This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Future of Medicine

C. Everett Koop
Science 11 January 2002: 233.
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

CLINICAL TRIALS:
Proposed Rules Aim to Curb Financial Conflicts of Interest

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 11 January 2002: 246-247.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Repairs Weakened Neutrino Detector

Dennis Normile
Science 11 January 2002: 247.
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OLDEST ART:
From a Modern Human's Brow--or Doodling?

Michael Balter
Science 11 January 2002: 247-249.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Finches Adapt Rapidly to New Homes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 11 January 2002: 249-250.
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ENDANGERED SPECIES:
Fur Flies Over Charges of Misconduct

Erik Stokstad
Science 11 January 2002: 250-251.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Will Bigger Mean Better for U.K. Charity?

John Pickrell
Science 11 January 2002: 251-253.
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ASTHMA RESEARCH:
Missing Gene Takes Mice's Breath Away

Gretchen Vogel
Science 11 January 2002: 253.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Stem Cells May Shore Up Transplanted Hearts

Caroline Seydel
Science 11 January 2002: 253-254.
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U.S. BUDGET:
Spending Triples on Terrorism R&D

David Malakoff
Science 11 January 2002: 254.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Rat Brains Respond to Embryonic Stem Cells

Gretchen Vogel
Science 11 January 2002: 254-255.
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OPTICS:
Crystal Stops Light in Its Tracks

Charles Seife
Science 11 January 2002: 255.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GEOLOGY:
Subtleties of Sand Reveal How Mountains Crumble

Liese Greensfelder
Science 11 January 2002: 256-258.
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BIOENGINEERING:
Plant Scientists See Big Potential in Tiny Plastids

Josh Gewolb
Science 11 January 2002: 258-259.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Of Ocean Weather and Volcanoes

Richard A. Kerr
Science 11 January 2002: 260-261.
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
China Debates Big Drop in Women Physics Majors

Jianxiang Yang
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BRAZIL:
Tough Placebo Rules Leave Scientists Out in the Cold

Cassio Leite Vieira
Science 11 January 2002: 264.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
U.S. Programs Ask Faculty to Help Improve Schools

Jeffrey Mervis
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Closing of the National Tritium Labeling Facility

William W. Moses
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 Global Warming Continues

J. Hansen, R. Ruedy, M. Sato, and K. Lo
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 Minimizing Effects of CO₂ Storage in Oceans

G. H. Rau, K. Caldeira;, Brad A. Seibel, and Patrick J. Walsh
Science 11 January 2002: 275-276.
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 Taxonomists' Requiem?

Yves Samyn and Claude Massin
Science 11 January 2002: 276-277.
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 The Development of Electroporation

Richard Heller
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

TECHNOLOGY:
Learning Limits from Failures

Lloyd J. Dumas
Science 11 January 2002: 281.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Wider Than the Sky

Orla Smith
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

WOMEN IN SCIENCE:
European Strategies for Promoting Women in Science

Nicole Dewandre
Science 11 January 2002: 278-279.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Putting Galaxies on the Scale

Francesco Bertola
Science 11 January 2002: 283-284.
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PROTEOMICS:
Enhanced: Integrating Interactomes

Mark Gerstein, Ning Lan, and Ronald Jansen
Science 11 January 2002: 284-287.
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GENETICS:
Do X Chromosomes Set Boundaries?

Ivona Percec and Marisa S. Bartolomei
Science 11 January 2002: 287-288.
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CHEMISTRY:
A New Oxidation State for Pd?

Robert H. Crabtree
Science 11 January 2002: 288-289.
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SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY:
The Key to Successful Organic Synthesis Is...

William D. Jones
Science 11 January 2002: 289-290.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Slick Recruitment to the Golgi

Vytas A. Bankaitis
Science 11 January 2002: 290-291.
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Brevia

 Faithful Expression of Imprinted Genes in Cloned Mice

Kimiko Inoue, Takashi Kohda, Jiyoung Lee, Narumi Ogonuki, Keiji Mochida, Yoko Noguchi, Kentaro Tanemura, Tomoko Kaneko-Ishino, Fumitoshi Ishino, and Atsuo Ogura
Science 11 January 2002: 297.
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Reports

Surface Stress and Thermodynamic Nanoscale Size Selection

J. B. Hannon, J. Tersoff, and R. M. Tromp
Science 11 January 2002: 299-301.
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Continuous Wave Operation of a Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Laser at Room Temperature

Mattias Beck, Daniel Hofstetter, Thierry Aellen, Jérôme Faist, Ursula Oesterle, Marc Ilegems, Emilio Gini, and Hans Melchior
Science 11 January 2002: 301-305.
Published online 20 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066408] (in Science Express Reports)
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Remarkably Selective Iridium Catalysts for the Elaboration of Aromatic C-H Bonds

