This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Public Health Preparedness

Margaret A. Hamburg
Science 22 February 2002: 1425.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 22 February 2002: 1543.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 22 February 2002: 1545-1546.

News of the Week

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Universities Review Policies for Onsite Classified Research

David Malakoff
Science 22 February 2002: 1438-1439.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
More Science and a Carrot, Not a Stick

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 February 2002: 1439.
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ANIMAL WELFARE:
Senate Says No to New Rodent Rules

David Malakoff
Science 22 February 2002: 1439-1441.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Longtime Rivalry Ends in Collaboration

Jon Cohen
Science 22 February 2002: 1441-1442.
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MICROBIAL GENOMICS
TIGR Begins Assault on the Anthrax Genome

Martin Enserink
Science 22 February 2002: 1442-1443.
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CLONING:
Carbon-Copy Clone Is the Real Thing

Constance Holden
Science 22 February 2002: 1443-1444.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Obstacle for Promising Cancer Therapy

Jean Marx
Science 22 February 2002: 1444.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Weight of the World on Microbes' Shoulders

Jennifer Couzin
Science 22 February 2002: 1444-1445.
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MASS EXTINCTIONS:
No 'Darkness at Noon' to Do In the Dinosaurs?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 February 2002: 1445-1447.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY:
New Test Could Speed Bioweapon Detection

Robert F. Service
Science 22 February 2002: 1447.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASTRONOMY:
Glimpsing the Post-Hubble Universe

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 February 2002: 1448-1451.
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ASTRONOMY:
NGST Aims for Big Advance by Going Back in Time

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 February 2002: 1449.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Hot New Camera--and a Chilly Revival

Robert Irion
Science 22 February 2002: 1450.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
How Neurons Know That It's C-c-c-c-cold Outside

Caroline Seydel
Science 22 February 2002: 1451-1452.
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ASTRONOMY:
The Tumultuous Teens of Supernova 1987A

Robert Irion
Science 22 February 2002: 1452-1453.
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ECOLOGY:
Disciplines Team Up to Take the Pulse of Tampa Bay

Susan Ladika
Science 22 February 2002: 1455.
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SEISMOLOGY:
Working Up to the Next Big One

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 February 2002: 1456.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ANNUAL MEETING:
Human Gene Count on the Rise

Ben Shouse
Science 22 February 2002: 1457.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ANNUAL MEETING:
A Whale of a Chain Reaction

Jay Withgott
Science 22 February 2002: 1457.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 22 February 2002: 1464.
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 Allaying the Threat of Biological Weapons

Rodney W. Nichols; and Sir Brian Heap
Science 22 February 2002: 1464.
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 Studies of Dietary Fat and Heart Disease

Uffe Ravnskov, Christian Allen, Dale Atrens, Mary G. Enig, Barry Groves, Joel M. Kauffman, Rolf Kroneld, Paul J. Rosch, Ray Rosenman, Lars Werkö, Jørgen Vesti Nielsen, Jan Wilske, and Nicolai Worm
Science 22 February 2002: 1464-1465.
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 A Case of Misinterpretation

Philip Kitcher
Science 22 February 2002: 1466.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 22 February 2002: 1466.
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Books et al.

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Fine Battlefield Reporting, But It's Time to Stop the War Metaphor

Tony McMichael
Science 22 February 2002: 1469.
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ENERGY RESOURCES:
Locating the Summit of the Oil Peak

Ronald R. Charpentier
Science 22 February 2002: 1470.
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 Browsings

Science 22 February 2002: 1470.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Is Safe Mail Worth the Price?

H. Keith Florig
Science 22 February 2002: 1467-1468.
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Perspectives

RETROSPECTIVE: Scientist, Mentor, Colleague, and Friend -Eleanore Butz (1909-2002)

The Editors and Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
Science 22 February 2002: 1463.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
TRK Makes the Retrograde

Freda D. Miller and David R. Kaplan
Science 22 February 2002: 1471-1473.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Enhanced: Cycles, Cycles Everywhere

Thomas J. Crowley
Science 22 February 2002: 1473-1474.
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ECOLOGY:
Sizing Up the Shape of Life

M. Scot Zens and Campbell O. Webb
Science 22 February 2002: 1475-1476.
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COSMOLOGY:
Tales of Singularities

G. W. Gibbons and E. P. S. Shellard
Science 22 February 2002: 1476-1477.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
The Immunological Synapse--a Multitasking System

P. Anton van der Merwe and Simon J. Davis
Science 22 February 2002: 1479-1480.
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ENZYMOLOGY:
A Moving Story

Joseph J. Falke
Science 22 February 2002: 1480-1481.
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Review

