The Rice Genome

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Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Importance of Rice

Donald Kennedy
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Highlights of the recent literature.
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Best of the Web in science.
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 Information for Contributors

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News of the Week

NIH DIRECTOR-DESIGNATE:
Money, Mission, Management Top Zerhouni's Agenda

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 5 April 2002: 24-25.
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SMALLPOX VACCINES:
New Cache Eases Shortage Worries

Martin Enserink
Science 5 April 2002: 25-27.
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IMPACT HAZARD:
Celestial Billiards Threaten Hit in 2880

Richard A. Kerr
Science 5 April 2002: 27.
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BIOETHICS:
U.S. Questions Harvard Research in China

Andrew Lawler
Science 5 April 2002: 28.
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PROTEIN STRUCTURE:
Harmless Proteins Twist Into Troublemakers

Jennifer Couzin
Science 5 April 2002: 28-29.
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:
Last Year's Food Guides This Year's Brood

Jay Withgott
Science 5 April 2002: 29-31.
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PATENT LAW:
Judge Casts Doubt on Scientist's Account

David Malakoff
Science 5 April 2002: 31.
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MIDDLE EAST:
Science Foundation Sets Priority Areas

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 5 April 2002: 31.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

THE RICE GENOME:
Rice: Boiled Down to Bare Essentials

Dennis Normile and Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 5 April 2002: 32-36.
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THE RICE GENOME:
A Deal for the Rice Genome

Eliot Marshall
Science 5 April 2002: 34.
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THE RICE GENOME:
Beijing Genomics Institute: From Standing Start to Sequencing Superpower

Dennis Normile
Science 5 April 2002: 36-39.
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MATHEMATICS:
Erdös's Hard-to-Win Prizes Still Draw Bounty Hunters

Charles Seife
Science 5 April 2002: 39-40.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Closing In on the Cause of the Cosmos's Biggest Blasts

Govert Schilling
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Why Finishing the Rice Genome Matters

Jan Leach, Susan McCouch, Tom Slezak, Takuji Sasaki, and Sue Wessler
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 Collaborating on the Rice Genome

Stephen A. Goff
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 Bowties and Brainiacs at the AAAS Meeting

David Helvarg
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 Regulating Natural Health Products

Joyce C. Lashof, Sheldon Margen, John E. Swartzberg;, and Ira Herskowitz
Science 5 April 2002: 46-47.
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 McClintock and Marriage

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PHYSIOLOGY:
The Race to Understand the Outlier

Bernd Heinrich
Science 5 April 2002: 51.
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EDUCATION:
Making the University of California

Roger L. Geiger
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
"The Most Versatile Physicist of His Generation"

Mary Jo Nye
Science 5 April 2002: 49-50.
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Perspectives

THE RICE GENOME:
The Cereal of the World's Poor Takes Center Stage

Ronald P. Cantrell and Timothy G. Reeves
Science 5 April 2002: 53.
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THE RICE GENOME:
World Poverty and Hunger--the Challenge for Science

Ismail Serageldin
Science 5 April 2002: 54-58.
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THE RICE GENOME:
The Most Precious Things Are Not Jade and Pearls...

Pamela Ronald and Hei Leung
Science 5 April 2002: 58-59.
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THE RICE GENOME:
Opening the Door to Comparative Plant Biology

Jeffrey Bennetzen
Science 5 April 2002: 60-63.
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SOLAR PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Order Amidst Turbulence

Juri Toomre
Science 5 April 2002: 64-65.
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COLLOIDAL SYSTEMS:
Playing Tricks with Designer "Atoms"

Daan Frenkel
Science 5 April 2002: 65-66.
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POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS:
Grain Boundaries and Dislocations

Helena Van Swygenhoven
Science 5 April 2002: 66-67.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Trans-Atlantic Climate Connections

Paul A. Baker
Science 5 April 2002: 67-68.
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Reviews

Breeding Together: Kin Selection and Mutualism in Cooperative Vertebrates

Tim Clutton-Brock
Science 5 April 2002: 69-72.
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Cooperation and Competition Between Relatives

Stuart A. West, Ido Pen, and Ashleigh S. Griffin
Science 5 April 2002: 72-75.
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Brevia

