This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science in an Age of Terrorism

Mitchel B. Wallerstein
Science 27 September 2002: 2169.
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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

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 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

MICROWAVE BACKGROUND:
Subtle Signals in Ancient Light Promise New View of Cosmos

Charles Seife
Science 27 September 2002: 2184.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
California Flashes a Green Light

Constance Holden
Science 27 September 2002: 2185.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Drug Find Could Give Ravers the Jitters

Constance Holden
Science 27 September 2002: 2185-2187.
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U.S. SCIENCE POLICY:
NSF Fights Changes in Oversight Bill

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 27 September 2002: 2187-2188.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Rings of Light Could Reveal Black Holes

Robert Irion
Science 27 September 2002: 2188.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Mystery Anti-HIV Factor Unmasked?

Jon Cohen
Science 27 September 2002: 2188.
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CHEMISTRY:
Catalyst Boosts Hopes for Hydrogen Bonanza

Robert F. Service
Science 27 September 2002: 2189-2190.
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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
Million-Dollar Plums for Teaching Biology

Erik Stokstad
Science 27 September 2002: 2190-2191.
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U.S. ENVIRONMENT:
Report Takes Stock of Knowns and Unknowns

Ben Shouse
Science 27 September 2002: 2191.
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ANIMAL RESEARCH:
Coulston Chimps Head to Retirement

Gretchen Vogel
Science 27 September 2002: 2191-2193.
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COMPUTER SECURITY:
Crucial Cipher Flawed, Cryptographers Claim

Charles Seife
Science 27 September 2002: 2193.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ECOLOGY:
Arizona Ecologist Puts Stamp on Forest Restoration Debate

David Malakoff
Science 27 September 2002: 2194-2196.
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ECOLOGY:
Out of the Vault, Into the Forest

David Malakoff
Science 27 September 2002: 2196.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH ELIAS ZERHOUNI:
Piloting High-Flying NIH to a Soft Landing

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 27 September 2002: 2197-2198.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Ashes to Ashes: The Inner Lives of Neutron Stars

Robert Irion
Science 27 September 2002: 2199-2201.
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EUROPEAN CLIMATE:
Mild Winters Mostly Hot Air, Not Gulf Stream

Richard A. Kerr
Science 27 September 2002: 2202.
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PROFILE: IAN REDMOND:
An 11th-Hour Rescue for Great Apes?

John Bohannon
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Form, Function, and the Flight of the Pterosaur

John Michael Williams;, Alexander W. A. Kellner, and Diogenes A. Campos
Science 27 September 2002: 2207-2208.
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 Humility in Observational Studies

James D. Shelton
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 The Difficulties of Double Blinding

Jean Mercer
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 Science and Technology Centers and Education

Carl A. Batt
Science 27 September 2002: 2208-2209.
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 A Bad Agenda?

Leonid V. Azaroff
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HUMAN BEHAVIOR:
The Corpse of a Wearisome Debate

Patrick Bateson
Science 27 September 2002: 2212-2213.
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 Browsings

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VIROLOGY:
Chance Favors the Prepared Mind

Robin A. Weiss
Science 27 September 2002: 2213.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Clinical Trials and Industry

Patricia Baird, Jocelyn Downie, and Jon Thompson
Science 27 September 2002: 2211.
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Perspectives

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Enhanced: Soot Takes Center Stage

William L. Chameides and Michael Bergin
Science 27 September 2002: 2214-2215.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
An RNA-Guided Pathway for the Epigenome

Thomas Jenuwein
Science 27 September 2002: 2215-2218.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Gluten and the Gut--Lessons for Immune Regulation

Detlef Schuppan and Eckhart G. Hahn
Science 27 September 2002: 2218-2220.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Active Volcanism on Io

Alfred S. McEwen
Science 27 September 2002: 2220-2221.
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EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS:
Insecticide Resistance on the Move

I. Denholm, G. J. Devine, and M. S. Williamson
Science 27 September 2002: 2222-2223.
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CLIMATE:
The Ocean's Role in Atlantic Climate Variability

Martin Visbeck
Science 27 September 2002: 2223-2224.
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Brevia

 Generation of Live Young from Xenografted Mouse Ovaries

Melanie Snow, Shae-Lee Cox, Graham Jenkin, Alan Trounson, and Jillian Shaw
Science 27 September 2002: 2227.
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Research Articles

