This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Not Wicked, Perhaps, but Tacky

Donald Kennedy
Science 23 August 2002: 1237.
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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 23 August 2002: 1361-1363.

News of the Week

PHARMACOGENETICS:
Gene Mutation May Boost Risk of Heart Arrhythmias

Jean Marx
Science 23 August 2002: 1252.
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CONTOUR MISSION:
Comet Craft in Pieces, Astronomers Fear

Govert Schilling
Science 23 August 2002: 1253.
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MATHEMATICS:
Medals Honor Work on Linkages and Proof

Charles Seife
Science 23 August 2002: 1253-1255.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Cool Cats Lose Out in the Mane Event

Jay Withgott
Science 23 August 2002: 1255-1256.
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CENTRAL EUROPE FLOODS:
Labs Spared as Climate Change Gets Top Billing

Gretchen Vogel
Science 23 August 2002: 1256.
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ANIMAL BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Environmental Impact Seen as Biggest Risk

Erik Stokstad
Science 23 August 2002: 1257.
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ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING:
DOE Cites Competition in Killing PubSCIENCE

Charles Seife
Science 23 August 2002: 1257-1259.
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SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES:
U.S. Visa Crackdown Disrupts Meetings

Richard Stone
Science 23 August 2002: 1259.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEW THERAPIES:
New Alzheimer's Treatments That May Ease the Mind

Laura Helmuth
Science 23 August 2002: 1260-1262.
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NSAIDS FOR PREVENTION?:
Protecting the Brain While Killing Pain?

Laura Helmuth
Science 23 August 2002: 1262-1263.
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PROFILE: BARBARA HATCH ROSENBERG:
Unconventional Detective Bears Down on a Killer

Jennifer Couzin
Science 23 August 2002: 1264-1265.
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CLIMATE FORECASTING:
Drought Exposes Cracks in India's Monsoon Model

Pallava Bagla
Science 23 August 2002: 1265-1267.
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PLANT GENETICS:
Surviving the Long Nights: How Plants Keep Their Cool

Kathryn Brown
Science 23 August 2002: 1267-1268.
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STATISTICAL PHYSICS:
A Fresh Take on Disorder, Or Disorderly Science?

Adrian Cho
Science 23 August 2002: 1268-1269.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Many Courts Still Frye Scientific Evidence

Leonard Deftos; and David L. Faigman
Science 23 August 2002: 1275-1276.
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 Supplementing Antiretroviral Therapy

George M. Carter, Richard Elion, Mark Kuebel, Janet Mindes, Devan Nambiar, Jane Shull, Vince Silenzio, and Jackie Wootton
Science 23 August 2002: 1276.
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 Alternative HIV Vaccine Strategies

Thomas Lehner and Gene M. Shearer
Science 23 August 2002: 1276-1277.
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 Envelope-Based HIV Vaccines

John J. Donnelly, Susan W. Barnett, Alejandro Dorenbaum, Leonidas Stamatatos;, and Jon Cohen
Science 23 August 2002: 1277-1278.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Ascetic and the Vixen

Stephen Kotkin
Science 23 August 2002: 1281-1282.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Travelers in Space and Time

Monica Grady
Science 23 August 2002: 1282-1283.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

GENETICS:
DNA Patenting and Licensing

Michelle R. Henry, Mildred K. Cho, Meredith A. Weaver, and Jon F. Merz
Science 23 August 2002: 1279.
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Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Vertebrate Genomes Compared

S. Blair Hedges and Sudhir Kumar
Science 23 August 2002: 1283-1285.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Dynamics in Ceramics

Jonathan F. Stebbins
Science 23 August 2002: 1285-1287.
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CLIMATE:
An Exceptionally Long Interglacial Ahead?

A. Berger and M. F. Loutre
Science 23 August 2002: 1287-1288.
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THERMODYNAMICS:
Enhanced: Water and Ice

Alan K. Soper
Science 23 August 2002: 1288-1289.
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NEUROSCIENCE AND EVOLUTION:
Snake Sodium Channels Resist TTX Arrest

Raymond B. Huey and William J. Moody
Science 23 August 2002: 1289-1290.
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APOPTOSIS:
A Cinderella Caspase Takes Center Stage

Sharad Kumar and David L. Vaux
Science 23 August 2002: 1290-1291.
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Review

Ecological Effects of Climate Fluctuations

Nils C. Stenseth, Atle Mysterud, Geir Ottersen, James W. Hurrell, Kung-Sik Chan, and Mauricio Lima
Science 23 August 2002: 1292-1296.
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Brevia

 Failure of Bone Marrow Cells to Transdifferentiate into Neural Cells in Vivo

Raymond F. Castro, Kathyjo A. Jackson, Margaret A. Goodell, Claudia S. Robertson, Hao Liu, and H. David Shine
Science 23 August 2002: 1299.
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Research Article

Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembly and Analysis of the Genome of Fugu rubripes