 Asteroid Hazard Mitigation Using the Yarkovsky Effect

Joseph N. Spitale
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Research Articles

A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica)

Jun Yu, Songnian Hu, Jun Wang, Gane Ka-Shu Wong, Songgang Li, Bin Liu, Yajun Deng, Li Dai, Yan Zhou, Xiuqing Zhang, Mengliang Cao, Jing Liu, Jiandong Sun, Jiabin Tang, Yanjiong Chen, Xiaobing Huang, Wei Lin, Chen Ye, Wei Tong, Lijuan Cong, Jianing Geng, Yujun Han, Lin Li, Wei Li, Guangqiang Hu, Xiangang Huang, Wenjie Li, Jian Li, Zhanwei Liu, Long Li, Jianping Liu, Qiuhui Qi, Jinsong Liu, Li Li, Tao Li, Xuegang Wang, Hong Lu, Tingting Wu, Miao Zhu, Peixiang Ni, Hua Han, Wei Dong, Xiaoyu Ren, Xiaoli Feng, Peng Cui, Xianran Li, Hao Wang, Xin Xu, Wenxue Zhai, Zhao Xu, Jinsong Zhang, Sijie He, Jianguo Zhang, Jichen Xu, Kunlin Zhang, Xianwu Zheng, Jianhai Dong, Wanyong Zeng, Lin Tao, Jia Ye, Jun Tan, Xide Ren, Xuewei Chen, Jun He, Daofeng Liu, Wei Tian, Chaoguang Tian, Hongai Xia, Qiyu Bao, Gang Li, Hui Gao, Ting Cao, Juan Wang, Wenming Zhao, Ping Li, Wei Chen, Xudong Wang, Yong Zhang, Jianfei Hu, Jing Wang, Song Liu, Jian Yang, Guangyu Zhang, Yuqing Xiong, Zhijie Li, Long Mao, Chengshu Zhou, Zhen Zhu, Runsheng Chen, Bailin Hao, Weimou Zheng, Shouyi Chen, Wei Guo, Guojie Li, Siqi Liu, Ming Tao, Jian Wang, Lihuang Zhu, Longping Yuan, and Huanming Yang
Science 5 April 2002: 79-92.
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A Draft Sequence of the Rice Genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp. japonica)

Stephen A. Goff, Darrell Ricke, Tien-Hung Lan, Gernot Presting, Ronglin Wang, Molly Dunn, Jane Glazebrook, Allen Sessions, Paul Oeller, Hemant Varma, David Hadley, Don Hutchison, Chris Martin, Fumiaki Katagiri, B. Markus Lange, Todd Moughamer, Yu Xia, Paul Budworth, Jingping Zhong, Trini Miguel, Uta Paszkowski, Shiping Zhang, Michelle Colbert, Wei-lin Sun, Lili Chen, Bret Cooper, Sylvia Park, Todd Charles Wood, Long Mao, Peter Quail, Rod Wing, Ralph Dean, Yeisoo Yu, Andrey Zharkikh, Richard Shen, Sudhir Sahasrabudhe, Alun Thomas, Rob Cannings, Alexander Gutin, Dmitry Pruss, Julia Reid, Sean Tavtigian, Jeff Mitchell, Glenn Eldredge, Terri Scholl, Rose Mary Miller, Satish Bhatnagar, Nils Adey, Todd Rubano, Nadeem Tusneem, Rosann Robinson, Jane Feldhaus, Teresita Macalma, Arnold Oliphant, and Steven Briggs
Science 5 April 2002: 92-100.
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Reports

Helioseismic Measurement of Solar Torsional Oscillations

S. V. Vorontsov, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, J. Schou, V. N. Strakhov, and M. J. Thompson
Science 5 April 2002: 101-103.
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Multiple Glassy States in a Simple Model System

K. N. Pham, A. M. Puertas, J. Bergenholtz, S. U. Egelhaaf, A. Moussaïd, P. N. Pusey, A. B. Schofield, M. E. Cates, M. Fuchs, and W. C. K. Poon
Science 5 April 2002: 104-106.
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Layer-by-Layer Growth of Binary Colloidal Crystals

