This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 14 June 2002: 1925.
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Editorial:
A Cultural Change in UK Universities

Lord Sainsbury
Science 14 June 2002: 1929.
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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 14 June 2002: 2054-2056.

News of the Week

NATIONAL SECURITY:
Research Chiefs Hunt for Details in Proposal for New Department

Martin Enserink and Andrew Lawler
Science 14 June 2002: 1944-1945.
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AIR POLLUTION RISKS:
Software Glitch Threw Off Mortality Estimates

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 June 2002: 1945-1947.
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DOE WEAPONS LABS:
Livermore Keeps It All in the Family

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 June 2002: 1947-1948.
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SPINTRONICS:
Magnetic Gate Opens New Computing Path

Adrian Cho
Science 14 June 2002: 1948.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD:
TV Drama Sparks Scientific Backlash

Ben Shouse
Science 14 June 2002: 1948-1949.
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ECOLOGY:
A Coral by Any Other Name ...

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 June 2002: 1949-1950.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Millions Pledged for Afghan Restoration

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 June 2002: 1950-1951.
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EXOPLANETS:
'New Jupiter' Turns Up in Strange Company

Donald Goldsmith
Science 14 June 2002: 1951.
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ASTRONOMY:
Lucky Catch Identifies Disintegrating Cluster

Govert Schilling
Science 14 June 2002: 1951-1953.
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CLINICAL TRIALS:
Agency Wants to Stop Shopping for Best Deal

David Malakoff
Science 14 June 2002: 1953.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

FORT DETRICK:
On Biowarfare's Frontline

Martin Enserink
Science 14 June 2002: 1954-1956.
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CLAIRE FRASER PROFILE:
TIGR's Chief: Results Without the Roar

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 June 2002: 1957-1958.
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BRAZILIAN ECOSYSTEMS: HISTORY, MANAGEMENT, AND PRESERVATION:
South American Landscapes: Ancient and Modern

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 14 June 2002: 1959-1961.
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ASTRONOMY:
Hubble Gets New IR Eyes

Govert Schilling
Science 14 June 2002: 1961.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Of Mars Water, Old Cold, and Deep Talk

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 June 2002: 1962-1963.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 June 2002: 1967.
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 Muscle-Powered Mechanical Blood Pumps

Dennis R. Trumble, James A. Magovern;, Patrick M. McCarthy, and William A. Smith
Science 14 June 2002: 1967.
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 Did Sir Francis Galton Have a Sense of Humor?

Stephen Portnoy
Science 14 June 2002: 1967.
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 Human Embryos: Potential Humans?

Fritz Baumgartner; and Carl B. Feldbaum
Science 14 June 2002: 1967.
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 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production

Helmut Haberl, Fridolin Krausmann, Karl-Heinz Erb, Niels B. Schulz;, Stuart Rojstaczer, Shannon M. Sterling, and Nathan Moore
Science 14 June 2002: 1968-1969.
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 Fungal Diversity and Plant Roots

Fred Crowe; and Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
Science 14 June 2002: 1969.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PSYCHOLOGY:
We Don't Think the Way We Think We Think

James Kennedy
Science 14 June 2002: 1973.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Home Life at Down House

Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles
Science 14 June 2002: 1974.
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 Books Received

Science 14 June 2002: 1974.

Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Dangerous Climate Impacts and the Kyoto Protocol

Brian C. O'Neill and Michael Oppenheimer
Science 14 June 2002: 1971-1972.
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Perspectives

MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Orienting Ferroelectric Films

R. Ramesh and D. G. Schlom
Science 14 June 2002: 1975-1976.
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GENOMICS AND MICROBIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Microbial Forensics--"Cross-Examining Pathogens"

Craig A. Cummings and David A. Relman
Science 14 June 2002: 1976-1979.
Published online 9 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073125] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Can We Teach the Cerebellum New Tricks?

Eliot Hazeltine and Richard B. Ivry
Science 14 June 2002: 1979-1980.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Small Critters--Big Effects

André Morel and David Antoine
Science 14 June 2002: 1980-1982.
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ORIGIN OF LIFE:
Some Like It Hot, But Not the First Biomolecules

Jeffrey L. Bada and Antonio Lazcano
Science 14 June 2002: 1982-1983.
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EVOLUTION:
RETROSPECTIVE
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002)

Richard A. Fortey
Science 14 June 2002: 1984.
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Reviews

Flow and Storage in Groundwater Systems

William M. Alley, Richard W. Healy, James W. LaBaugh, and Thomas E. Reilly
Science 14 June 2002: 1985-1990.
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Toxic Proteins in Neurodegenerative Disease

J. Paul Taylor, John Hardy, and Kenneth H. Fischbeck
Science 14 June 2002: 1991-1995.
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Brevia

 Polymer Nanotubes by Wetting of Ordered Porous Templates

M. Steinhart, J. H. Wendorff, A. Greiner, R. B. Wehrspohn, K. Nielsch, J. Schilling, J. Choi, and U. Gösele
Science 14 June 2002: 1997.
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Research Article

Temporal Specificity in the Cortical Plasticity of Visual Space Representation

Yu-Xi Fu, Kaj Djupsund, Hongfeng Gao, Benjamin Hayden, Kai Shen, and Yang Dan
Science 14 June 2002: 1999-2003.
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Reports

