This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The International Space Station at Risk

Laurence R. Young
Science 19 April 2002: 429.
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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 19 April 2002: 561-563.

News of the Week

CONSERVATION SCIENCE:
Caribou Study Fuels Debate on Drilling in Arctic Refuge

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 April 2002: 444-445.
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ARCTIC DRILLING:
A Modest Drop in a Big Bucket

Richard A. Kerr
Science 19 April 2002: 444.
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ENTOMOLOGY:
New Insect Order Speaks to Life's Diversity

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 19 April 2002: 445-447.
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AMPHIBIAN DECLINE:
Ubiquitous Herbicide Emasculates Frogs

Jay Withgott
Science 19 April 2002: 447-448.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Beijing U. Issues First-Ever Rules

Yimin Ding
Science 19 April 2002: 448.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Australia Probes Kidney Researcher

Leigh Dayton
Science 19 April 2002: 449.
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CHEMISTRY:
To Net Big Molecules, Widen the Mesh

Robert F. Service
Science 19 April 2002: 449-451.
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PARKINSON'S DISEASE:
Coincidence or Connection?

Richard Stone
Science 19 April 2002: 451-452.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH:
National Tracking Plan Picks Up Speed

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 19 April 2002: 452-453.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Dexter to Step Down at Wellcome Trust

Melissa Mertl
Science 19 April 2002: 453.
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UNITED KINGDOM:
Hard Sciences in Terminal Decline?

Kirstie Urquhart
Science 19 April 2002: 453.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GLACIAL RESEARCH:
Melting Glaciers Release Ancient Relics

Kevin Krajick
Science 19 April 2002: 454-456.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Gently Soothing a Savage Immune System

Jennifer Couzin
Science 19 April 2002: 456-458.
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DANIEL PAULY PROFILE:
Going to the Edge to Protect the Sea

David Malakoff
Science 19 April 2002: 458-461.
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DANIEL PAULY PROFILE:
Science Helps Pew Push Its Oceans Agenda

David Malakoff
Science 19 April 2002: 459.
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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Science Invades the Magic Kingdom

Robert F. Service
Science 19 April 2002: 462-463.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Is Ocean Fertilization Credible and Creditable?

Kenneth S. Johnson, David M. Karl;, S. W. Chisholm, P. G. Falkowski, and J. J. Cullen
Science 19 April 2002: 467-468.
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 Rock Art Revisited

Jill Bullington and Steven R. Leigh
Science 19 April 2002: 468.
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 Beauty, Biological Weapons, and Botox

Arnold William Klein
Science 19 April 2002: 468-469.
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 Prospects for an AIDS Vaccine

Earl L. Parr and Margaret B. Parr
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Childless Father of Eugenics

W. F. Bynum
Science 19 April 2002: 472.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
How Molecules Make Organisms Work

Pat Willmer
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:
A New "Industrial Ecology"

Rod Coombs and Luke Georghiou
Science 19 April 2002: 471.
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Perspectives

BIOMEDICINE:
Back to an Aspirin a Day?

John R. Vane
Science 19 April 2002: 474-475.
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GEOLOGY:
Enhanced: Osmium Remembers

Richard W. Carlson
Science 19 April 2002: 475-477.
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PHASE OF MATTER:
The Elusive Liquid-Solid Interface

Erik Johnson
Science 19 April 2002: 477-478.
Published online 21 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1070400] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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COMPUTING:
Successes and Challenges

John H. Reif
Science 19 April 2002: 478-479.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Proteasome Parts at Gene Promoters

Søren Ottosen, Francisco J. Herrera, and Steven J. Triezenberg
Science 19 April 2002: 479-481.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
T Before NK

H. Robson MacDonald
Science 19 April 2002: 481-482.
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PARASITOLOGY:
When the Host Is Smarter Than the Parasite

Daniel E. Goldberg
Science 19 April 2002: 482-483.
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CLIMATE MODELING:
How Accurate Are Climate Simulations?

Thomas M. Smith, Thomas R. Karl, and Richard W. Reynolds
Science 19 April 2002: 483-484.
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Tech.Sight

A Technique Whose Time Has Come

Nigel J. Walker
Science 19 April 2002: 557-559.
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Reviews

Seismic Anisotropy: Tracing Plate Dynamics in the Mantle

Jeffrey Park and Vadim Levin
Science 19 April 2002: 485-489.
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Allergy, Parasites, and the Hygiene Hypothesis

Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Peter G. Kremsner, and Ronald van Ree
Science 19 April 2002: 490-494.
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Brevia

