This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Biosphere, Health, and "Sustainability"

Tony McMichael
Science 16 August 2002: 1093.
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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 16 August 2002: 1199-1200.

News of the Week

EVOLUTION:
Could Poor Nutrition Have Held Life Back?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 August 2002: 1104-1105.
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LANGUAGE EVOLUTION:
'Speech Gene' Tied to Modern Humans

Michael Balter
Science 16 August 2002: 1105.
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NUMBER THEORY:
Simple Recipe Creates Acid Test for Primes

Barry Cipra
Science 16 August 2002: 1105-1106.
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ITALIAN REFORMS:
Planned Mergers Raise Hue and Cry

Alexander Hellemans
Science 16 August 2002: 1106-1107.
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:
Birds Spy on Neighbors To Choose Nest Sites

Jay Withgott
Science 16 August 2002: 1107-1108.
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COMPUTER SECURITY:
Congress Expands Cyberfellows Program

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 August 2002: 1108.
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PATIENT RECORDS:
Researchers Welcome Revised Privacy Rules

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 16 August 2002: 1108-1109.
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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE:
NIH Trial to Test Chelation Therapy

Constance Holden
Science 16 August 2002: 1109.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BIODEFENSE:
Peering Into the Shadows: Iraq's Bioweapons Program

Richard Stone
Science 16 August 2002: 1110-1112.
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PROFILE: CLAUDIE HAIGNERÉ:
France's Highflier Comes Down to Earth

Michael Balter
Science 16 August 2002: 1112-1113.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Gravitational Wave Hunters Take Aim at the Sky

Robert Irion
Science 16 August 2002: 1113-1115.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
LIGO: The Shakedown Continues

Robert Irion
Science 16 August 2002: 1115.
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DRUG TARGETING:
Breaking Down Barriers

Greg Miller
Science 16 August 2002: 1116-1118.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 On Stephen Jay Gould

Caroline L. Herzenberg
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 Correction

A. Meibom and R. Frei
Science 16 August 2002: 1120.
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 Political, Not Scientific, Birth Control Solutions

Carl Djerassi
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 A Birth Control Alternative

Jack Lippes
Science 16 August 2002: 1121.
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 Ribonucleases in Ruminants

Jaap J. Beintema; and Steven A. Benner
Science 16 August 2002: 1121-1122.
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 A Soldier's View of the USAMRIID

Michelle Blanchard
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

GENERAL SCIENCE:
Unexpected Consequences of Connections

Ian Foster
Science 16 August 2002: 1124-1125.
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PSYCHIATRY:
Marketing Drugs to Mend Minds

Herbert Y. Meltzer
Science 16 August 2002: 1125-1126.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Conservation Priorities for Russian Mammals

Leonard V. Polishchuk
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY:
A Marine Source for Alkyl Nitrates

Karlheinz Ballschmiter
Science 16 August 2002: 1127-1128.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Contact—How Platelets Touch von Willebrand Factor

J. Evan Sadler
Science 16 August 2002: 1128-1129.
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GENETIC NETWORKS:
Small Numbers of Big Molecules

Nina Fedoroff and Walter Fontana
Science 16 August 2002: 1129-1131.
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PHYSICS:
Resolving Physical Processes on the Attosecond Time Scale

Maciej Lewenstein
Science 16 August 2002: 1131-1132.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: It Takes More Than Two to Nogo

Clifford J. Woolf and Stefan Bloechlinger
Science 16 August 2002: 1132-1134.
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ASTRONOMY:
The Secrets Behind Supernovae

H.-Th. Janka
Science 16 August 2002: 1134-1135.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Doublesex in the Middle

Kenneth C. Burtis
Science 16 August 2002: 1135-1136.
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Tech.Sight

MICROFLUIDICS:
Microscale Bioanalytical Systems

Deirdre R. Meldrum and Mark R. Holl
Science 16 August 2002: 1197-1198.
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Review

Proterozoic Ocean Chemistry and Evolution: A Bioinorganic Bridge?

