This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Balancing Terror and Freedom

Donald Kennedy
Science 13 December 2002: 2091.
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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 13 December 2002: 2219-2220.

News of the Week

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Retreat From Torrey Mesa: A Chill Wind in Ag Research

Gretchen Vogel
Science 13 December 2002: 2106.
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AIR POLLUTION:
Counting the Cost of London's Killer Smog

Richard Stone
Science 13 December 2002: 2106-2107.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Particle Trap Confirms Antimatter Shuffle

Charles Seife
Science 13 December 2002: 2107-2109.
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GENETIC MODIFICATION:
Europe Prepares for Arrival of GM Foods

Philipp Weis
Science 13 December 2002: 2109-2110.
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CLIMATE:
River Flow Could Derail Crucial Ocean Current

Erik Stokstad
Science 13 December 2002: 2110.
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Report Seeks Answers to Marine Mystery

David Malakoff
Science 13 December 2002: 2110-2111.
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COMPARATIVE GENOMICS:
Tunicate Genome Shows a Little Backbone

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 13 December 2002: 2111-2112.
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RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE:
NSF Urged to Boost Spending on Facilities

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 13 December 2002: 2112.
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PATENTING LIFE:
Canadian High Court Rejects OncoMouse

Wayne Kondro
Science 13 December 2002: 2112-2113.
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GENE THERAPY:
RAC's Advice: Proceed With Caution

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 13 December 2002: 2113-2115.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
How a Pair Marries for the Eons

Richard A. Kerr
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GENE THERAPY:
The Strange Case of Chimeraplasty

Gary Taubes
Science 13 December 2002: 2116-2120.
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GENE THERAPY:
Pioneering Papers Under the Microscope

Gary Taubes
Science 13 December 2002: 2118-2119.
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FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE:
A Bridge Across the Mideast Divide

Jon Cohen
Science 13 December 2002: 2121.
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SEA-FLOOR ECOSYSTEMS:
Trawling's a Drag for Marine Life, Say Studies

David Malakoff
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission and ARVs

Sake J. de Vlas, Nico J. D. Nagelkerke, Prabhat Jha, and Frank A. Plummer
Science 13 December 2002: 2129.
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 Balancing Public Health and Civil Liberties

Lawrence O. Gostin, Jason W. Sapsin, Stephen P. Teret, Scott Burris, Julie Samia Mair, James G. Hodge, Jr., Jon S. Vernick;, Ronald Bayer, and James Colgrove
Science 13 December 2002: 2129.
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 Unisexual Clones: Lizards and Corals

Charles J. Cole;, Steven V. Vollmer, and Stephen R. Palumbi
Science 13 December 2002: 2130-2131.
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 Industry-Government Collaboration

Carol J. Henry
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

DEVELOPMENT:
Evo-Devo Branches Out

Vivian F. Irish
Science 13 December 2002: 2135-2136.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Everything You Want to Know and Moa

David W. Steadman
Science 13 December 2002: 2136-2137.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Nota Bene: The Scuttlebutt on Science

Guy Riddihough
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ETHICS:
Enhanced: Fair Benefits for Research in Developing Countries

Participants in the 2001 Conference on Ethical Aspects of Research in Developing Countries
Science 13 December 2002: 2133-2134.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Mental Models and Musical Minds

Robert J. Zatorre and Carol L. Krumhansl
Science 13 December 2002: 2138-2139.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Nanocubes and Nanoboxes

Catherine J. Murphy
Science 13 December 2002: 2139-2141.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Fishing Out a New Heart

Ian C. Scott and Didier Y. R. Stainier
Science 13 December 2002: 2141-2142.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Catalytic Antibody Bridges Innate and Adaptive Immunity

Carl Nathan
Science 13 December 2002: 2143-2144.
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ULTRACOLD MATTER:
The Quest for Superfluidity in Fermi Gases

Lev Pitaevskii and Sandro Stringari
Science 13 December 2002: 2144-2146.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY:
The Economics of Animal Cooperation

Michael Mesterton-Gibbons and Eldridge S. Adams
Science 13 December 2002: 2146-2147.
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GLACIOLOGY:
Ice Sheets on the Move

Charles F. Raymond
Science 13 December 2002: 2147-2148.
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Review

Antioxidants in Photosynthesis and Human Nutrition

Barbara Demmig-Adams and William W. Adams, III
Science 13 December 2002: 2149-2153.
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Brevia

 A Green Algal Apicoplast Ancestor

Soledad Funes, Edgar Davidson, Adrián Reyes-Prieto, Susana Magallón, Pascal Herion, Michael P. King, and Diego González-Halphen
Science 13 December 2002: 2155.
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Research Articles

The Draft Genome of Ciona intestinalis: Insights into Chordate and Vertebrate Origins