Submicrometer Ferromagnetic NOT Gate and Shift Register

D. A. Allwood, Gang Xiong, M. D. Cooke, C. C. Faulkner, D. Atkinson, N. Vernier, and R. P. Cowburn
Science 14 June 2002: 2003-2006.
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Ferroelectric Bi_3.25La_0.75Ti₃O₁₂ Films of Uniform a-Axis Orientation on Silicon Substrates

Ho Nyung Lee, Dietrich Hesse, Nikolai Zakharov, and Ulrich Gösele
Science 14 June 2002: 2006-2009.
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Design and Control of Wave Propagation Patterns in Excitable Media

Tatsunari Sakurai, Eugene Mihaliuk, Florin Chirila, and Kenneth Showalter
Science 14 June 2002: 2009-2012.
Published online 2 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1071265] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Reversible Solid-State Crystalline Transformation in a Metal Phosphide Induced by Redox Chemistry

D. C. S. Souza, V. Pralong, A. J. Jacobson, and L. F. Nazar
Science 14 June 2002: 2012-2015.
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Co-Seismic Strike-Slip and Rupture Length Produced by the 2001 M_s 8.1 Central Kunlun Earthquake

Aiming Lin, Bihong Fu, Jianming Guo, Qingli Zeng, Guangming Dang, Wengui He, and Yue Zhao
Science 14 June 2002: 2015-2017.
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A 160,000-Year Record of Dune Development and Atmospheric Circulation in Southern Arabia

Frank Preusser, Dirk Radies, and Albert Matter
Science 14 June 2002: 2018-2020.
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Rapid Bottom Melting Widespread near Antarctic Ice Sheet Grounding Lines

Eric Rignot and Stanley S. Jacobs
Science 14 June 2002: 2020-2023.
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Hybridization and the Evolution of Reef Coral Diversity

Steven V. Vollmer and Stephen R. Palumbi
Science 14 June 2002: 2023-2025.
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RopGAP4-Dependent Rop GTPase Rheostat Control of Arabidopsis Oxygen Deprivation Tolerance

Airica Baxter-Burrell, Zhenbiao Yang, Patricia S. Springer, and Julia Bailey-Serres
Science 14 June 2002: 2026-2028.
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Comparative Genome Sequencing for Discovery of Novel Polymorphisms in Bacillus anthracis

Timothy D. Read, Steven L. Salzberg, Mihai Pop, Martin Shumway, Lowell Umayam, Lingxia Jiang, Erik Holtzapple, Joseph D. Busch, Kimothy L. Smith, James M. Schupp, Daniel Solomon, Paul Keim, and Claire M. Fraser
Science 14 June 2002: 2028-2033.
Published online 9 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1071837] (in Science Express Reports)
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AID Enzyme-Induced Hypermutation in an Actively Transcribed Gene in Fibroblasts

Kiyotsugu Yoshikawa, Il-mi Okazaki, Tomonori Eto, Kazuo Kinoshita, Masamichi Muramatsu, Hitoshi Nagaoka, and Tasuku Honjo
Science 14 June 2002: 2033-2036.
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Induction of T Helper Type 2 Immunity by a Point Mutation in the LAT Adaptor

Enrique Aguado, Sylvie Richelme, Selene Nuñez-Cruz, Arkadiusz Miazek, Anne-Marie Mura, Mireille Richelme, Xiao-Jun Guo, Danielle Sainty, Hai-Tao He, Bernard Malissen, and Marie Malissen
Science 14 June 2002: 2036-2040.
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A LAT Mutation That Inhibits T Cell Development Yet Induces Lymphoproliferation

Connie L. Sommers, Cheung-Seog Park, Jan Lee, Chiguang Feng, Claudette L. Fuller, Alexander Grinberg, Jay A. Hildebrand, Emanuela Lacaná, Rashmi K. Menon, Elizabeth W. Shores, Lawrence E. Samelson, and Paul E. Love
Science 14 June 2002: 2040-2043.
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Cerebellum Activation Associated with Performance Change but Not Motor Learning

R. D. Seidler, A. Purushotham, S.-G. Kim, K. Uurbil, D. Willingham, and J. Ashe
Science 14 June 2002: 2043-2046.
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A Heat-Sensitive TRP Channel Expressed in Keratinocytes

Andrea M. Peier, Alison J. Reeve, David A. Andersson, Aziz Moqrich, Taryn J. Earley, Anne C. Hergarden, Gina M. Story, Sian Colley, John B. Hogenesch, Peter McIntyre, Stuart Bevan, and Ardem Patapoutian
Science 14 June 2002: 2046-2049.
Published online 16 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073140] (in Science Express Reports)
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Correlated Bursts of Activity in the Neonatal Hippocampus in Vivo

Xavier Leinekugel, Rustem Khazipov, Robert Cannon, Hajime Hirase, Yehezkel Ben-Ari, and György Buzsáki
Science 14 June 2002: 2049-2052.
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Technical Comments

 Global Allocation Rules for Patterns of Biomass Partitioning

Lawren Sack, Teodoro Marañón, Peter J. Grubb, Brian J. Enquist, and Karl J. Niklas
Science 14 June 2002: 1923.
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