Krassimir P. Velikov, Christina G. Christova, Roel P. A. Dullens, and Alfons van Blaaderen
Science 5 April 2002: 106-109.
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Structure of Haloform Intercalated C₆₀ and Its Influence on Superconductive Properties

Robert E. Dinnebier, Olle Gunnarsson, Holger Brumm, Erik Koch, Peter W. Stephens, Ashfia Huq, and Martin Jansen
Science 5 April 2002: 109-113.
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A High-Resolution Paleoclimate Record Spanning the Past 25,000 Years in Southern East Africa

Thomas C. Johnson, Erik T. Brown, James McManus, Sylvia Barry, Philip Barker, and Françoise Gasse
Science 5 April 2002: 113-132.
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Asteroid 1950 DA's Encounter with Earth in 2880: Physical Limits of Collision Probability Prediction

J. D. Giorgini, S. J. Ostro, L. A. M. Benner, P. W. Chodas, S. R. Chesley, R. S. Hudson, M. C. Nolan, A. R. Klemola, E. M. Standish, R. F. Jurgens, R. Rose, A. B. Chamberlin, D. K. Yeomans, and J.-L. Margot
Science 5 April 2002: 132-136.
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Evidence for the Effect of Learning on Timing of Reproduction in Blue Tits

Fabrizio Grieco, Arie J. van Noordwijk, and Marcel E. Visser
Science 5 April 2002: 136-138.
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Bile Acid Secreted by Male Sea Lamprey That Acts as a Sex Pheromone

Weiming Li, Alexander P. Scott, Michael J. Siefkes, Honggao Yan, Qin Liu, Sang-Seon Yun, and Douglas A. Gage
Science 5 April 2002: 138-141.
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Functional Annotation of a Full-Length Arabidopsis cDNA Collection

Motoaki Seki, Mari Narusaka, Asako Kamiya, Junko Ishida, Masakazu Satou, Tetsuya Sakurai, Maiko Nakajima, Akiko Enju, Kenji Akiyama, Youko Oono, Masami Muramatsu, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Jun Kawai, Piero Carninci, Masayoshi Itoh, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Takahiro Arakawa, Kazuhiro Shibata, Akira Shinagawa, and Kazuo Shinozaki
Science 5 April 2002: 141-145.
Published online 21 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1071006] (in Science Express Reports)
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Conserved Structure for Single-Stranded Telomeric DNA Recognition

Rachel M. Mitton-Fry, Emily M. Anderson, Timothy R. Hughes, Victoria Lundblad, and Deborah S. Wuttke
Science 5 April 2002: 145-147.
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The Interaction of Alba, a Conserved Archaeal Chromatin Protein, with Sir2 and Its Regulation by Acetylation

Stephen D. Bell, Catherine H. Botting, Benjamin N. Wardleworth, Stephen P. Jackson, and Malcolm F. White
Science 5 April 2002: 148-151.
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Crystal Structure of the Extracellular Segment of Integrin V3 in Complex with an Arg-Gly-Asp Ligand

Jian-Ping Xiong, Thilo Stehle, Rongguang Zhang, Andrzej Joachimiak, Matthias Frech, Simon L. Goodman, and M. Amin Arnaout
Science 5 April 2002: 151-155.
Published online 7 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069040] (in Science Express Reports)
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Resolution of Lung Inflammation by CD44

Priit Teder, R. William Vandivier, Dianhua Jiang, Jiurong Liang, Lauren Cohn, Ellen Puré, Peter M. Henson, and Paul W. Noble
Science 5 April 2002: 155-158.
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Subnuclear Compartmentalization of Immunoglobulin Loci During Lymphocyte Development

Steven T. Kosak, Jane A. Skok, Kay L. Medina, Roy Riblet, Michelle M. Le Beau, Amanda G. Fisher, and Harinder Singh
Science 5 April 2002: 158-162.
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Technical Comments

 The California Current, Devils Hole, and Pleistocene Climate

Isaac J. Winograd, T. D. Herbert, J. D. Schuffert, D. Andreasen, L. Heusser, M. Lyle, A. Mix, A. C. Ravelo, L. D. Stott, and J. C. Herguera
Science 5 April 2002: 7.
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