This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Enclosing the Research Commons

Donald Kennedy
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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

BIOETHICS:
Germany Dithers Over Stem Cells, While Sweden Gives Green Light

Gretchen Vogel
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ASTRONOMY:
Britain Joins the ESO Bandwagon

Andrew Watson
Science 14 December 2001: 2262-2263.
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NIH APPOINTMENT:
Texas Oncologist Gets Cancer Institute Post

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 December 2001: 2263-2265.
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HARVARD DISAPPEARANCE:
Lab's Fate Uncertain As Search Continues

Josh Gewolb
Science 14 December 2001: 2265-2266.
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MICROBIAL GENOMES:
New Genome a Boost to Plant Studies

Elizabeth Pennisi
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MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION:
Placentals' Family Tree Drawn and Quartered

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 December 2001: 2266-2268.
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GENE THERAPY:
Gene Gemisch Cures Sickle Cell in Mice

Eliot Marshall
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GENE THERAPY:
Panel Reviews Risks of Germ Line Changes

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 December 2001: 2268-2269.
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CARCINOGENIC BACTERIA:
Cracking Gut Bugs' Cell-Skewing Strategy

Dan Ferber
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INDIA:
New Report Tackles Wealth of Problems

Pallava Bagla
Science 14 December 2001: 2269-2271.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Bed Nets Prove Their Mettle Against Malaria

Martin Enserink
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MEDICINE:
Fast Technology Drives New World of Newborn Screening

Eliot Marshall
Science 14 December 2001: 2272-2274.
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MATHEMATICS FUNDING:
NSF Initiative Gives Field a Chance to Show Relevance

Charles Seife
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A NEAR Miss Seeking the Origin of Meteorites

Richard A. Kerr
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PROFILE OF JOHN GRAHAM:
Harvard Professor Shakes Up Regulatory Policy

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 December 2001: 2277-2278.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Did Plaster Hold Neolithic Society Together?

Michael Balter
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EVOLUTIONARY GENOMICS:
The Ups and Downs of Evolution

Dennis Normile
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NORTH AFRICA:
Algeria's Hard Times Fray Scientific Bonds

Aude Sonneville
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 False Promises for European Space Science

Peter Scheid, Alfonso Colombatti, and Patrick Tabeling
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 Biotech Gap Between North and South

Jorge A. Huete-Pérez, David A. Orozco;, Peter A. Singer, and Abdallah S. Daar
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 Commercial Nature of Corn Germ Plasm

P. Stephen Baenziger
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 The Broad Reach of Helminthology

Richard L. Tao and Fred A. Lewis
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
Interconnected Stories of Brain Rhythms

György Buzsáki
Science 14 December 2001: 2295-2297.
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EVOLUTION:
Growing Trees from Molecular Data

Axel Meyer
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OCEANS:
Nota Bene: Why Did the Penguins Gasp?

Caroline Ash and Samuel Ash Croft
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CAREERS:
Competition and Careers in Biosciences

Richard Freeman, Eric Weinstein, Elizabeth Marincola, Janet Rosenbaum, and Frank Solomon
Science 14 December 2001: 2293-2294.
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Perspectives

VIROLOGY:
The X Files--One Step Closer to Closure

Don Ganem
Science 14 December 2001: 2299-2300.
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GLACIOLOGY:
How Ice Sheets Flow

Christina L. Hulbe
Science 14 December 2001: 2300-2301.
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DNA REPLICATION:
Enhanced: Genomic Views of Genome Duplication

Bruce Stillman
Science 14 December 2001: 2301-2304.
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BIOINFORMATICS:
Reality Simulation--Observe While It Happens

Herman J. C. Berendsen
Science 14 December 2001: 2304-2305.
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THERMODYNAMICS:
Glassy Water

Dennis D. Klug
Science 14 December 2001: 2305-2306.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
A One-Domain Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel in Bacteria

William A. Catterall
Science 14 December 2001: 2306-2308.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Climate Swings Come into Focus

Wally S. Broecker and Sidney Hemming
Science 14 December 2001: 2308-2309.
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Review

Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny and Its Impact on Evolutionary Biology

John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist, Rasmus Nielsen, and Jonathan P. Bollback
Science 14 December 2001: 2310-2314.
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Research Articles

The Genome of the Natural Genetic Engineer Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

Derek W. Wood, Joao C. Setubal, Rajinder Kaul, Dave E. Monks, Joao P. Kitajima, Vagner K. Okura, Yang Zhou, Lishan Chen, Gwendolyn E. Wood, Nalvo F. Almeida, Jr., Lisa Woo, Yuching Chen, Ian T. Paulsen, Jonathan A. Eisen, Peter D. Karp, Donald Bovee, Sr., Peter Chapman, James Clendenning, Glenda Deatherage, Will Gillet, Charles Grant, Tatyana Kutyavin, Ruth Levy, Meng-Jin Li, Erin McClelland, Anthony Palmieri, Christopher Raymond, Gregory Rouse, Channakhone Saenphimmachak, Zaining Wu, Pedro Romero, David Gordon, Shiping Zhang, Heayun Yoo, Yumin Tao, Phyllis Biddle, Mark Jung, William Krespan, Michael Perry, Bill Gordon-Kamm, Li Liao, Sun Kim, Carol Hendrick, Zuo-Yu Zhao, Maureen Dolan, Forrest Chumley, Scott V. Tingey, Jean-Francois Tomb, Milton P. Gordon, Maynard V. Olson, and Eugene W. Nester
Science 14 December 2001: 2317-2323.
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Genome Sequence of the Plant Pathogen and Biotechnology Agent Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58

