This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 5 July 2002: 9.
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Editorial:
More Questions About Research Misconduct

Donald Kennedy
Science 5 July 2002: 13.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 5 July 2002: 15.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 5 July 2002: 119-121.

News of the Week

PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Were 'Little People' the First to Venture Out of Africa?

Michael Balter and Ann Gibbons
Science 5 July 2002: 26-27.
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CANCER RISKS:
Acrylamide in Food: Uncharted Territory

Giselle Weiss
Science 5 July 2002: 27.
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HOMELAND SECURITY:
Scientists Pan Plans for New U.S. Agency

David Malakoff
Science 5 July 2002: 27-29.
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GENOMICS CENTERS:
Disease Gene Research Heats Up in the Desert

Mari N. Jensen
Science 5 July 2002: 29-30.
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CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS:
Spintronics Innovation Bids to Bolster Bits

Robert F. Service
Science 5 July 2002: 30.
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MALARIA:
Ecologists See Flaws in Transgenic Mosquito

Martin Enserink
Science 5 July 2002: 30-31.
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FISHERIES RESEARCH:
Mixed Schools a Must for Fish?

David Malakoff
Science 5 July 2002: 31-33.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Collective Effort Makes the Good Times Roll

Adrian Cho
Science 5 July 2002: 33.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BELL LABS:
Winning Streak Brought Awe, and Then Doubt

Robert F. Service
Science 5 July 2002: 34-37.
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MATHEMATICS:
Graph Theory Uncovers the Roots of Perfection

Dana Mackenzie
Science 5 July 2002: 38.
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IMAGING TECHNOLOGY:
Beautiful Bioimages for the Eyes of Many Beholders

Vivien Marx
Science 5 July 2002: 39-40.
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SEISMOLOGY:
Data Treasures of the Test Ban Treaty

Richard Stone
Science 5 July 2002: 41-43.
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SOLAR SYSTEM:
Comet Chasers Get Serious

Govert Schilling
Science 5 July 2002: 44-45.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 5 July 2002: 49.
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 Kids, TV Viewing, and Aggressive Behavior

Peter H. Klopfer;, Shameet N. Bakshi;, Richard Hockey;, Jeffrey G. Johnson, Patricia Cohen, Elizabeth M. Smailes, Stephanie Kasen, and Judith S. Brook
Science 5 July 2002: 49-50.
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 Smallpox Transmission Risks: How Bad?

Laura H. Kahn
Science 5 July 2002: 50-51.
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 Calling It Something Other Than Cloning

David Alwyn Jones;, Eli Meyer;, Bert Vogelstein, Bruce Alberts, and Kenneth Shine
Science 5 July 2002: 51-52.
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Books et al.

PALEONTOLOGY:
Mammals on the European Stage

Tim Flannery
Science 5 July 2002: 57-58.
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ZOOLOGY:
Mammals of the Sea in Science and Culture

Ronald J. Schusterman
Science 5 July 2002: 58-59.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

Science 5 July 2002: 59.

Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
From the Modern Synthesis to Lysenkoism, and Back?

Uwe Hossfeld and Lennart Olsson
Science 5 July 2002: 55-56.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Tip of the Martian Iceberg?

Jim Bell
Science 5 July 2002: 60-61.
Published online 30 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1074025] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
DNA Building Block Reinvented

Alexey G. Murzin
Science 5 July 2002: 61-62.
Published online 23 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073910] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Tools for the Biomolecular Engineer

Christof M. Niemeyer
Science 5 July 2002: 62-63.
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CANCER:
Enhanced: Addiction to Oncogenes--the Achilles Heal of Cancer

I. Bernard Weinstein
Science 5 July 2002: 63-64.
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Brevia

 Low-Temperature Thin-Film Deposition and Crystallization

Sangmoon Park, Benjamin L. Clark, Douglas A. Keszler, Jeffrey P. Bender, John F. Wager, Thomas A. Reynolds, and Gregory S. Herman
Science 5 July 2002: 65.
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Reports

Pattern Formation in Homogeneous Polymer Solutions Induced by a Continuous-Wave Visible Laser

R. Sigel, G. Fytas, N. Vainos, S. Pispas, and N. Hadjichristidis
Science 5 July 2002: 67-70.
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Probing and Controlling the Bonds of an Artificial Molecule

Alexander W. Holleitner, Robert H. Blick, Andreas K. Hüttel, Karl Eberl, and Jörg P. Kotthaus
Science 5 July 2002: 70-72.
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Sequence-Specific Molecular Lithography on Single DNA Molecules

