This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Steering a Course to an AIDS Vaccine

David Baltimore
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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

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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 28 June 2002: 2419-2421.

News of the Week

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Arrest of Ex-Harvard Postdocs Raises Questions of Ownership

Andrew Lawler
Science 28 June 2002: 2310-2311.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
China Regains Fossils Seized in California

Yimin Ding and Erik Stokstad
Science 28 June 2002: 2311.
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COUNTERTERRORISM:
Academies Weigh In on Homeland Defense

David Malakoff
Science 28 June 2002: 2311.
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EXOPLANETS:
Winking Star Unveils Planetary Birthplace

Richard A. Kerr
Science 28 June 2002: 2313-2314.
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AGBIOTECH:
A Little Pollen Goes a Long Way

Erik Stokstad
Science 28 June 2002: 2314.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Nanoparticles Cut Tumors' Supply Lines

Jennifer Couzin
Science 28 June 2002: 2314-2315.
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PATENTS:
NIH to Limit Scope of Foreign Patents

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 28 June 2002: 2316.
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OPTICS:
New Twist Could Pack Photons With Data

Andrew Watson
Science 28 June 2002: 2316-2317.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
CERN Panel Calls for Cuts and Shake-Ups

Giselle Weiss
Science 28 June 2002: 2317.
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ASTRONOMY:
Cosmic Lenses May Be Magnifying Quasars

Robert Irion
Science 28 June 2002: 2317-2319.
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CANADA:
Few Women Win New Academic Chairs

Wayne Kondro
Science 28 June 2002: 2319.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

THERAPIES:
Confronting the Limits of Success

Jon Cohen
Science 28 June 2002: 2320-2324.
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THERAPIES:
Raising the Limits

Jon Cohen
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THERAPIES:
The High Cost of Poverty

Jon Cohen
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VACCINES:
Monkey Puzzles

Jon Cohen
Science 28 June 2002: 2325-2326.
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PLANT GENETICS:
Something to Sniff At: Unbottling Floral Scent

Kathryn Brown
Science 28 June 2002: 2327-2329.
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PLANT GENETICS:
Plants 'Speak' Using Versatile Volatiles

Kathryn Brown
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Yucca Mountain: Should We Delay?

Michael J. Apted, Donald Langmuir, Dade W. Moeller, Joohhong Ahn;, Alan E. Waltar;, Detlof von Winterfeldt;, Rodney C. Ewing, and Allison Macfarlane
Science 28 June 2002: 2333-2335.
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 HIV-1 Diversity and Vaccine Development

Gary Nabel, William Makgoba, and Jose Esparza
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 Getting Smaller and Smaller

Stuart Landry
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

LINGUISTICS:
New Vines on Old Roots

Merrill Garrett
Science 28 June 2002: 2341-2342.
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HUMAN EVOLUTION:
Out of the Chattering Ice

Robert N. Proctor
Science 28 June 2002: 2342-2343.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

AIDS:
China and AIDS--The Time to Act Is Now

Joan Kaufman and Jun Jing
Science 28 June 2002: 2339-2340.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: White Dwarf Mergers and the Rebirth of Luminous Stars

U. Heber
Science 28 June 2002: 2344-2345.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
MAP Kinase Signaling Specificity

Claire R. Weston, David G. Lambright, and Roger J. Davis
Science 28 June 2002: 2345-2347.
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MOLECULAR DYNAMICS:
Biomolecules See the Light

David W. Pratt
Science 28 June 2002: 2347-2348.
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EVOLUTION:
Chaperones as Buffering Agents?

Thomas Mitchell-Olds and Charles A. Knight
Science 28 June 2002: 2348-2349.
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Reviews

Supernova Remnant OH Masers: Signposts of Cosmic Collision

Mark Wardle and Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
Science 28 June 2002: 2350-2354.
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Diversity Considerations in HIV-1 Vaccine Selection

Brian Gaschen, Jesse Taylor, Karina Yusim, Brian Foley, Feng Gao, Dorothy Lang, Vladimir Novitsky, Barton Haynes, Beatrice H. Hahn, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Bette Korber
Science 28 June 2002: 2354-2360.
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Brevia

 Separation of Water into Its Ortho and Para Isomers

Vladimir I. Tikhonov and Alexander A. Volkov
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Reports

Strongly Correlated Superconductivity

M. Capone, M. Fabrizio, C. Castellani, and E. Tosatti
Science 28 June 2002: 2364-2366.
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Storage of Methane and Freon by Interstitial van der Waals Confinement

