Breakthrough of the Year

News

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Small RNAs Make Big Splash

Jennifer Couzin
Science 20 December 2002: 2296-2297.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
The Runners-Up

The News and Editorial Staffs
Science 20 December 2002: 2297-2303.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Areas to Watch in 2003

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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Scorecard 2002

Science 20 December 2002: 2299.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Bioterrorism: The Calm After the Storm

Martin Enserink
Science 20 December 2002: 2300.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Breakdown of the Year: Physics Fraud

Robert F. Service
Science 20 December 2002: 2303.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Breakthrough of the Year

Donald Kennedy
Science 20 December 2002: 2283.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 20 December 2002: 2405-2406.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 20 December 2002: 2409-2411.

News of the Week

BIOLOGICAL AGENTS:
New U.S. Rules Set the Stage for Tighter Security, Oversight

David Malakoff
Science 20 December 2002: 2304.
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CALIFORNIA BUDGET:
Latest Cuts Send Universities Reeling

Andrew Lawler
Science 20 December 2002: 2305.
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SCIENCE AND SECURITY:
Academy Asks to Ease Visas for Scholars

David Malakoff
Science 20 December 2002: 2305-2307.
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STEM CELL MEDICINE:
Stanford Gets Gift for New Institute

Constance Holden
Science 20 December 2002: 2307-2308.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
Italian Researchers Facing Lean Times

Alexander Hellemans
Science 20 December 2002: 2308.
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2004 BUDGET:
No Holiday Cheer for NIH, NSF

Jeffrey Mervis and Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 December 2002: 2308-2309.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
CERN Council Chooses ITER's Head as Chief

Charles Seife
Science 20 December 2002: 2309-2311.
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ASTRONOMY:
Europe's Telescope Builders Aim High

Govert Schilling
Science 20 December 2002: 2311.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Rough-and-Tumble Behind Bush's Smallpox Policy

Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink
Science 20 December 2002: 2312-2316.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Treating Vaccine Reactions: Two Lifelines, But No Guarantees

Martin Enserink
Science 20 December 2002: 2313.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Looking for Vaccines That Pack a Wallop Without the Side Effects

Jon Cohen
Science 20 December 2002: 2314.
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TRANSGENIC CROPS:
China Takes a Bumpy Road From the Lab to the Field

Ding Yimin and Jeffrey Mervis
Science 20 December 2002: 2317-2319.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Armenia Uncovers a Bronze Age Treasure Trove

Richard Stone
Science 20 December 2002: 2319-2320.
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ANIMAL MODELS:
Can a Mouse Be Standardized?

John Bohannon
Science 20 December 2002: 2320-2321.
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ANIMAL MODELS:
To Build a Better Mouse Cage

John Bohannon
Science 20 December 2002: 2321.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Biology Offers Nanotechs a Helping Hand

Robert F. Service
Science 20 December 2002: 2322-2323.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 20 December 2002: 2327.
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 Retraction

Stephen T. Davis, Bill G. Benson, H. Neal Bramson, Dennis E. Chapman, Scott H. Dickerson, Karen M. Dold, Derek J. Eberwein, Mark Edelstein, Stephen V. Frye, Robert T. Gampe, Jr., Robert J. Griffin, Philip A. Harris, Anne M. Hassell, William D. Holmes, Robert N. Hunter, Victoria B. Knick, Karen Lackey, Brett Lovejoy, Michael J. Luzzio, Doris Murray, Patricia Parker, Warren J. Rocque, Lisa Shewchuk-Chapman, James M. Veal, Duncan H. Walker, and Lee F. Kuyper
Science 20 December 2002: 2327.
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 The Discovery of the Electric Shock

Bodil Holst and N. Zimmer
Science 20 December 2002: 2327-2328.
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 The Paucity of Grants Among Young Scientists

Carl Djerassi;, Lance Nizami;, Damian J. McColl;, and Peter Campbell
Science 20 December 2002: 2328-2329.
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 Phage Biology: Coming of Age

Carl A. Schnaitman
Science 20 December 2002: 2329.
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Books et al.

ART:
Swept Into the Modern Along with Science

Ezra Shahn
Science 20 December 2002: 2333-2334.
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PHILOSOPHY:
Reason and Passion in Bioethics

Onora O'Neill
Science 20 December 2002: 2335.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
A Polish, Jewish Scientist in 19th-Century Prussia

David Lagunoff
Science 20 December 2002: 2331.
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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Strengthening the FDA

Michael A. Friedman
Science 20 December 2002: 2332.
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Perspectives

OSCILLATING SYSTEMS:
On Emerging Coherence

Arthur T. Winfree
Science 20 December 2002: 2336-2337.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
LDL Receptor's b-Propeller Displaces LDL

Thomas L. Innerarity
Science 20 December 2002: 2337-2339.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
Carbon Monoxide and Clocks

Darren Boehning and Solomon H. Snyder
Science 20 December 2002: 2339-2340.
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GEOLOGY:
Earth's Early Atmosphere

Uwe H. Wiechert
Science 20 December 2002: 2341-2342.
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HUMAN GENETICS:
Mapping Human History

Mary-Claire King and Arno G. Motulsky
Science 20 December 2002: 2342-2343.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Enhanced: Ups and Downs of CO2 Uptake

Paul Quay
Science 20 December 2002: 2344.
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Tech.Sight

BIOELECTRONICS:
Biomaterials for Sensors, Fuel Cells, and Circuitry

Itamar Willner
Science 20 December 2002: 2407-2408.
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Review

