This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Good Prediction, Bad News

Donald Kennedy
Science 1 February 2002: 765.
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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 1 February 2002: 873.

News of the Week

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE:
Sensor Failure in 1997 Test Sparks New Controversy

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 February 2002: 776.
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ANTHRAX:
'Borrowed Immunity' May Save Future Victims

Martin Enserink
Science 1 February 2002: 777.
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NUCLEAR WASTE:
'Hot' Legacy Raises Alarm in the Caucasus

Richard Stone
Science 1 February 2002: 777-779.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Primate Parthenotes Yield Stem Cells

Constance Holden
Science 1 February 2002: 779-780.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Molecular Motors Move in Mysterious Ways

Jennifer Couzin
Science 1 February 2002: 780-781.
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SPANISH UNIVERSITIES:
Reforms Spark More Jobs--and Protests

Xavier Bosch
Science 1 February 2002: 781-782.
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PHEROMONE RECEPTION:
When in Doubt, Mice Mate Rather Than Hate

Mary Beckman
Science 1 February 2002: 782.
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MYANMAR:
Planned Reactor Ruffles Global Feathers

Richard Stone
Science 1 February 2002: 782-783.
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U.S. SUPREME COURT:
Census Case Tests Statistical Method

Charles Seife
Science 1 February 2002: 783.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Report Backs Collider and an Expanded Field

Charles Seife
Science 1 February 2002: 783-785.
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2003 BUDGET:
Bioterrorism Drives Record NIH Request

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 February 2002: 785.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SUPERCONDUCTORS:
MgB₂ Trades Performance for a Shot at the Real World

Robert F. Service
Science 1 February 2002: 786-788.
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SUPERCONDUCTORS:
YBCO Confronts Life in the Slow Lane

Robert F. Service
Science 1 February 2002: 787.
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CANADA:
New Money Widens Gap Among Universities

Wayne Kondro
Science 1 February 2002: 788-789.
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MATHEMATICS IN FILM:
Beautiful Mind's Math Guru Makes Truth = Beauty

Dana Mackenzie
Science 1 February 2002: 789-791.
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BSE IN SHEEP?:
Humiliated Lab Fights to Save Face

Michael Balter
Science 1 February 2002: 792-793.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 OTA Assessments Were Tailored for Congress

John A. Alic
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 Wales Is Not Part of England!

W. H. Evans and D. Lloyd
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 Evolution of Nitrogen Fixation

Kenneth M. Towe;, Ilana Berman-Frank, and Paul Falkowski
Science 1 February 2002: 798-799.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GEOPHYSICS:
Much About Motion in the Mantle

Yanick Ricard
Science 1 February 2002: 802-803.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Pregnancy in a Polluted World

George M. Woodwell
Science 1 February 2002: 803.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
Logic, Learning, and Experimental Medicine

Vivian Nutton
Science 1 February 2002: 800-801.
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Perspectives

COSMOLOGY:
The Saga of ³He

Robert T. Rood, T. M. Bania, and Dana S. Balser
Science 1 February 2002: 804-805.
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BIOMEDICINE:
A Cargo Receptor Mystery APParently Solved?

Sangram S. Sisodia
Science 1 February 2002: 805-807.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Enhanced: Oxygen Sensing Gets a Second Wind

Richard K. Bruick and Steven L. McKnight
Science 1 February 2002: 807-808.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Chaperones Take Flight

Stephen L. Helfand
Science 1 February 2002: 809-810.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Ultrasmall Wires Get Excited

Ulrich Zülicke
Science 1 February 2002: 810-811.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Tropical Surprises

Dennis L. Hartmann
Science 1 February 2002: 811-812.
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Review

Signal Transduction and the Control of Gene Expression

Ali H. Brivanlou and James E. Darnell, Jr.
Science 1 February 2002: 813-818.
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Brevia

 Parthenogenetic Stem Cells in Nonhuman Primates

Jose B. Cibelli, Kathleen A. Grant, Karen B. Chapman, Kerrianne Cunniff, Travis Worst, Heather L. Green, Stephen J. Walker, Philip H. Gutin, Lucy Vilner, Viviane Tabar, Tanja Dominko, Jeff Kane, Peter J. Wettstein, Robert P. Lanza, Lorenz Studer, Kent E. Vrana, and Michael D. West
Science 1 February 2002: 819.
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Research Article

