This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Two Cultures

Donald Kennedy
Science 21 February 2003: 1148.
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Editorial:
Statement on Scientific Publication and Security

Journal Editors and Authors Group
Science 21 February 2003: 1149.
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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 21 February 2003: 1244-1245.

News of the Week

2003 BUDGET:
Science Agencies Get Most of What They Want, Finally

David Malakoff
Science 21 February 2003: 1160-1161.
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SPACE RESEARCH:
Amid Troubles, Station Science Gains a Center

Andrew Lawler
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Snooty Exchanges Are Key to Mouse Society

Greg Miller
Science 21 February 2003: 1163.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Primitive Jawed Fishes Had Teeth of Their Own Design

Erik Stokstad
Science 21 February 2003: 1164.
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MICROBIAL FORENSICS:
Report Spells Out How to Fight Biocrimes

Martin Enserink and Dan Ferber
Science 21 February 2003: 1164-1165.
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EVOLUTION:
How Global Change Shaped the Squirrel Family

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 February 2003: 1165-1167.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
MIT Broadens Minority-Only Programs

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 February 2003: 1167.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEXT LINEAR COLLIDER:
Collision Course With Reality

Adrian Cho
Science 21 February 2003: 1168-1171.
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NEXT LINEAR COLLIDER:
Why Physicists Long for the Straight and Narrow

Charles Seife
Science 21 February 2003: 1171-1172.
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NEXT LINEAR COLLIDER:
One Collider, Many Countries: How to Share the Wealth?

Daniel Clery
Science 21 February 2003: 1173.
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BIOTERRORISM:
Security Rules Leave Labs Wanting More Guidance

David Malakoff
Science 21 February 2003: 1175.
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WEST NILE VIRUS:
Researchers Scramble to Track Virus's Impact on Wildlife

David Malakoff
Science 21 February 2003: 1176.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE MEETING:
Gravity Waves Elude First Scrutiny

Charles Seife
Science 21 February 2003: 1177.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE MEETING:
Subterranean Coal Fires Spark Disaster

Kathryn Brown
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 The Ever-Elusive Liberal Education

Carl Mitcham, Richard Olson;, Christopher Miller;, and Timothy Goldsmith
Science 21 February 2003: 1182-1183.
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 A Part of the Human Genome Sequence

J. Craig Venter
Science 21 February 2003: 1183-1184.
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 Scientists and the Venezuelan Crisis

Venezuelan Association Board of Directors for the Advancement of Science, Klaus Jaffe, Reinaldo Di Polo, José Cardier, Ricardo Rios, Rene Utrera, Morella Rodriguez, Luis Briceño Zoppi, Ana Maria Rojas, Alicia Ponte, Benjamin Scharifker, and Manuel Bemporad
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MUSIC:
Coaxing Sounds from Circuits

Tod Machover
Science 21 February 2003: 1185-1186.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

AGRICULTURE:
Science for African Food Security

Gordon Conway and Gary Toenniessen
Science 21 February 2003: 1187-1188.
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Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Enhanced: Molecular Prodigality

Dennis Bray
Science 21 February 2003: 1189-1190.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Capturing Polo Kinase

Herman H. W. Silljé and Erich A. Nigg
Science 21 February 2003: 1190-1191.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
A Bright Bio-Inspired Future

Trevor Douglas
Science 21 February 2003: 1192-1193.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Encore Olduvai

Phillip V. Tobias
Science 21 February 2003: 1193-1194.
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Brevia

 Experience-Dependent Plasticity for Auditory Processing in a Raptor

Alberto Palleroni and Marc Hauser
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Research Article

Encoding Pheromonal Signals in the Accessory Olfactory Bulb of Behaving Mice

Minmin Luo, Michale S. Fee, and Lawrence C. Katz
Science 21 February 2003: 1196-1201.
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Reports

Gigahertz Electron Spin Manipulation Using Voltage-Controlled g-Tensor Modulation