Finding Genes That Underlie Complex Traits

Anne M. Glazier, Joseph H. Nadeau, and Timothy J. Aitman
Science 20 December 2002: 2345-2349.
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Brevia

 Neoarchean Biomineralization by Benthic Cyanobacteria

Józef Kazmierczak and Wladyslaw Altermann
Science 20 December 2002: 2351.
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Research Article

Structure of the LDL Receptor Extracellular Domain at Endosomal pH

Gabby Rudenko, Lisa Henry, Keith Henderson, Konstantin Ichtchenko, Michael S. Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Johann Deisenhofer
Science 20 December 2002: 2353-2358.
Published online 29 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1078124] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Formation of a One-Dimensional Array of Oxygen in a Microporous Metal-Organic Solid

Ryo Kitaura, Susumu Kitagawa, Yoshiki Kubota, Tatsuo C. Kobayashi, Koichi Kindo, Yoshimi Mita, Akira Matsuo, Michihiro Kobayashi, Ho-Chol Chang, Tadashi C. Ozawa, Megumi Suzuki, Makoto Sakata, and Masaki Takata
Science 20 December 2002: 2358-2361.
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Structure-Assigned Optical Spectra of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Sergei M. Bachilo, Michael S. Strano, Carter Kittrell, Robert H. Hauge, Richard E. Smalley, and R. Bruce Weisman
Science 20 December 2002: 2361-2366.
Published online 29 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1078727] (in Science Express Reports)
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Microporous and Photoluminescent Chalcogenide Zeolite Analogs

Nanfeng Zheng, Xianhui Bu, Bing Wang, and Pingyun Feng
Science 20 December 2002: 2366-2369.
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Mass-Independent Sulfur of Inclusions in Diamond and Sulfur Recycling on Early Earth

J. Farquhar, B. A. Wing, K. D. McKeegan, J. W. Harris, P. Cartigny, and M. H. Thiemens
Science 20 December 2002: 2369-2372.
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Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean

Kirsten S. Habicht, Michael Gade, Bo Thamdrup, Peter Berg, and Donald E. Canfield
Science 20 December 2002: 2372-2374.
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Interannual Variability in the North Atlantic Ocean Carbon Sink

Nicolas Gruber, Charles D. Keeling, and Nicholas R. Bates
Science 20 December 2002: 2374-2378.
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Control of Facial Muscle Development by MyoR and Capsulin

Jian-rong Lu, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, April Hawkins, Priscilla Chang, Renee Valdez, Hai Wu, Lin Gan, John M. Shelton, James A. Richardson, and Eric N. Olson
Science 20 December 2002: 2378-2381.
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Genetic Structure of Human Populations

Noah A. Rosenberg, Jonathan K. Pritchard, James L. Weber, Howard M. Cann, Kenneth K. Kidd, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, and Marcus W. Feldman
Science 20 December 2002: 2381-2385.
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NPAS2: A Gas-Responsive Transcription Factor

Elhadji M. Dioum, Jared Rutter, Jason R. Tuckerman, Gonzalo Gonzalez, Marie-Alda Gilles-Gonzalez, and Steven L. McKnight
Science 20 December 2002: 2385-2387.
Published online 20 November 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1078456] (in Science Express Reports)
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CREM-Dependent Transcription in Male Germ Cells Controlled by a Kinesin

Betina Macho, Stefano Brancorsini, Gian Maria Fimia, Mitsutoshi Setou, Nobutaka Hirokawa, and Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Science 20 December 2002: 2388-2390.
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Sir2-Dependent Activation of Acetyl-CoA Synthetase by Deacetylation of Active Lysine

V. J. Starai, I. Celic, R. N. Cole, J. D. Boeke, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena
Science 20 December 2002: 2390-2392.
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A Distinct Signaling Pathway Used by the IgG-Containing B Cell Antigen Receptor

Chisato Wakabayashi, Takahiro Adachi, Jürgen Wienands, and Takeshi Tsubata
Science 20 December 2002: 2392-2395.
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Photosynthetic Light Harvesting by Carotenoids: Detection of an Intermediate Excited State

G. Cerullo, D. Polli, G. Lanzani, S. De Silvestri, H. Hashimoto, and R. J. Cogdell
Science 20 December 2002: 2395-2398.
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Rates of Behavior and Aging Specified by Mitochondrial Function During Development

Andrew Dillin, Ao-Lin Hsu, Nuno Arantes-Oliveira, Joshua Lehrer-Graiwer, Honor Hsin, Andrew G. Fraser, Ravi S. Kamath, Julie Ahringer, and Cynthia Kenyon
Science 20 December 2002: 2398-2401.
Published online 5 December 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1077780] (in Science Express Reports)
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Coordinated Nonvectorial Folding in a Newly Synthesized Multidomain Protein

Annemieke Jansens, Esther van Duijn, and Ineke Braakman
Science 20 December 2002: 2401-2403.
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Technical Comments

 Is Schizophrenia Linked to Chromosome 1q?

Stuart Macgregor, Peter M. Visscher, Sara Knott, David Porteous, Walter Muir, Kirsty Millar, Douglas Blackwood, Anne S. Bassett, Eva W. C. Chow, Veronica J. Vieland, Linda Brzustowicz, Douglas F. Levinson, Peter A. Holmans, Claudine Laurent, Jacques Mallet, Brien Riley, Kenneth S. Kendler, Ann E. Pulver, Pablo V. Gejman, Alan R. Sanders, Sibylle G. Schwab, Dieter B. Wildenauer, Michael J. Owen, and Bryan J. Mowry
Science 20 December 2002: 2277.
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