Regulation of Organogenesis by the Caenorhabditis elegans FoxA Protein PHA-4

J. Gaudet and S. E. Mango
Science 1 February 2002: 821-825.
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Reports

Tunneling Spectroscopy of the Elementary Excitations in a One-Dimensional Wire

O. M. Auslaender, A. Yacoby, R. de Picciotto, K. W. Baldwin, L. N. Pfeiffer, and K. W. West
Science 1 February 2002: 825-828.
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Mapping the One-Dimensional Electronic States of Nanotube Peapod Structures

D. J. Hornbaker, S.-J. Kahng, S. Misra, B. W. Smith, A. T. Johnson, E. J. Mele, D. E. Luzzi, and A. Yazdani
Science 1 February 2002: 828-831.
Published online 3 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1068133] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Carbon-Free Sandwich Complex [(P₅)₂Ti]²

Eugenijus Urnius, William W. Brennessel, Christopher J. Cramer, John E. Ellis, and Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Science 1 February 2002: 832-834.
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Aerosol Effect on Cloud Droplet Size Monitored from Satellite

Francois-Marie Bréon, Didier Tanré, and Sylvia Generoso
Science 1 February 2002: 834-838.
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Evidence for Strengthening of the Tropical General Circulation in the 1990s

Junye Chen, Barbara E. Carlson, and Anthony D. Del Genio
Science 1 February 2002: 838-841.
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Evidence for Large Decadal Variability in the Tropical Mean Radiative Energy Budget

Bruce A. Wielicki, Takmeng Wong, Richard P. Allan, Anthony Slingo, Jeffrey T. Kiehl, Brian J. Soden, C. T. Gordon, Alvin J. Miller, Shi-Keng Yang, David A. Randall, Franklin Robertson, Joel Susskind, and Herbert Jacobowitz
Science 1 February 2002: 841-844.
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Distinguishing Inchworm and Hand-Over-Hand Processive Kinesin Movement by Neck Rotation Measurements

Wei Hua, Johnson Chung, and Jeff Gelles
Science 1 February 2002: 844-848.
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Partitioning of the Matrix Fraction of the Golgi Apparatus During Mitosis in Animal Cells

Joachim Seemann, Marc Pypaert, Tomohiko Taguchi, Jörg Malsam, and Graham Warren
Science 1 February 2002: 848-851.
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Role of Escherichia coli Curli Operons in Directing Amyloid Fiber Formation

Matthew R. Chapman, Lloyd S. Robinson, Jerome S. Pinkner, Robyn Roth, John Heuser, Mårten Hammar, Staffan Normark, and Scott J. Hultgren
Science 1 February 2002: 851-855.
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A Role for Interaction of the RNA Polymerase Flap Domain with the  Subunit in Promoter Recognition

Konstantin Kuznedelov, Leonid Minakhin, Anita Niedziela-Majka, Simon L. Dove, Dragana Rogulja, Bryce E. Nickels, Ann Hochschild, Tomasz Heyduk, and Konstantin Severinov
Science 1 February 2002: 855-857.
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Asparagine Hydroxylation of the HIF Transactivation Domain: A Hypoxic Switch

David Lando, Daniel J. Peet, Dean A. Whelan, Jeffrey J. Gorman, and Murray L. Whitelaw
Science 1 February 2002: 858-861.
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Dynamics of Depolarization and Hyperpolarization in the Frontal Cortex and Saccade Goal

Eyal Seidemann, Amos Arieli, Amiram Grinvald, and Hamutal Slovin
Science 1 February 2002: 862-865.
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Chaperone Suppression of -Synuclein Toxicity in a Drosophila Model for Parkinson's Disease

Pavan K. Auluck, H. Y. Edwin Chan, John Q. Trojanowski, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, and Nancy M. Bonini
Science 1 February 2002: 865-868.
Published online 20 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1067389] (in Science Express Reports)
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Germline Transmission and Tissue-Specific Expression of Transgenes Delivered by Lentiviral Vectors

Carlos Lois, Elizabeth J. Hong, Shirley Pease, Eric J. Brown, and David Baltimore
Science 1 February 2002: 868-872.
Published online 10 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1067081] (in Science Express Reports)
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