Y. Kato, R. C. Myers, D. C. Driscoll, A. C. Gossard, J. Levy, and D. D. Awschalom
Science 21 February 2003: 1201-1204.
Published online 23 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1080880] (in Science Express Reports)
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Direct Fabrication of Large Micropatterned Single Crystals

Joanna Aizenberg, David A. Muller, John L. Grazul, and D. R. Hamann
Science 21 February 2003: 1205-1208.
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Giant Supramolecular Liquid Crystal Lattice

Goran Ungar, Yongsong Liu, Xiangbing Zeng, Virgil Percec, and Wook-Dong Cho
Science 21 February 2003: 1208-1211.
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A Discrete Self-Assembled Metal Array in Artificial DNA

Kentaro Tanaka, Atsushi Tengeiji, Tatsuhisa Kato, Namiki Toyama, and Mitsuhiko Shionoya
Science 21 February 2003: 1212-1213.
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Molecular Fossil Record of Elevated Methane Levels in Late Pleistocene Coastal Waters

Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Laura R. Hmelo, and Sean P. Sylva
Science 21 February 2003: 1214-1217.
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Late Pliocene Homo and Hominid Land Use from Western Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

Robert J. Blumenschine, Charles R. Peters, Fidelis T. Masao, Ronald J. Clarke, Alan L. Deino, Richard L. Hay, Carl C. Swisher, Ian G. Stanistreet, Gail M. Ashley, Lindsay J. McHenry, Nancy E. Sikes, Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, Joanne C. Tactikos, Amy E. Cushing, Daniel M. Deocampo, Jackson K. Njau, and James I. Ebert
Science 21 February 2003: 1217-1221.
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Positional Cloning of the Human Quantitative Trait Locus Underlying Taste Sensitivity to Phenylthiocarbamide

Un-kyung Kim, Eric Jorgenson, Hilary Coon, Mark Leppert, Neil Risch, and Dennis Drayna
Science 21 February 2003: 1221-1225.
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Impact of Genetic Manipulation on the Fitness of Anopheles stephensi Mosquitoes

Flaminia Catteruccia, H. Charles J. Godfray, and Andrea Crisanti
Science 21 February 2003: 1225-1227.
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Proteomic Screen Finds pSer/pThr-Binding Domain Localizing Plk1 to Mitotic Substrates

Andrew E. H. Elia, Lewis C. Cantley, and Michael B. Yaffe
Science 21 February 2003: 1228-1231.
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Spontaneous Cell Polarization Through Actomyosin-Based Delivery of the Cdc42 GTPase

Roland Wedlich-Soldner, Steve Altschuler, Lani Wu, and Rong Li
Science 21 February 2003: 1231-1235.
Published online 30 January 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1080944] (in Science Express Reports)
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Separate Evolutionary Origins of Teeth from Evidence in Fossil Jawed Vertebrates

Moya Meredith Smith and Zerina Johanson
Science 21 February 2003: 1235-1236.
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Synaptic Plasticity in Spinal Lamina I Projection Neurons That Mediate Hyperalgesia

Hiroshi Ikeda, Bernhard Heinke, Ruth Ruscheweyh, and Jürgen Sandkühler
Science 21 February 2003: 1237-1240.
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COMT val¹⁵⁸met Genotype Affects µ-Opioid Neurotransmitter Responses to a Pain Stressor

Jon-Kar Zubieta, Mary M. Heitzeg, Yolanda R. Smith, Joshua A. Bueller, Ke Xu, Yanjun Xu, Robert A. Koeppe, Christian S. Stohler, and David Goldman
Science 21 February 2003: 1240-1243.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Failure of Bone Marrow Cells to Transdifferentiate into Neural Cells in Vivo"

Éva Mezey, Andras Nagy, Ildiko Szalayova, Sharon Key, Andras Bratincsak, Judit Baffi, and Tal Shahar
Science 21 February 2003: 1184.
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 Response to Comment on "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
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