This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science, Terrorism, and Natural Disasters

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

Science 18 January 2002: 521-523.

News of the Week

FORENSIC SCIENCE:
Fingerprinting Doesn't Hold Up as a Science in Court

Adrian Cho
Science 18 January 2002: 418.
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ANTIQUITIES:
Global Support Grows for Afghan Restoration

Andrew Lawler
Science 18 January 2002: 419.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Mammalian Cells Spin a Spidery New Yarn

Robert F. Service
Science 18 January 2002: 419-421.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Stripping the Nucleolus Down to Its Proteins

Jennifer Couzin
Science 18 January 2002: 422.
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MILITARY RESEARCH:
Army Ordered to Hunt Down New Technology

David Malakoff
Science 18 January 2002: 422-423.
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ASTRONOMY:
Star-Spangled Universe Dawned in Early Light

Govert Schilling
Science 18 January 2002: 423-425.
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THERMODYNAMICS:
Quantum Engine Blasts Past High Gear

David Voss
Science 18 January 2002: 425.
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GEOBACTERIA:
Microbes Use Mud to Make Electricity

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 18 January 2002: 425-426.
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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH:
Bush Trades Hybrid for Hydrogen Model

David Malakoff and Robert F. Service
Science 18 January 2002: 426-427.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Anthrax Vaccine Begins a New Round of Tests

Eliot Marshall
Science 18 January 2002: 427-429.
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JAPAN:
Libraries Seek Ways to Hold Down Costs

Dennis Normile
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TAIWAN:
Frank Shu Named University Head

Dennis Normile
Science 18 January 2002: 429.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CENTRAL ASIA:
Caspian Ecology Teeters On the Brink

Richard Stone
Science 18 January 2002: 430-433.
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CENTRAL ASIA:
Pillars of Fire, Poison Gas--and Gobs of Oil, Too

Tim Burnhill
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
New Weapons in the Battle of the Bugs

Dan Ferber
Science 18 January 2002: 433-434.
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SPACE BIOMEDICINE:
An Rx for Astronauts

Andrew Lawler
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 The "Corporatization" of Science

David M. Hart; and Donald Kennedy
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 Nobel Women

David Wade
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 Barbara McClintock's Long Postdoc Years

Nathaniel C. Comfort
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 Hold the (Cell) Phone...

Allan H. Frey; and Mark Parascandola
Science 18 January 2002: 440-441.
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 JGR Authors Set the Record Straight

Michael E. Schlesinger and Natalia Andronova
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ENVIRONMENT:
A Convincing Call for Conservation

Norman Myers
Science 18 January 2002: 447-448.
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CHEMISTRY:
The Elements of an Education

Leo P. Kadanoff
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

SCIENCE IN EUROPE:
Implementing the European Research Area

Enric Banda
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SCIENCE IN EUROPE:
Framework Programmes Evolve

Hans Wigzell
Science 18 January 2002: 443-445.
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SCIENCE IN EUROPE:
Biomedical Research and International Collaboration

George Radda
Science 18 January 2002: 445-446.
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SCIENCE IN EUROPE:
European Science

Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker
Science 18 January 2002: 446.
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Perspectives

NEUROBIOLOGY:
Learning More About NMDA Receptor Regulation

Anirvan Ghosh
Science 18 January 2002: 449-451.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Enhanced: On Thickening Ice?

Richard B. Alley
Science 18 January 2002: 451-452.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Tuning Order in Cuprate Superconductors

Subir Sachdev and Shou-Cheng Zhang
Science 18 January 2002: 452-454.
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ECOLOGY:
Inbreeding and Metapopulations

Anthony R. Ives and Michael C. Whitlock
Science 18 January 2002: 454-455.
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CELL CYCLE:
A Trigger for Centrosome Duplication

Yannick Arlot-Bonnemains and Claude Prigent
Science 18 January 2002: 455-456.
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Tech.Sight

Robotic Laboratory Automation

James Boyd
Science 18 January 2002: 517-518.
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Review

Organogenesis--Heart and Blood Formation from the Zebrafish Point of View

Christine Thisse and Leonard I. Zon
Science 18 January 2002: 457-462.
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Brevia