Kinneret Keren, Michael Krueger, Rachel Gilad, Gdalyahu Ben-Yoseph, Uri Sivan, and Erez Braun
Science 5 July 2002: 72-75.
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Global Distribution of Neutrons from Mars: Results from Mars Odyssey

W. C. Feldman, W. V. Boynton, R. L. Tokar, T. H. Prettyman, O. Gasnault, S. W. Squyres, R. C. Elphic, D. J. Lawrence, S. L. Lawson, S. Maurice, G. W. McKinney, K. R. Moore, and R. C. Reedy
Science 5 July 2002: 75-78.
Published online 30 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073541] (in Science Express Reports)
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Maps of Subsurface Hydrogen from the High Energy Neutron Detector, Mars Odyssey

I. Mitrofanov, D. Anfimov, A. Kozyrev, M. Litvak, A. Sanin, V. Tret'yakov, A. Krylov, V. Shvetsov, W. Boynton, C. Shinohara, D. Hamara, and R. S. Saunders
Science 5 July 2002: 78-81.
Published online 30 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073616] (in Science Express Reports)
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Distribution of Hydrogen in the Near Surface of Mars: Evidence for Subsurface Ice Deposits

W. V. Boynton, W. C. Feldman, S. W. Squyres, T. H. Prettyman, J. Brückner, L. G. Evans, R. C. Reedy, R. Starr, J. R. Arnold, D. M. Drake, P. A. J. Englert, A. E. Metzger, Igor Mitrofanov, J. I. Trombka, C. d'Uston, H. Wänke, O. Gasnault, D. K. Hamara, D. M. Janes, R. L. Marcialis, S. Maurice, I. Mikheeva, G. J. Taylor, R. Tokar, and C. Shinohara
Science 5 July 2002: 81-85.
Published online 30 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073722] (in Science Express Reports)
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A New Skull of Early Homo from Dmanisi, Georgia

Abesalom Vekua, David Lordkipanidze, G. Philip Rightmire, Jordi Agusti, Reid Ferring, Givi Maisuradze, Alexander Mouskhelishvili, Medea Nioradze, Marcia Ponce de Leon, Martha Tappen, Merab Tvalchrelidze, and Christoph Zollikofer
Science 5 July 2002: 85-89.
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Rooting the Eukaryote Tree by Using a Derived Gene Fusion

Alexandra Stechmann and Thomas Cavalier-Smith
Science 5 July 2002: 89-91.
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Rapid Regulation of Light Harvesting and Plant Fitness in the Field

Carsten Külheim, Jon Ågren, and Stefan Jansson
Science 5 July 2002: 91-93.
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Sustaining Fisheries Yields Over Evolutionary Time Scales

David O. Conover and Stephan B. Munch
Science 5 July 2002: 94-96.
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An Essential Role of N-Terminal Arginylation in Cardiovascular Development

Yong Tae Kwon, Anna S. Kashina, Ilia V. Davydov, Rong-Gui Hu, Jee Young An, Jai Wha Seo, Fangyong Du, and Alexander Varshavsky
Science 5 July 2002: 96-99.
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Target-Selected Inactivation of the Zebrafish rag1 Gene

Erno Wienholds, Stefan Schulte-Merker, Brigitte Walderich, and Ronald H. A. Plasterk
Science 5 July 2002: 99-102.
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Sustained Loss of a Neoplastic Phenotype by Brief Inactivation of MYC

Meenakshi Jain, Constadina Arvanitis, Kenneth Chu, William Dewey, Edith Leonhardt, Maxine Trinh, Christopher D. Sundberg, J. Michael Bishop, and Dean W. Felsher
Science 5 July 2002: 102-104.
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An Alternative Flavin-Dependent Mechanism for Thymidylate Synthesis

Hannu Myllykallio, Gerard Lipowski, Damien Leduc, Jonathan Filee, Patrick Forterre, and Ursula Liebl
Science 5 July 2002: 105-107.
Published online 23 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072113] (in Science Express Reports)
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Alternatively Spliced TCR mRNA Induced by Disruption of Reading Frame

Jun Wang, John I. Hamilton, Mark S. Carter, Shulin Li, and Miles F. Wilkinson
Science 5 July 2002: 108-110.
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Reversion of B Cell Commitment upon Loss of Pax5 Expression

Ingvild Mikkola, Barry Heavey, Markus Horcher, and Meinrad Busslinger
Science 5 July 2002: 110-113.
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Activation of Drosophila Toll During Fungal Infection by a Blood Serine Protease

Petros Ligoxygakis, Nadège Pelte, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Jean-Marc Reichhart
Science 5 July 2002: 114-116.
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