This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
John Gardner: A Salute

Donald Kennedy
Science 22 March 2002: 2177.
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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 22 March 2002: 2287-2289.

News of the Week

HUMAN RIGHTS:
Statistical Analysis Provides Key Links in Milosevic Trial

Richard Stone
Science 22 March 2002: 2188-2189.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Dam Threatens Iraqi Ancient Sites

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 March 2002: 2189-2191.
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CASPIAN SEA:
Scientists Deplore OK for Sturgeon Catch

Richard Stone
Science 22 March 2002: 2191.
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WOMEN IN ACADEMIA:
Engineers Marginalized, MIT Report Concludes

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 March 2002: 2192.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
African Skull Points to One Human Ancestor

Ann Gibbons
Science 22 March 2002: 2192-2193.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Good, the Bad, and the Anterior Cingulate

Greg Miller
Science 22 March 2002: 2193-2194.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Distant Galaxy Heralds End of Dark Ages

Andrew Watson
Science 22 March 2002: 2194-2195.
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CHEMISTRY:
Whisper of Magnetism Tells Molecules Apart

Robert F. Service
Science 22 March 2002: 2195.
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FORENSIC SCIENCE:
Judge Reverses Decision on Fingerprint Evidence

Adrian Cho
Science 22 March 2002: 2195-2197.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Ancient DNA Untangles Evolutionary Paths

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 March 2002: 2197.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CANCER THERAPY:
Setbacks for Endostatin

Eliot Marshall
Science 22 March 2002: 2198-2199.
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AGRICULTURE:
Reseeding Project Offers Aid to Strapped Afghani Farmers

Daniel Charles
Science 22 March 2002: 2200.
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INVASIVE SPECIES:
California Tries to Rub Out the Monster of the Lagoon

Jay Withgott
Science 22 March 2002: 2201-2202.
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U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS:
New Annual Survey Brings Census Into 21st Century

Constance Holden
Science 22 March 2002: 2202-2203.
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ASTRONOMY:
Unusual Venture Helps Make the Sky Affordable

Daniel Clery
Science 22 March 2002: 2203-2205.
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BIOENGINEERING:
Working Outside the Protein-Synthesis Rules

Josh Gewolb
Science 22 March 2002: 2205-2207.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Heisenberg and Bohr--Another View

Klaus Gottstein and Adrian Cho
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 Survey of Foreign Recipients of U.S. Ph.D.'s

Paula E. Stephan, Grant C. Black, James D. Adams, and Sharon G. Levin
Science 22 March 2002: 2211-2212.
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 Letter of Appreciation

AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
Science 22 March 2002: 2212.
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 Cholesterol's Role in Synapse Formation

Alexei R. Koudinov and Natalia V. Koudinova
Science 22 March 2002: 2213.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GENOME EVOLUTION:
Keeping Pace with Opportunistic DNA

Margaret G. Kidwell
Science 22 March 2002: 2219-2220.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Bridging the Genotype-Phenotype Gap

Stig W. Omholt
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

SPECIAL ESSAY:
The Seven Pillars of Life

Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
Science 22 March 2002: 2215-2216.
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Policy Forum

NUCLEAR RESEARCH:
The Past and Future of University Research Reactors

Kenneth C. Rogers
Science 22 March 2002: 2217-2218.
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Perspectives

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Skiing Toward Nonstop mRNA Decay

Lynne E. Maquat
Science 22 March 2002: 2221-2222.
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS:
Steric and Solvent Effects in Ionic Reactions

James M. Farrar
Science 22 March 2002: 2222-2223.
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COSMOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Beginning of Time

Craig J. Hogan
Science 22 March 2002: 2223-2225.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
The True Colors of Cuprates

J. E. Hirsch
Science 22 March 2002: 2226-2227.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Blowing Hot and Cold

Keith R. Briffa and Timothy J. Osborn
Science 22 March 2002: 2227-2228.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Hot and Cold TRP Ion Channels

David E. Clapham
Science 22 March 2002: 2228-2229.
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ECOLOGY:
Of Predators, Prey, and Power Laws

Pablo A. Marquet
Science 22 March 2002: 2229-2230.
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Review

Pituitary Development: Regulatory Codes in Mammalian Organogenesis

Kathleen M. Scully and Michael G. Rosenfeld
Science 22 March 2002: 2231-2235.
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Brevia

