J. Crutzen, J. T. Kiehl, and D. Rosenfeld
Science 7 December 2001: 2119-2124.
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Research Articles

Cell Proliferation Without Neurogenesis in Adult Primate Neocortex

David R. Kornack and Pasko Rakic
Science 7 December 2001: 2127-2130.
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Persistent Solar Influence on North Atlantic Climate During the Holocene

Gerard Bond, Bernd Kromer, Juerg Beer, Raimund Muscheler, Michael N. Evans, William Showers, Sharon Hoffmann, Rusty Lotti-Bond, Irka Hajdas, and Georges Bonani
Science 7 December 2001: 2130-2136.
Published online 15 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065680] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Oscillating Rows of Vortices in Superconductors

T. Matsuda, O. Kamimura, H. Kasai, K. Harada, T. Yoshida, T. Akashi, A. Tonomura, Y. Nakayama, J. Shimoyama, K. Kishio, T. Hanaguri, and K. Kitazawa
Science 7 December 2001: 2136-2138.
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Field-Effect Modulation of the Conductance of Single Molecules

Jan Hendrik Schön, Hong Meng, and Zhenan Bao
Science 7 December 2001: 2138-2140.
Published online 8 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066171] (in Science Express Reports)
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Seasonal Variations of Snow Depth on Mars

David E. Smith, Maria T. Zuber, and Gregory A. Neumann
Science 7 December 2001: 2141-2146.
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Observational Evidence for an Active Surface Reservoir of Solid Carbon Dioxide on Mars

Michael C. Malin, Michael A. Caplinger, and Scott D. Davis
Science 7 December 2001: 2146-2148.
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Solar Forcing of Regional Climate Change During the Maunder Minimum

Drew T. Shindell, Gavin A. Schmidt, Michael E. Mann, David Rind, and Anne Waple
Science 7 December 2001: 2149-2152.
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Glacial-to-Holocene Redistribution of Carbonate Ion in the Deep Sea

Wallace S. Broecker and Elizabeth Clark
Science 7 December 2001: 2152-2155.
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Requirement of Math1 for Secretory Cell Lineage Commitment in the Mouse Intestine

Qi Yang, Nessan A. Bermingham, Milton J. Finegold, and Huda Y. Zoghbi
Science 7 December 2001: 2155-2158.
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Structural Mechanisms of QacR Induction and Multidrug Recognition

Maria A. Schumacher, Marshall C. Miller, Steve Grkovic, Melissa H. Brown, Ronald A. Skurray, and Richard G. Brennan
Science 7 December 2001: 2158-2163.
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Structural Basis for Selective Recognition of Oligosaccharides by DC-SIGN and DC-SIGNR

Hadar Feinberg, Daniel A. Mitchell, Kurt Drickamer, and William I. Weis
Science 7 December 2001: 2163-2166.
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A Transgenic Model of Visceral Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome

Hiroaki Masuzaki, Janice Paterson, Hiroshi Shinyama, Nicholas M. Morton, John J. Mullins, Jonathan R. Seckl, and Jeffrey S. Flier
Science 7 December 2001: 2166-2170.
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Rapid Killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae with a Bacteriophage Cell Wall Hydrolase

Jutta M. Loeffler, Daniel Nelson, and Vincent A. Fischetti
Science 7 December 2001: 2170-2172.
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Central Role of the CNGA4 Channel Subunit in Ca²⁺-Calmodulin-Dependent Odor Adaptation

Steven D. Munger, Andrew P. Lane, Haining Zhong, Trese Leinders-Zufall, King-Wai Yau, Frank Zufall, and Randall R. Reed
Science 7 December 2001: 2172-2175.
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Facilitation of Calmodulin-Mediated Odor Adaptation by cAMP-Gated Channel Subunits

Jonathan Bradley, Dirk Reuter, and Stephan Frings
Science 7 December 2001: 2176-2178.
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-Secretase Cleavage and Nuclear Localization of ErbB-4 Receptor Tyrosine Kinase

Chang-Yuan Ni, M. Paul Murphy, Todd E. Golde, and Graham Carpenter
Science 7 December 2001: 2179-2181.
Published online 25 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065412] (in Science Express Reports)
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Chromosome Dynamics in the Yeast Interphase Nucleus

Patrick Heun, Thierry Laroche, Kenji Shimada, Patrick Furrer, and Susan M. Gasser
Science 7 December 2001: 2181-2186.
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Negative Regulation of Neural Stem/Progenitor Cell Proliferation by the Pten Tumor Suppressor Gene in Vivo

Matthias Groszer, Rebecca Erickson, Deirdre D. Scripture-Adams, Ralf Lesche, Andreas Trumpp, Jerome A. Zack, Harley I. Kornblum, Xin Liu, and Hong Wu
Science 7 December 2001: 2186-2189.
Published online 1 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065518] (in Science Express Reports)
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Technical Comments

 Crustaceans and the "Cambrian Explosion"

Graham E. Budd, Nicholas J. Butterfield, Sören Jensen, David J. Siveter, Dieter Waloszek, Mark Williams, and Richard A. Fortey
Science 7 December 2001: 2047.
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