A. D. Anbar and A. H. Knoll
Science 16 August 2002: 1137-1142.
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Brevia

 Allelic Variation in Human Gene Expression

Hai Yan, Weishi Yuan, Victor E. Velculescu, Bert Vogelstein, and Kenneth W. Kinzler
Science 16 August 2002: 1143.
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Research Article

Steering Attosecond Electron Wave Packets with Light

R. Kienberger, M. Hentschel, M. Uiberacker, Ch. Spielmann, M. Kitzler, A. Scrinzi, M. Wieland, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, and F. Krausz
Science 16 August 2002: 1144-1148.
Published online 11 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073866] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Imaging Quasiparticle Interference in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊

J. E. Hoffman, K. McElroy, D.-H. Lee, K. M Lang, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis
Science 16 August 2002: 1148-1151.
Published online 25 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072640] (in Science Express Reports)
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Direct Evidence for a Marine Source of C₁ and C₂ Alkyl Nitrates

Adele L. Chuck, Suzanne M. Turner, and Peter S. Liss
Science 16 August 2002: 1151-1154.
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Subduction and Recycling of Nitrogen Along the Central American Margin

Tobias P. Fischer, David R. Hilton, Mindy M. Zimmer, Alison M. Shaw, Zachary D. Sharp, and James A. Walker
Science 16 August 2002: 1154-1157.
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Splay Fault Branching Along the Nankai Subduction Zone

Jin-Oh Park, Tetsuro Tsuru, Shuichi Kodaira, Phil R. Cummins, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Science 16 August 2002: 1157-1160.
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Photothermal Imaging of Nanometer-Sized Metal Particles Among Scatterers

David Boyer, Philippe Tamarat, Abdelhamid Maali, Brahim Lounis, and Michel Orrit
Science 16 August 2002: 1160-1163.
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Electron Solvation in Two Dimensions

A. D. Miller, I. Bezel, K. J. Gaffney, S. Garrett-Roe, S. H. Liu, P. Szymanski, and C. B. Harris
Science 16 August 2002: 1163-1166.
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Rotationally Resolved Infrared Spectrum of the Charge Transfer Complex [Ar-N₂]⁺

H. Linnartz, D. Verdes, and J. P. Maier
Science 16 August 2002: 1166-1167.
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Public Information and Breeding Habitat Selection in a Wild Bird Population

Blandine Doligez, Etienne Danchin, and Jean Clobert
Science 16 August 2002: 1168-1170.
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Biosynthesis of the Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotic C-1027

Wen Liu, Steven D. Christenson, Scott Standage, and Ben Shen
Science 16 August 2002: 1170-1173.
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The Calicheamicin Gene Cluster and Its Iterative Type I Enediyne PKS

Joachim Ahlert, Erica Shepard, Natalia Lomovskaya, Emmanuel Zazopoulos, Alfredo Staffa, Brian O. Bachmann, Kexue Huang, Leonid Fonstein, Anne Czisny, Ross E. Whitwam, Chris M. Farnet, and Jon S. Thorson
Science 16 August 2002: 1173-1176.
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Structures of Glycoprotein Ib and Its Complex with von Willebrand Factor A1 Domain

Eric G. Huizinga, Shizuko Tsuji, Roland A. P. Romijn, Marion E. Schiphorst, Philip G. de Groot, Jan J. Sixma, and Piet Gros
Science 16 August 2002: 1176-1179.
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Tissue-Specific Regulation of Retinal and Pituitary Precursor Cell Proliferation

Xue Li, Valentina Perissi, Forrest Liu, David W. Rose, and Michael G. Rosenfeld
Science 16 August 2002: 1180-1183.
Published online 18 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073263] (in Science Express Reports)
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Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell

Michael B. Elowitz, Arnold J. Levine, Eric D. Siggia, and Peter S. Swain
Science 16 August 2002: 1183-1186.
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S-Nitrosylation of Matrix Metalloproteinases: Signaling Pathway to Neuronal Cell Death

Zezong Gu, Marcus Kaul, Boxu Yan, Steven J. Kridel, Jiankun Cui, Alex Strongin, Jeffrey W. Smith, Robert C. Liddington, and Stuart A. Lipton
Science 16 August 2002: 1186-1190.
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Myelin-Associated Glycoprotein as a Functional Ligand for the Nogo-66 Receptor

Betty P. Liu, Alyson Fournier, Tadzia GrandPré, and Stephen M. Strittmatter
Science 16 August 2002: 1190-1193.
Published online 27 June 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073031] (in Science Express Reports)
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Amphiphysin 2 (Bin1) and T-Tubule Biogenesis in Muscle

Eunkyung Lee, Melissa Marcucci, Laurie Daniell, Marc Pypaert, Ora A. Weisz, Gian-Carlo Ochoa, Khashayar Farsad, Markus R. Wenk, and Pietro De Camilli
Science 16 August 2002: 1193-1196.
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