This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Sharing Agriculture's Genetic Bounty

Cary Fowler
Science 12 July 2002: 157.
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Agreement Unlocks Loan for TB and AIDS Treatment in Russia

Paul Webster
Science 12 July 2002: 170.
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CANCER RISK:
Nudge From Congress Prompts NCI Review

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 July 2002: 171.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
First Member of Human Family Uncovered

Ann Gibbons
Science 12 July 2002: 171-173.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
AIDS Researcher Named CDC Chief

Eliot Marshall
Science 12 July 2002: 173-174.
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MATHEMATICS:
NSF to Double Number of Math Institutes

Barry Cipra
Science 12 July 2002: 174.
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VIROLOGY:
Active Poliovirus Baked From Scratch

Jennifer Couzin
Science 12 July 2002: 174-175.
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS:
Stem Cells Not So Stealthy After All

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 July 2002: 175-177.
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SOLAR SYSTEM ORIGINS:
Diamond Dust Dearth Raises Doubts

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 July 2002: 177.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEUROSCIENCE:
Animal Studies Raise Hopes for Spinal Cord Repair

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 12 July 2002: 178-181.
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NINDS Delves Into Drug Development

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 12 July 2002: 180.
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GEOSCIENCE:
Data Dilemma: Stow It, Or Kiss It Goodbye

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 July 2002: 181-183.
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RESEARCH MANAGEMENT:
Big Facilities Account Is Big Headache for NSF

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 July 2002: 183-184.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Shadowy 'Weak Force' Steps Into the Light

Charles Seife
Science 12 July 2002: 184-187.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Taxonomic Bias in Conservation Research

J. Alan Clark and Robert M. May
Science 12 July 2002: 191-192.
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 Igniting Nanotubes with a Flash

Bradley Bockrath, J. Karl Johnson, David S. Sholl, Bret Howard, Christopher Matranga, Wei Shi, Daniel Sorescu;, P. M. Ajayan, G. Ramanath, M. Terrones, and T. W. Ebbesen
Science 12 July 2002: 192-193.
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 Eisenstein's Departure from the NSF

Joseph Bordogna
Science 12 July 2002: 193-194.
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 Being Human

Isabel Azevedo
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 Mother Knows Best

David J. Meltzer and Donald K. Grayson
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Books et al.

NUTRITION:
The Food Pushers

Walter Willett
Science 12 July 2002: 198-199.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Consequences of Raising Cane

Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

HUMAN GENETICS:
A Rational View of Insurance and Genetic Discrimination

William Nowlan
Science 12 July 2002: 195-196.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Before It's Too Late--Addressing Fear of Genetic Information

Karen H. Rothenberg and Sharon F. Terry
Science 12 July 2002: 196-197.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
PARP-1--a Perpetrator of Apoptotic Cell Death?

Alberto Chiarugi and Michael A. Moskowitz
Science 12 July 2002: 200-201.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
A Binding Contract for Anthrax

James J. Bull and Colin R. Parrish
Science 12 July 2002: 201-202.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Enhanced: The Glacial Tropical Pacific--Not Just a West Side Story

David W. Lea
Science 12 July 2002: 202-203.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Sociogenomics Takes Flight

Gene E. Robinson
Science 12 July 2002: 204-205.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Squeezing X-ray Photons

Till H. Metzger
Science 12 July 2002: 205-206.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Earth's Long-Term Memory

Hugo Beltrami
Science 12 July 2002: 206-207.
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Brevia

 Another Phocine Distemper Outbreak in Europe

Trine Jensen, Marco van de Bildt, Hans Henrik Dietz, Ths. Holmen Andersen, Anne Sofie Hammer, Thijs Kuiken, and Albert Osterhaus
Science 12 July 2002: 209.
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Research Articles

Requirement for Hippocampal CA3 NMDA Receptors in Associative Memory Recall

Kazu Nakazawa, Michael C. Quirk, Raymond A. Chitwood, Masahiko Watanabe, Mark F. Yeckel, Linus D. Sun, Akira Kato, Candice A. Carr, Daniel Johnston, Matthew A. Wilson, and Susumu Tonegawa
Science 12 July 2002: 211-218.
Published online 30 May 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1071795] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Surface Melt-Induced Acceleration of Greenland Ice-Sheet Flow

H. Jay Zwally, Waleed Abdalati, Tom Herring, Kristine Larson, Jack Saba, and Konrad Steffen
Science 12 July 2002: 218-222.
Published online 6 June 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072708] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Super ENSO and Global Climate Oscillations at Millennial Time Scales

Lowell Stott, Christopher Poulsen, Steve Lund, and Robert Thunell
Science 12 July 2002: 222-226.
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Reports

El Niño-Like Pattern in Ice Age Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature

Athanasios Koutavas, Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Thomas M. Marchitto, Jr., and Julian P. Sachs
Science 12 July 2002: 226-230.
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Two-Dimensional X-ray Waveguides and Point Sources

F. Pfeiffer, C. David, M. Burghammer, C. Riekel, and T. Salditt
Science 12 July 2002: 230-234.
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Spin-Polarized Resonant Tunneling in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

S. Yuasa, T. Nagahama, and Y. Suzuki
Science 12 July 2002: 234-237.
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Spontaneous Organization of Single CdTe Nanoparticles into Luminescent Nanowires

Zhiyong Tang, Nicholas A. Kotov, and Michael Giersig
Science 12 July 2002: 237-240.
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Role for Stearoyl-CoA Desaturase-1 in Leptin-Mediated Weight Loss

Paul Cohen, Makoto Miyazaki, Nicholas D. Socci, Aaron Hagge-Greenberg, Wolfgang Liedtke, Alexander A. Soukas, Ratnendra Sharma, Lisa C. Hudgins, James M. Ntambi, and Jeffrey M. Friedman
Science 12 July 2002: 240-243.
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Multiple Roles of Arabidopsis VRN1 in Vernalization and Flowering Time Control

Yaron Y. Levy, Stéphane Mesnage, Joshua S. Mylne, Anthony R. Gendall, and Caroline Dean
Science 12 July 2002: 243-246.
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Generation of Self-Incompatible Arabidopsis thaliana by Transfer of Two S Locus Genes from A. lyrata

Mikhail E. Nasrallah, Pei Liu, and June B. Nasrallah
Science 12 July 2002: 247-249.
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Evolution of the Gene Network Underlying Wing Polyphenism in Ants

Ehab Abouheif and Gregory A. Wray
Science 12 July 2002: 249-252.
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Evolution and Development of Sex Differences in Cooperative Behavior in Meerkats

T. H. Clutton-Brock, A. F. Russell, L. L. Sharpe, A. J. Young, Z. Balmforth, and G. M. McIlrath
Science 12 July 2002: 253-256.
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Leg Patterning Driven by Proximal-Distal Interactions and EGFR Signaling

M. I. Galindo, S. A. Bishop, S. Greig, and J. P. Couso
Science 12 July 2002: 256-259.
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Mediation of Poly(ADP-Ribose) Polymerase-1-Dependent Cell Death by Apoptosis-Inducing Factor

Seong-Woon Yu, Hongmin Wang, Marc F. Poitras, Carmen Coombs, William J. Bowers, Howard J. Federoff, Guy G. Poirier, Ted M. Dawson, and Valina L. Dawson
Science 12 July 2002: 259-263.
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