Plants Compared to Animals: The Broadest Comparative Study of Development

Elliot M. Meyerowitz
Science 22 February 2002: 1482-1485.
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Brevia

 Extracellular DNA Required for Bacterial Biofilm Formation

Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Tim Tolker-Nielsen, Paula C. Ragas, and John S. Mattick
Science 22 February 2002: 1487.
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Research Articles

Instability of Glacial Climate in a Model of the Ocean- Atmosphere-Cryosphere System

Andreas Schmittner, Masakazu Yoshimori, and Andrew J. Weaver
Science 22 February 2002: 1489-1493.
Published online 31 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066174] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Loss of Sex Discrimination and Male-Male Aggression in Mice Deficient for TRP2

Lisa Stowers, Timothy E. Holy, Markus Meister, Catherine Dulac, and Georgy Koentges
Science 22 February 2002: 1493-1500.
Published online 31 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069259] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

A Rational Chemical Synthesis of C₆₀

Lawrence T. Scott, Margaret M. Boorum, Brandon J. McMahon, Stefan Hagen, James Mack, Jarred Blank, Hermann Wegner, and Armin de Meijere
Science 22 February 2002: 1500-1503.
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Array-Based Electrical Detection of DNA with Nanoparticle Probes

So-Jung Park, T. Andrew Taton, and Chad A. Mirkin
Science 22 February 2002: 1503-1506.
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Efficient Near-Infrared Polymer Nanocrystal Light-Emitting Diodes

Nir Tessler, Vlad Medvedev, Miri Kazes, ShiHai Kan, and Uri Banin
Science 22 February 2002: 1506-1508.
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Otolith ¹⁸O Record of Mid-Holocene Sea Surface Temperatures in Peru

C. Fred T. Andrus, Douglas E. Crowe, Daniel H. Sandweiss, Elizabeth J. Reitz, and Christopher S. Romanek
Science 22 February 2002: 1508-1511.
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Abrupt Decrease in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Salinity at End of Little Ice Age

Erica J. Hendy, Michael K. Gagan, Chantal A. Alibert, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Janice M. Lough, and Peter J. Isdale
Science 22 February 2002: 1511-1514.
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Microbial Activity at Gigapascal Pressures

Anurag Sharma, James H. Scott, George D. Cody, Marilyn L. Fogel, Robert M. Hazen, Russell J. Hemley, and Wesley T. Huntress
Science 22 February 2002: 1514-1516.
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Global Allocation Rules for Patterns of Biomass Partitioning in Seed Plants

Brian J. Enquist and Karl J. Niklas
Science 22 February 2002: 1517-1520.
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Enzyme Dynamics During Catalysis

Elan Zohar Eisenmesser, Daryl A. Bosco, Mikael Akke, and Dorothee Kern
Science 22 February 2002: 1520-1523.
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Role of Nucleoporin Induction in Releasing an mRNA Nuclear Export Block

Jost Enninga, David E. Levy, Günter Blobel, and Beatriz M. A. Fontoura
Science 22 February 2002: 1523-1525.
Published online 24 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1067861] (in Science Express Reports)
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Effect of p53 Status on Tumor Response to Antiangiogenic Therapy

Joanne L. Yu, Janusz W. Rak, Brenda L. Coomber, Daniel J. Hicklin, and Robert S. Kerbel
Science 22 February 2002: 1526-1528.
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Transcriptional Regulation of Cortical Neuron Migration by POU Domain Factors

Robert J. McEvilly, Marcela Ortiz de Diaz, Marcus D. Schonemann, Farideh Hooshmand, and Michael G. Rosenfeld
Science 22 February 2002: 1528-1532.
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Functional MRI of Macaque Monkeys Performing a Cognitive Set-Shifting Task

Kiyoshi Nakahara, Toshihiro Hayashi, Seiki Konishi, and Yasushi Miyashita
Science 22 February 2002: 1532-1536.
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Retrograde Support of Neuronal Survival Without Retrograde Transport of Nerve Growth Factor

Bronwyn L. MacInnis and Robert B. Campenot
Science 22 February 2002: 1536-1539.
Published online 17 January 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064913] (in Science Express Reports)
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T Cell Receptor Signaling Precedes Immunological Synapse Formation

Kyeong-Hee Lee, Amy D. Holdorf, Michael L. Dustin, Andrew C. Chan, Paul M. Allen, and Andrey S. Shaw
Science 22 February 2002: 1539-1542.
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Technical Comments

 The Problematic Rise of Archean Oxygen

Kenneth M. Towe, David Catling, Kevin Zahnle, and Christopher McKay
Science 22 February 2002: 1419.
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