 Self-Assembled Magnetic Matrices for DNA Separation Chips

Patrick S. Doyle, Jérôme Bibette, Aurélien Bancaud, and Jean-Louis Viovy
Science 22 March 2002: 2237.
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Reports

Superconductivity-Induced Transfer of In-Plane Spectral Weight in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊

H. J. A. Molegraaf, C. Presura, D. van der Marel, P. H. Kes, and M. Li
Science 22 March 2002: 2239-2241.
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Noble Gas-Actinide Compounds: Complexation of the CUO Molecule by Ar, Kr, and Xe Atoms in Noble Gas Matrices

Jun Li, Bruce E. Bursten, Binyong Liang, and Lester Andrews
Science 22 March 2002: 2242-2245.
Published online 28 February 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069342] (in Science Express Reports)
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Steric Effects and Solvent Effects in Ionic Reactions

Colleen K. Regan, Stephen L. Craig, and John I. Brauman
Science 22 March 2002: 2245-2247.
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Liquid-State NMR and Scalar Couplings in Microtesla Magnetic Fields

Robert McDermott, Andreas H. Trabesinger, Michael Mück, Erwin L. Hahn, Alexander Pines, and John Clarke
Science 22 March 2002: 2247-2249.
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Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability

Jan Esper, Edward R. Cook, and Fritz H. Schweingruber
Science 22 March 2002: 2250-2253.
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Coda Wave Interferometry for Estimating Nonlinear Behavior in Seismic Velocity

Roel Snieder, Alexandre Grêt, Huub Douma, and John Scales
Science 22 March 2002: 2253-2255.
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Adaptive Immune Response of V2V2⁺ T Cells During Mycobacterial Infections

Yun Shen, Dejiang Zhou, Liyou Qiu, Xioamin Lai, Meredith Simon, Ling Shen, Zhongchen Kou, Qifan Wang, Liming Jiang, Jim Estep, Robert Hunt, Michelle Clagett, Prabhat K. Sehgal, Yunyaun Li, Xuejun Zeng, Craig T. Morita, Michael B. Brenner, Norman L. Letvin, and Zheng W. Chen
Science 22 March 2002: 2255-2258.
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An mRNA Surveillance Mechanism That Eliminates Transcripts Lacking Termination Codons

Pamela A. Frischmeyer, Ambro van Hoof, Kathryn O'Donnell, Anthony L. Guerrerio, Roy Parker, and Harry C. Dietz
Science 22 March 2002: 2258-2261.
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Exosome-Mediated Recognition and Degradation of mRNAs Lacking a Termination Codon

Ambro van Hoof, Pamela A. Frischmeyer, Harry C. Dietz, and Roy Parker
Science 22 March 2002: 2262-2264.
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Brain to Plasma Amyloid- Efflux: a Measure of Brain Amyloid Burden in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Ronald B. DeMattos, Kelly R. Bales, David J. Cummins, Steven M. Paul, and David M. Holtzman
Science 22 March 2002: 2264-2267.
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Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears

I. Barnes, P. Matheus, B. Shapiro, D. Jensen, and A. Cooper
Science 22 March 2002: 2267-2270.
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Rates of Evolution in Ancient DNA from Adélie Penguins

D. M. Lambert, P. A. Ritchie, C. D. Millar, B. Holland, A. J. Drummond, and C. Baroni
Science 22 March 2002: 2270-2273.
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A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density

Chris Carbone and John L. Gittleman
Science 22 March 2002: 2273-2276.
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Neuronal Calcium Sensor 1 and Activity-Dependent Facilitation of P/Q-Type Calcium Currents at Presynaptic Nerve Terminals

Tetsuhiro Tsujimoto, Andreas Jeromin, Naoto Saitoh, John C. Roder, and Tomoyuki Takahashi
Science 22 March 2002: 2276-2279.
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The Medial Frontal Cortex and the Rapid Processing of Monetary Gains and Losses

William J. Gehring and Adrian R. Willoughby
Science 22 March 2002: 2279-2282.
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Control of Synaptic Strength by Glial TNF

Eric C. Beattie, David Stellwagen, Wade Morishita, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan, Byeong Keun Ha, Mark Von Zastrow, Michael S. Beattie, and Robert C. Malenka
Science 22 March 2002: 2282-2285.
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