Brad Goodner, Gregory Hinkle, Stacie Gattung, Nancy Miller, Mary Blanchard, Barbara Qurollo, Barry S. Goldman, Yongwei Cao, Manor Askenazi, Conrad Halling, Lori Mullin, Kathryn Houmiel, Jeffrey Gordon, Mark Vaudin, Oleg Iartchouk, Andrew Epp, Fang Liu, Clifford Wollam, Mike Allinger, Dahlia Doughty, Charlaine Scott, Courtney Lappas, Brian Markelz, Casey Flanagan, Chris Crowell, Jordan Gurson, Caroline Lomo, Carolyn Sear, Graham Strub, Chris Cielo, and Steven Slater
Science 14 December 2001: 2323-2328.
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Earthquake Recurrence and Rupture Dynamics of Himalayan Frontal Thrust, India

Senthil Kumar, Steven G. Wesnousky, Thomas K. Rockwell, Daniel Ragona, Vikram C. Thakur, and Gordon G. Seitz
Science 14 December 2001: 2328-2331.
Published online 29 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066195] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Destruction of the Global Phase Coherence in Ultrathin, Doubly Connected Superconducting Cylinders

Y. Liu, Yu. Zadorozhny, M. M. Rosario, B. Y. Rock, P. T. Carrigan, and H. Wang
Science 14 December 2001: 2332-2334.
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The Glass Transition of Water, Based on Hyperquenching Experiments

V. Velikov, S. Borick, and C. A. Angell
Science 14 December 2001: 2335-2338.
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High Geothermal Heat Flow, Basal Melt, and the Origin of Rapid Ice Flow in Central Greenland

Mark Fahnestock, Waleed Abdalati, Ian Joughin, John Brozena, and Prasad Gogineni
Science 14 December 2001: 2338-2342.
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A New Global Mode of Earth Deformation: Seasonal Cycle Detected

Geoffrey Blewitt, David Lavallée, Peter Clarke, and Konstantin Nurutdinov
Science 14 December 2001: 2342-2345.
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A High-Resolution Absolute-Dated Late Pleistocene Monsoon Record from Hulu Cave, China

Y. J. Wang, H. Cheng, R. L. Edwards, Z. S. An, J. Y. Wu, C.-C. Shen, and J. A. Dorale
Science 14 December 2001: 2345-2348.
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Resolution of the Early Placental Mammal Radiation Using Bayesian Phylogenetics

William J. Murphy, Eduardo Eizirik, Stephen J. O'Brien, Ole Madsen, Mark Scally, Christophe J. Douady, Emma Teeling, Oliver A. Ryder, Michael J. Stanhope, Wilfried W. de Jong, and Mark S. Springer
Science 14 December 2001: 2348-2351.
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The Closest Living Relatives of Land Plants

Kenneth G. Karol, Richard M. McCourt, Matthew T. Cimino, and Charles F. Delwiche
Science 14 December 2001: 2351-2353.
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Water Permeation Across Biological Membranes: Mechanism and Dynamics of Aquaporin-1 and GlpF

Bert L. de Groot and Helmut Grubmüller
Science 14 December 2001: 2353-2357.
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Genome-Wide Distribution of ORC and MCM Proteins in S. cerevisiae: High-Resolution Mapping of Replication Origins

John J. Wyrick, Jennifer G. Aparicio, Ting Chen, John D. Barnett, Ezra G. Jennings, Richard A. Young, Stephen P. Bell, and Oscar M. Aparicio
Science 14 December 2001: 2357-2360.
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Visualization of DNA Replication on Individual Epstein-Barr Virus Episomes

Paolo Norio and Carl L. Schildkraut
Science 14 December 2001: 2361-2364.
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Systematic Genetic Analysis with Ordered Arrays of Yeast Deletion Mutants

Amy Hin Yan Tong, Marie Evangelista, Ainslie B. Parsons, Hong Xu, Gary D. Bader, Nicholas Pagé, Mark Robinson, Sasan Raghibizadeh, Christopher W. V. Hogue, Howard Bussey, Brenda Andrews, Mike Tyers, and Charles Boone
Science 14 December 2001: 2364-2368.
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Correction of Sickle Cell Disease in Transgenic Mouse Models by Gene Therapy

Robert Pawliuk, Karen A. Westerman, Mary E. Fabry, Emmanuel Payen, Robert Tighe, Eric E. Bouhassira, Seetharama A. Acharya, James Ellis, Irving M. London, Connie J. Eaves, R. Keith Humphries, Yves Beuzard, Ronald L. Nagel, and Philippe Leboulch
Science 14 December 2001: 2368-2371.
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A Prokaryotic Voltage-Gated Sodium Channel

Dejian Ren, Betsy Navarro, Haoxing Xu, Lixia Yue, Qing Shi, and David E. Clapham
Science 14 December 2001: 2372-2375.
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Calcium Signaling by HBx Protein in Hepatitis B Virus DNA Replication

Michael J. Bouchard, Li-Hua Wang, and Robert J. Schneider
Science 14 December 2001: 2376-2378.
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