 SIVcpz in Wild Chimpanzees

Mario L. Santiago, Cynthia M. Rodenburg, Shadrack Kamenya, Frederic Bibollet-Ruche, Feng Gao, Elizabeth Bailes, Sreelatha Meleth, Seng-Jaw Soong, J. Michael Kilby, Zina Moldoveanu, Babette Fahey, Martin N. Muller, Ahidjo Ayouba, Eric Nerrienet, Harold M. McClure, Jonathan L. Heeney, Anne E. Pusey, D. Anthony Collins, Christophe Boesch, Richard W. Wrangham, Jane Goodall, Paul M. Sharp, George M. Shaw, and Beatrice H. Hahn
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Reports

A Four Unit Cell Periodic Pattern of Quasi-Particle States Surrounding Vortex Cores in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊

J. E. Hoffman, E. W. Hudson, K. M. Lang, V. Madhavan, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis
Science 18 January 2002: 466-469.
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Systematic Design of Pore Size and Functionality in Isoreticular MOFs and Their Application in Methane Storage

Mohamed Eddaoudi, Jaheon Kim, Nathaniel Rosi, David Vodak, Joseph Wachter, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi
Science 18 January 2002: 469-472.
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Spider Silk Fibers Spun from Soluble Recombinant Silk Produced in Mammalian Cells

Anthoula Lazaris, Steven Arcidiacono, Yue Huang, Jiang-Feng Zhou, François Duguay, Nathalie Chretien, Elizabeth A. Welsh, Jason W. Soares, and Costas N. Karatzas
Science 18 January 2002: 472-476.
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Positive Mass Balance of the Ross Ice Streams, West Antarctica

Ian Joughin and Slawek Tulaczyk
Science 18 January 2002: 476-480.
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Experimental Detection of Tetranitrogen

F. Cacace, G. de Petris, and A. Troiani
Science 18 January 2002: 480-481.
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The Vibrational Spectrum of H₂O₃

A. Engdahl and B. Nelander
Science 18 January 2002: 482-483.
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Electrode-Reducing Microorganisms That Harvest Energy from Marine Sediments

Daniel R. Bond, Dawn E. Holmes, Leonard M. Tender, and Derek R. Lovley
Science 18 January 2002: 483-485.
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A Selective Advantage to Immigrant Genes in a Daphnia Metapopulation

Dieter Ebert, Christoph Haag, Mark Kirkpatrick, Myriam Riek, Jürgen W. Hottinger, and V. Ilmari Pajunen
Science 18 January 2002: 485-488.
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Systems Analysis of Ran Transport

Alicia E. Smith, Boris M. Slepchenko, James C. Schaff, Leslie M. Loew, and Ian G. Macara
Science 18 January 2002: 488-491.
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Modulation of NMDA Receptor- Dependent Calcium Influx and Gene Expression Through EphB Receptors

Mari A. Takasu, Matthew B. Dalva, Richard E. Zigmond, and Michael E. Greenberg
Science 18 January 2002: 491-495.
Published online 20 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065983] (in Science Express Reports)
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Requirement of a Macromolecular Signaling Complex for  Adrenergic Receptor Modulation of the KCNQ1-KCNE1 Potassium Channel

Steven O. Marx, Junko Kurokawa, Steven Reiken, Howard Motoike, Jeanine D'Armiento, Andrew R. Marks, and Robert S. Kass
Science 18 January 2002: 496-499.
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Calcium, Calmodulin, and CaMKII Requirement for Initiation of Centrosome Duplication in Xenopus Egg Extracts

Yutaka Matsumoto and James L. Maller
Science 18 January 2002: 499-502.
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Regulation of Life-Span by Germ-Line Stem Cells in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nuno Arantes-Oliveira, Javier Apfeld, Andrew Dillin, and Cynthia Kenyon
Science 18 January 2002: 502-505.
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Abnormal Vascular Function and Hypertension in Mice Deficient in Estrogen Receptor  

Yan Zhu, Zhao Bian, Ping Lu, Richard H. Karas, Lin Bao, Daniel Cox, Jeffrey Hodgin, Philip W. Shaul, Peter Thorén, Oliver Smithies, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, and Michael E. Mendelsohn
Science 18 January 2002: 505-508.
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Alternative Splicing and Neuritic mRNA Translocation Under Long-Term Neuronal Hypersensitivity

Eran Meshorer, Christina Erb, Roi Gazit, Lev Pavlovsky, Daniela Kaufer, Alon Friedman, David Glick, Nissim Ben-Arie, and Hermona Soreq
Science 18 January 2002: 508-512.
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Dynamics and Constancy in Cortical Spatiotemporal Patterns of Orientation Processing

Dahlia Sharon and Amiram Grinvald
Science 18 January 2002: 512-515.
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