Jerry L. Atwood, Leonard J. Barbour, and Agoston Jerga
Science 28 June 2002: 2367-2369.
Published online 9 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072252] (in Science Express Reports)
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Conformational Dynamics in a Dipeptide After Single-Mode Vibrational Excitation

Brian C. Dian, Asier Longarte, and Timothy S. Zwier
Science 28 June 2002: 2369-2373.
Published online 23 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1071563] (in Science Express Reports)
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Nitrate Controls on Iron and Arsenic in an Urban Lake

David B. Senn and Harold F. Hemond
Science 28 June 2002: 2373-2376.
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50 Million Years of Genomic Stasis in Endosymbiotic Bacteria

Ivica Tamas, Lisa Klasson, Björn Canbäck, A. Kristina Näslund, Ann-Sofie Eriksson, Jennifer J. Wernegreen, Jonas P. Sandström, Nancy A. Moran, and Siv G. E. Andersson
Science 28 June 2002: 2376-2379.
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A Tropical Rainforest in Colorado 1.4 Million Years After the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary

Kirk R. Johnson and Beth Ellis
Science 28 June 2002: 2379-2383.
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Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia

Rachel A. Wood, John P. Grotzinger, and J. A. D. Dickson
Science 28 June 2002: 2383-2386.
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Pollen-Mediated Movement of Herbicide Resistance Between Commercial Canola Fields

Mary A. Rieger, Michael Lamond, Christopher Preston, Stephen B. Powles, and Richard T. Roush
Science 28 June 2002: 2386-2388.
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Regulation of Hypoxic Death in C. elegans by the Insulin/IGF Receptor Homolog DAF-2

Barbara A. Scott, Michael S. Avidan, and C. Michael Crowder
Science 28 June 2002: 2388-2391.
Published online 13 June 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072302] (in Science Express Reports)
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Myeloperoxidase, a Leukocyte-Derived Vascular NO Oxidase

Jason P. Eiserich, Stephan Baldus, Marie-Luise Brennan, Wenxin Ma, Chunxiang Zhang, Albert Tousson, Laura Castro, Aldons J. Lusis, William M. Nauseef, C. Roger White, and Bruce A. Freeman
Science 28 June 2002: 2391-2394.
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Channelrhodopsin-1: A Light-Gated Proton Channel in Green Algae

Georg Nagel, Doris Ollig, Markus Fuhrmann, Suneel Kateriya, Anna Maria Musti, Ernst Bamberg, and Peter Hegemann
Science 28 June 2002: 2395-2398.
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A Low Genomic Number of Recessive Lethals in Natural Populations of Bluefin Killifish and Zebrafish

Amy R. McCune, Rebecca C. Fuller, Allisan A. Aquilina, Robert M. Dawley, James M. Fadool, David Houle, Joseph Travis, and Alexey S. Kondrashov
Science 28 June 2002: 2398-2401.
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AGTR2 Mutations in X-Linked Mental Retardation

Virginie S. Vervoort, Michael A. Beachem, Penny S. Edwards, Sydney Ladd, Karin E. Miller, Xavier de Mollerat, Katie Clarkson, Barbara DuPont, Charles E. Schwartz, Roger E. Stevenson, Ellen Boyd, and Anand K. Srivastava
Science 28 June 2002: 2401-2403.
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Tumor Regression by Targeted Gene Delivery to the Neovasculature

John D. Hood, Mark Bednarski, Ricardo Frausto, Samira Guccione, Ralph A. Reisfeld, Rong Xiang, and David A. Cheresh
Science 28 June 2002: 2404-2407.
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Ongoing Modification of Mediterranean Pleistocene Sapropels Mediated by Prokaryotes

Marco J. L. Coolen, Heribert Cypionka, Andrea M. Sass, Henrik Sass, and Jörg Overmann
Science 28 June 2002: 2407-2410.
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Correction of ADA-SCID by Stem Cell Gene Therapy Combined with Nonmyeloablative Conditioning

Alessandro Aiuti, Shimon Slavin, Memet Aker, Francesca Ficara, Sara Deola, Alessandra Mortellaro, Shoshana Morecki, Grazia Andolfi, Antonella Tabucchi, Filippo Carlucci, Enrico Marinello, Federica Cattaneo, Sergio Vai, Paolo Servida, Roberto Miniero, Maria Grazia Roncarolo, and Claudio Bordignon
Science 28 June 2002: 2410-2413.
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