 Murine Leukemia Induced by Retroviral Gene Marking

Zhixiong Li, Jochen Düllmann, Bernd Schiedlmeier, Manfred Schmidt, Christof von Kalle, Johann Meyer, Martin Forster, Carol Stocking, Anke Wahlers, Oliver Frank, Wolfram Ostertag, Klaus Kühlcke, Hans-Georg Eckert, Boris Fehse, and Christopher Baum
Science 19 April 2002: 497.
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Research Articles

Solution of a 20-Variable 3-SAT Problem on a DNA Computer

Ravinderjit S. Braich, Nickolas Chelyapov, Cliff Johnson, Paul W. K. Rothemund, and Leonard Adleman
Science 19 April 2002: 499-502.
Published online 14 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069528] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Multicolor and Electron Microscopic Imaging of Connexin Trafficking

Guido Gaietta, Thomas J. Deerinck, Stephen R. Adams, James Bouwer, Oded Tour, Dale W. Laird, Gina E. Sosinsky, Roger Y. Tsien, and Mark H. Ellisman
Science 19 April 2002: 503-507.
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Reports

Ordering in a Fluid Inert Gas Confined by Flat Surfaces

Stephen E. Donnelly, Robert C. Birtcher, Charles W. Allen, Ian Morrison, Kazuo Furuya, Minghui Song, Kazutaka Mitsuishi, and Ulrich Dahmen
Science 19 April 2002: 507-510.
Published online 21 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1068521] (in Science Express Reports)
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External Reflection from Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirror Fibers

Shandon D. Hart, Garry R. Maskaly, Burak Temelkuran, Peter H. Prideaux, John D. Joannopoulos, and Yoel Fink
Science 19 April 2002: 510-513.
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Superplumes from the Core-Mantle Boundary to the Lithosphere: Implications for Heat Flux

Barbara Romanowicz and Yuancheng Gung
Science 19 April 2002: 513-516.
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Evidence for an Ancient Osmium Isotopic Reservoir in Earth

Anders Meibom and Robert Frei
Science 19 April 2002: 516-518.
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Ultrapermeable, Reverse-Selective Nanocomposite Membranes

T. C. Merkel, B. D. Freeman, R. J. Spontak, Z. He, I. Pinnau, P. Meakin, and A. J. Hill
Science 19 April 2002: 519-522.
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The Cause of Carbon Isotope Minimum Events on Glacial Terminations

Howard J. Spero and David W. Lea
Science 19 April 2002: 522-525.
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Control of the Selectivity of the Aquaporin Water Channel Family by Global Orientational Tuning

Emad Tajkhorshid, Peter Nollert, Morten Ø. Jensen, Larry J. W. Miercke, Joseph O'Connell, Robert M. Stroud, and Klaus Schulten
Science 19 April 2002: 525-530.
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DNA Repair Pathway Stimulated by the Forkhead Transcription Factor FOXO3a Through the Gadd45 Protein

Hien Tran, Anne Brunet, Jill M. Grenier, Sandeep R. Datta, Albert J. Fornace, Jr., Peter S. DiStefano, Lillian W. Chiang, and Michael E. Greenberg
Science 19 April 2002: 530-534.
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Local Actin Polymerization and Dynamin Recruitment in SV40-Induced Internalization of Caveolae

Lucas Pelkmans, Daniel Püntener, and Ari Helenius
Science 19 April 2002: 535-539.
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Role of Prostacyclin in the Cardiovascular Response to Thromboxane A₂

Yan Cheng, Sandra C. Austin, Bianca Rocca, Beverly H. Koller, Thomas M. Coffman, Tilo Grosser, John A. Lawson, and Garret A. FitzGerald
Science 19 April 2002: 539-541.
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Optical Projection Tomography as a Tool for 3D Microscopy and Gene Expression Studies

James Sharpe, Ulf Ahlgren, Paul Perry, Bill Hill, Allyson Ross, Jacob Hecksher-Sørensen, Richard Baldock, and Duncan Davidson
Science 19 April 2002: 541-545.
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Divergent Regulation of Dihydrofolate Reductase Between Malaria Parasite and Human Host

Kai Zhang and Pradipsinh K. Rathod
Science 19 April 2002: 545-547.
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Recruitment of a 19S Proteasome Subcomplex to an Activated Promoter

Fernando Gonzalez, Agnes Delahodde, Thomas Kodadek, and Stephen Albert Johnston
Science 19 April 2002: 548-550.
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A System for Stable Expression of Short Interfering RNAs in Mammalian Cells

Thijn R. Brummelkamp, René Bernards, and Reuven Agami
Science 19 April 2002: 550-553.
Published online 21 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1068999] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Thymic Precursor to the NK T Cell Lineage

Kamel Benlagha, Tim Kyin, Andrew Beavis, Luc Teyton, and Albert Bendelac
Science 19 April 2002: 553-555.
Published online 14 March 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069017] (in Science Express Reports)
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