Samuel Aparicio, Jarrod Chapman, Elia Stupka, Nik Putnam, Jer-ming Chia, Paramvir Dehal, Alan Christoffels, Sam Rash, Shawn Hoon, Arian Smit, Maarten D. Sollewijn Gelpke, Jared Roach, Tania Oh, Isaac Y. Ho, Marie Wong, Chris Detter, Frans Verhoef, Paul Predki, Alice Tay, Susan Lucas, Paul Richardson, Sarah F. Smith, Melody S. Clark, Yvonne J. K. Edwards, Norman Doggett, Andrey Zharkikh, Sean V. Tavtigian, Dmitry Pruss, Mary Barnstead, Cheryl Evans, Holly Baden, Justin Powell, Gustavo Glusman, Lee Rowen, Leroy Hood, Y. H. Tan, Greg Elgar, Trevor Hawkins, Byrappa Venkatesh, Daniel Rokhsar, and Sydney Brenner
Science 23 August 2002: 1301-1310.
Published online 25 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072104] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Tracing Black Hole Mergers Through Radio Lobe Morphology

David Merritt and R. D. Ekers
Science 23 August 2002: 1310-1313.
Published online 1 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1074688] (in Science Express Reports)
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Current Rectification by Pauli Exclusion in a Weakly Coupled Double Quantum Dot System

K. Ono, D. G. Austing, Y. Tokura, and S. Tarucha
Science 23 August 2002: 1313-1317.
Published online 25 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1070958] (in Science Express Reports)
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Probing Oxygen Motion in Disordered Anionic Conductors with ¹⁷O and ⁵¹V MAS NMR Spectroscopy

Namjun Kim and Clare P. Grey
Science 23 August 2002: 1317-1320.
Published online 18 July 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1074130] (in Science Express Reports)
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Structural Studies of Several Distinct Metastable Forms of Amorphous Ice

C. A. Tulk, C. J. Benmore, J. Urquidi, D. D. Klug, J. Neuefeind, B. Tomberli, and P. A. Egelstaff
Science 23 August 2002: 1320-1323.
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The Vibration-Rotation Emission Spectrum of Free BeH₂

Peter F. Bernath, Alireza Shayesteh, Keith Tereszchuk, and Reginald Colin
Science 23 August 2002: 1323-1324.
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An Archean Impact Layer from the Pilbara and Kaapvaal Cratons

Gary R. Byerly, Donald R. Lowe, Joseph L. Wooden, and Xiaogang Xie
Science 23 August 2002: 1325-1327.
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C-O Bond Formation by Polyketide Synthases

Hyung-Jin Kwon, Wyatt C. Smith, A. Janelle Scharon, Sung Hee Hwang, Mark J. Kurth, and Ben Shen
Science 23 August 2002: 1327-1330.
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Structure of the Extracellular Region of HER3 Reveals an Interdomain Tether

Hyun-Soo Cho and Daniel J. Leahy
Science 23 August 2002: 1330-1333.
Published online 1 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1074611] (in Science Express Reports)
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Variant of SCN5A Sodium Channel Implicated in Risk of Cardiac Arrhythmia

Igor Splawski, Katherine W. Timothy, Michihiro Tateyama, Colleen E. Clancy, Alka Malhotra, Alan H. Beggs, Francesco P. Cappuccio, Giuseppe A. Sagnella, Robert S. Kass, and Mark T. Keating
Science 23 August 2002: 1333-1336.
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Mechanisms of Adaptation in a Predator-Prey Arms Race: TTX-Resistant Sodium Channels

Shana Geffeney, Edmund D. Brodie, Jr., Peter C. Ruben, and Edmund D. Brodie, III
Science 23 August 2002: 1336-1339.
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Sexual Selection, Temperature, and the Lion's Mane

Peyton M. West and Craig Packer
Science 23 August 2002: 1339-1343.
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Meiotic Arrest in the Mouse Follicle Maintained by a G_s Protein in the Oocyte

Lisa M. Mehlmann, Teresa L. Z. Jones, and Laurinda A. Jaffe
Science 23 August 2002: 1343-1345.
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Distinct Modes of Signal Recognition Particle Interaction with the Ribosome

Martin R. Pool, Joachim Stumm, Tudor A. Fulga, Irmgard Sinning, and Bernhard Dobberstein
Science 23 August 2002: 1345-1348.
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Fusion Pore Dynamics and Insulin Granule Exocytosis in the Pancreatic Islet

Noriko Takahashi, Takuya Kishimoto, Tomomi Nemoto, Takashi Kadowaki, and Haruo Kasai
Science 23 August 2002: 1349-1352.
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Requirement for Caspase-2 in Stress-Induced Apoptosis Before Mitochondrial Permeabilization

Patrice Lassus, Ximena Opitz-Araya, and Yuri Lazebnik
Science 23 August 2002: 1352-1354.
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hamlet, a Binary Genetic Switch Between Single- and Multiple- Dendrite Neuron Morphology

Adrian W. Moore, Lily Yeh Jan, and Yuh Nung Jan
Science 23 August 2002: 1355-1358.
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