Paramvir Dehal, Yutaka Satou, Robert K. Campbell, Jarrod Chapman, Bernard Degnan, Anthony De Tomaso, Brad Davidson, Anna Di Gregorio, Maarten Gelpke, David M. Goodstein, Naoe Harafuji, Kenneth E. M. Hastings, Isaac Ho, Kohji Hotta, Wayne Huang, Takeshi Kawashima, Patrick Lemaire, Diego Martinez, Ian A. Meinertzhagen, Simona Necula, Masaru Nonaka, Nik Putnam, Sam Rash, Hidetoshi Saiga, Masanobu Satake, Astrid Terry, Lixy Yamada, Hong-Gang Wang, Satoko Awazu, Kaoru Azumi, Jeffrey Boore, Margherita Branno, Stephen Chin-bow, Rosaria DeSantis, Sharon Doyle, Pilar Francino, David N. Keys, Shinobu Haga, Hiroko Hayashi, Kyosuke Hino, Kaoru S. Imai, Kazuo Inaba, Shungo Kano, Kenji Kobayashi, Mari Kobayashi, Byung-In Lee, Kazuhiro W. Makabe, Chitra Manohar, Giorgio Matassi, Monica Medina, Yasuaki Mochizuki, Steve Mount, Tomomi Morishita, Sachiko Miura, Akie Nakayama, Satoko Nishizaka, Hisayo Nomoto, Fumiko Ohta, Kazuko Oishi, Isidore Rigoutsos, Masako Sano, Akane Sasaki, Yasunori Sasakura, Eiichi Shoguchi, Tadasu Shin-i, Antoinetta Spagnuolo, Didier Stainier, Miho M. Suzuki, Olivier Tassy, Naohito Takatori, Miki Tokuoka, Kasumi Yagi, Fumiko Yoshizaki, Shuichi Wada, Cindy Zhang, P. Douglas Hyatt, Frank Larimer, Chris Detter, Norman Doggett, Tijana Glavina, Trevor Hawkins, Paul Richardson, Susan Lucas, Yuji Kohara, Michael Levine, Nori Satoh, and Daniel S. Rokhsar
Science 13 December 2002: 2157-2167.
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The Cortical Topography of Tonal Structures Underlying Western Music

Petr Janata, Jeffrey L. Birk, John D. Van Horn, Marc Leman, Barbara Tillmann, and Jamshed J. Bharucha
Science 13 December 2002: 2167-2170.
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Reports

Increasing River Discharge to the Arctic Ocean

Bruce J. Peterson, Robert M. Holmes, James W. McClelland, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Richard B. Lammers, Alexander I. Shiklomanov, Igor A. Shiklomanov, and Stefan Rahmstorf
Science 13 December 2002: 2171-2173.
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Soil Warming and Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks to the Climate System

J. M. Melillo, P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens, and S. Morrisseau
Science 13 December 2002: 2173-2176.
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Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Gold and Silver Nanoparticles

Yugang Sun and Younan Xia
Science 13 December 2002: 2176-2179.
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Observation of a Strongly Interacting Degenerate Fermi Gas of Atoms

K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J. E. Thomas
Science 13 December 2002: 2179-2182.
Published online 7 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1079107] (in Science Express Reports)
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Short-Lived Nuclides in Hibonite Grains from Murchison: Evidence for Solar System Evolution

K. K. Marhas, J. N. Goswami, and A. M. Davis
Science 13 December 2002: 2182-2185.
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A Late Triassic Impact Ejecta Layer in Southwestern Britain

Gordon Walkden, Julian Parker, and Simon Kelley
Science 13 December 2002: 2185-2188.
Published online 14 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076249] (in Science Express Reports)
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Heart Regeneration in Zebrafish

Kenneth D. Poss, Lindsay G. Wilson, and Mark T. Keating
Science 13 December 2002: 2188-2190.
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Experimental Identification of Downhill Protein Folding

Maria M. Garcia-Mira, Mourad Sadqi, Niels Fischer, Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz, and Victor Muñoz
Science 13 December 2002: 2191-2195.
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Evidence for Antibody-Catalyzed Ozone Formation in Bacterial Killing and Inflammation

Paul Wentworth, Jr., Jonathan E. McDunn, Anita D. Wentworth, Cindy Takeuchi, Jorge Nieva, Teresa Jones, Cristina Bautista, Julie M. Ruedi, Abel Gutierrez, Kim D. Janda, Bernard M. Babior, Albert Eschenmoser, and Richard A. Lerner
Science 13 December 2002: 2195-2199.
Published online 14 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1077642] (in Science Express Reports)
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Maintenance of Serological Memory by Polyclonal Activation of Human Memory B Cells

Nadia L. Bernasconi, Elisabetta Traggiai, and Antonio Lanzavecchia
Science 13 December 2002: 2199-2202.
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Rainfall Variability, Carbon Cycling, and Plant Species Diversity in a Mesic Grassland

Alan K. Knapp, Philip A. Fay, John M. Blair, Scott L. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, Jonathan D. Carlisle, Christopher W. Harper, Brett T. Danner, Michelle S. Lett, and James K. McCarron
Science 13 December 2002: 2202-2205.
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Small Nuclear Ribonucleoprotein Remodeling During Catalytic Activation of the Spliceosome

Evgeny M. Makarov, Olga V. Makarova, Henning Urlaub, Marc Gentzel, Cindy L. Will, Matthias Wilm, and Reinhard Lührmann
Science 13 December 2002: 2205-2208.
Published online 31 October 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1077783] (in Science Express Reports)
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Alcohol Consumption Impairs Detection of Performance Errors in Mediofrontal Cortex

K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Yolande de Vlugt, Aldo Bramlage, Marcus Spaan, Martin Elton, Jan Snel, and Guido P. H. Band
Science 13 December 2002: 2209-2211.
Published online 7 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076929] (in Science Express Reports)
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Role of Melanopsin in Circadian Responses to Light

Norman F. Ruby, Thomas J. Brennan, Xinmin Xie, Vinh Cao, Paul Franken, H. Craig Heller, and Bruce F. O'Hara
Science 13 December 2002: 2211-2213.
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Melanopsin (Opn4) Requirement for Normal Light-Induced Circadian Phase Shifting

Satchidananda Panda, Trey K. Sato, Ana Maria Castrucci, Mark D. Rollag, Willem J. DeGrip, John B. Hogenesch, Ignacio Provencio, and Steve A. Kay
Science 13 December 2002: 2213-2216.
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Discounting and Reciprocity in an Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma

D. W. Stephens, C. M. McLinn, and J. R. Stevens
Science 13 December 2002: 2216-2218.
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