Quantum Dot Superlattice Thermoelectric Materials and Devices

T. C. Harman, P. J. Taylor, M. P. Walsh, and B. E. LaForge
Science 27 September 2002: 2229-2232.
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Establishment and Maintenance of a Heterochromatin Domain

Ira M. Hall, Gurumurthy D. Shankaranarayana, Ken-ichi Noma, Nabieh Ayoub, Amikam Cohen, and Shiv I. S. Grewal
Science 27 September 2002: 2232-2237.
Published online 5 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076466] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Orbital Ordering Transition in La₄Ru₂O₁₀

P. Khalifah, R. Osborn, Q. Huang, H. W. Zandbergen, R. Jin, Y. Liu, D. Mandrus, and R. J. Cava
Science 27 September 2002: 2237-2240.
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Collapse of a Degenerate Fermi Gas

Giovanni Modugno, Giacomo Roati, Francesco Riboli, Francesca Ferlaino, Robert J. Brecha, and Massimo Inguscio
Science 27 September 2002: 2240-2243.
Published online 29 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1077386] (in Science Express Reports)
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Efficient Photochemical Water Splitting by a Chemically Modified n-TiO₂

Shahed U. M. Khan, Mofareh Al-Shahry, and William B. Ingler, Jr.
Science 27 September 2002: 2243-2245.
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The Origin of Aluminum Flocs in Polluted Streams

Gerhard Furrer, Brian L. Phillips, Kai-Uwe Ulrich, Rosemarie Pöthig, and William H. Casey
Science 27 September 2002: 2245-2247.
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Hydrogen Clusters in Clathrate Hydrate

Wendy L. Mao, Ho-kwang Mao, Alexander F. Goncharov, Viktor V. Struzhkin, Quanzhong Guo, Jingzhu Hu, Jinfu Shu, Russell J. Hemley, Maddury Somayazulu, and Yusheng Zhao
Science 27 September 2002: 2247-2249.
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Climate Effects of Black Carbon Aerosols in China and India

Surabi Menon, James Hansen, Larissa Nazarenko, and Yunfeng Luo
Science 27 September 2002: 2250-2253.
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A Single P450 Allele Associated with Insecticide Resistance in Drosophila

P. J. Daborn, J. L. Yen, M. R. Bogwitz, G. Le Goff, E. Feil, S. Jeffers, N. Tijet, T. Perry, D. Heckel, P. Batterham, R. Feyereisen, T. G. Wilson, and R. H. ffrench-Constant
Science 27 September 2002: 2253-2256.
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Little Evidence for Developmental Plasticity of Adult Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Amy J. Wagers, Richard I. Sherwood, Julie L. Christensen, and Irving L. Weissman
Science 27 September 2002: 2256-2259.
Published online 5 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1074807] (in Science Express Reports)
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Severe Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity in Primates After a Common Recreational Dose Regimen of MDMA ("Ecstasy")

George A. Ricaurte, Jie Yuan, George Hatzidimitriou, Branden J. Cord, and Una D. McCann
Science 27 September 2002: 2260-2263.
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Conversion of Unc104/KIF1A Kinesin into a Processive Motor After Dimerization

Michio Tomishige, Dieter R. Klopfenstein, and Ronald D. Vale
Science 27 September 2002: 2263-2267.
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Role of Hec1 in Spindle Checkpoint Signaling and Kinetochore Recruitment of Mad1/Mad2

Silvia Martin-Lluesma, Volker M. Stucke, and Erich A. Nigg
Science 27 September 2002: 2267-2270.
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Gene Expression During the Life Cycle of Drosophila melanogaster

Michelle N. Arbeitman, Eileen E. M. Furlong, Farhad Imam, Eric Johnson, Brian H. Null, Bruce S. Baker, Mark A. Krasnow, Matthew P. Scott, Ronald W. Davis, and Kevin P. White
Science 27 September 2002: 2270-2275.
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Structural Basis for Gluten Intolerance in Celiac Sprue

Lu Shan, Øyvind Molberg, Isabelle Parrot, Felix Hausch, Ferda Filiz, Gary M. Gray, Ludvig M. Sollid, and Chaitan Khosla
Science 27 September 2002: 2275-2279.
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Technical Comments

 Random Perturbations and Lattice Effects in Chaotic Population Dynamics

Gábor Domokos, István Scheuring, Aaron A. King, Robert A. Desharnais, Shandelle M. Henson, R. F. Costantino, J. M. Cushing, and Brian Dennis
Science 27 September 2002: 2163.
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