Jian-Yang Cho, Man Kin Tse, Daniel Holmes, Robert E. Maleczka, Jr., and Milton R. Smith, III
Science 11 January 2002: 305-308.
Published online 22 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1067074] (in Science Express Reports)
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Synthesis and Structure of Formally Hexavalent Palladium Complexes

Wanzhi Chen, Shigeru Shimada, and Masato Tanaka
Science 11 January 2002: 308-310.
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Direct Determination of the Timing of Sea Level Change During Termination II

Christina D. Gallup, H. Cheng, F. W. Taylor, and R. L. Edwards
Science 11 January 2002: 310-313.
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Iron-Silicon Alloy in Earth's Core?

Jung-Fu Lin, Dion L. Heinz, Andrew J. Campbell, James M. Devine, and Guoyin Shen
Science 11 January 2002: 313-315.
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Sex-Biased Hatching Order and Adaptive Population Divergence in a Passerine Bird

Alexander V. Badyaev, Geoffrey E. Hill, Michelle L. Beck, Anne A. Dervan, Renée A. Duckworth, Kevin J. McGraw, Paul M. Nolan, and Linda A. Whittingham
Science 11 January 2002: 316-318.
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Unique and Redundant Connexin Contributions to Lens Development

Thomas W. White
Science 11 January 2002: 319-320.
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A Combined Experimental and Computational Strategy to Define Protein Interaction Networks for Peptide Recognition Modules

Amy Hin Yan Tong, Becky Drees, Giuliano Nardelli, Gary D. Bader, Barbara Brannetti, Luisa Castagnoli, Marie Evangelista, Silvia Ferracuti, Bryce Nelson, Serena Paoluzi, Michele Quondam, Adriana Zucconi, Christopher W. V. Hogue, Stanley Fields, Charles Boone, and Gianni Cesareni
Science 11 January 2002: 321-324.
Published online 13 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064987] (in Science Express Reports)
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Role of Diacylglycerol in PKD Recruitment to the TGN and Protein Transport to the Plasma Membrane

Carole L. Baron and Vivek Malhotra
Science 11 January 2002: 325-328.
Published online 29 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066759] (in Science Express Reports)
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Identification of a Major Gene Regulating Complex Social Behavior

Michael J. B. Krieger and Kenneth G. Ross
Science 11 January 2002: 328-332.
Published online 15 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065247] (in Science Express Reports)
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The Potential Size and Duration of an Epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in British Sheep

R. R. Kao, M. B. Gravenor, M. Baylis, C. J. Bostock, C. M. Chihota, J. C. Evans, W. Goldmann, A. J. A. Smith, and A. R. McLean
Science 11 January 2002: 332-335.
Published online 22 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1067475] (in Science Express Reports)
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Development of Spontaneous Airway Changes Consistent with Human Asthma in Mice Lacking T-bet

Susetta Finotto, Markus F. Neurath, Jonathan N. Glickman, Shixin Qin, Hans A. Lehr, Francis H. Y. Green, Kate Ackerman, Kathleen Haley, Peter R. Galle, Susanne J. Szabo, Jeffrey M. Drazen, George T. De Sanctis, and Laurie H. Glimcher
Science 11 January 2002: 336-338.
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Distinct Effects of T-bet in T_H1 Lineage Commitment and IFN- Production in CD4 and CD8 T Cells

Susanne J. Szabo, Brandon M. Sullivan, Claudia Stemmann, Abhay R. Satoskar, Barry P. Sleckman, and Laurie H. Glimcher
Science 11 January 2002: 338-342.
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Stage-Specific Transcription of Distinct Repertoires of a Multigene Family During Plasmodium Life Cycle

P. R. Preiser, S. Khan, F. T. M. Costa, W. Jarra, E. Belnoue, S. Ogun, A. A. Holder, T. Voza, I. Landau, G. Snounou, and L. Rénia
Science 11 January 2002: 342-345.
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CTCF, a Candidate Trans-Acting Factor for X-Inactivation Choice

Wendy Chao, Khanh D. Huynh, Rebecca J. Spencer, Lance S. Davidow, and Jeannie T. Lee
Science 11 January 2002: 345-347.
Published online 6 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065982] (in Science Express Reports)
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Technical Comments

 Do Neurons Predict the Future?

Pieter R. Roelfsema, R. P. Hasegawa, A. M. Blitz, N. L. Geller, and M. E. Goldberg
Science 11 January 2002: 227.
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