This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Climate Divide

Donald Kennedy
Science 21 March 2003: 1813.
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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 March 2003: 1907-1908.

News of the Week

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Scientists Chase Fast-Moving and Deadly Global Illness

Martin Enserink
Science 21 March 2003: 1822.
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FEDERAL WORK FORCE:
Can Outsiders Do Better in Managing NIH Grants?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 March 2003: 1823.
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FRANCE:
New Cuts Slam Most Research Agencies

Barbara Casassus
Science 21 March 2003: 1823-1824.
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WEST NILE VIRUS:
Blood Banks in a 'Race Against the Mosquitoes'

Jennifer Couzin
Science 21 March 2003: 1824.
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MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Congress Lets States Share the Wealth

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 March 2003: 1825.
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AGROBIOTECHNOLOGY:
Foundation Goes to Bat for African Farmers

Erik Stokstad
Science 21 March 2003: 1825-1826.
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STATE-BASED INITIATIVES:
Rising Deficits Could Doom Science Programs

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 March 2003: 1826.
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NASA SCIENCE PROBE:
Gravity Mission Faces Make-or-Break Review

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 March 2003: 1827-1829.
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ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH:
Academy to Mediate Debate Over Rocket-Fuel Contaminants

Rebecca Renner
Science 21 March 2003: 1829.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Stem Cells Lose Market Luster

Gretchen Vogel
Science 21 March 2003: 1830-1831.
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GRADUATE EDUCATION:
New Asian Schools Look West for High-Quality Instruction

Dennis Normile
Science 21 March 2003: 1832-1833.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Robotic Telescopes Catch Up With Gamma Ray Bursts

Robert Irion
Science 21 March 2003: 1833-1834.
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CONSERVATION:
Unwelcome Bison May Face a DNA Test

Anne Minard
Science 21 March 2003: 1835.
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ECONOMICS:
How Much Are Human Lives and Health Worth?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 March 2003: 1836-1837.
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ECONOMICS:
Wielding the Data-Quality Cudgel

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 March 2003: 1837.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 A Risky Forest Policy in the Amazon?

Frank D. Merry, Gregory S. Amacher, Eirivelthon Lima, Daniel C. Nepstad;, Adalberto Veríssimo, and Mark A. Cochrane
Science 21 March 2003: 1843.
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 The EU and the Dinosaur

Mike Fainzilber
Science 21 March 2003: 1843-1844.
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 Assessing Environmental Changes in Grasslands

Charles E. Mitchell, Peter B. Reich;, Jesse H. Ausubel, Paul E. Waggoner;, Christopher B. Field, M. Rebecca Shaw, Harold A. Mooney, Erika S. Zavaleta, Nona R. Chiariello, and Elsa E. Cleland
Science 21 March 2003: 1844-1845.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF PHYSICS:
Two Nobel Prizes and a Hole-in-One

Leon Cooper
Science 21 March 2003: 1846.
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INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY:
Sorting Sponges

Joseph Pawlik
Science 21 March 2003: 1846-1847.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CONSERVATION:
Fate of Iraqi Archaeology

McGuire Gibson
Science 21 March 2003: 1848-1849.
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Perspectives

PHYSICS:
Flux Qubit Completes the Hat Trick

John Clarke
Science 21 March 2003: 1850-1851.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Enhanced: Overkill and Sustainable Use

Martyn Murray
Science 21 March 2003: 1851-1853.
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BOTANY:
Relieving DELLA Restraint

Nicholas P. Harberd
Science 21 March 2003: 1853-1854.
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EVOLUTION:
Wingless Insects and Plucked Chickens

Richard H. Thomas
Science 21 March 2003: 1854-1855.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Sandbars in Motion

Marcel J. F. Stive and Ad J. H. M. Reniers
Science 21 March 2003: 1855-1856.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Gambling on Dopamine

Peter Shizgal and Andreas Arvanitogiannis
Science 21 March 2003: 1856-1858.
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Review

Signaling Life and Death in the Thymus: Timing Is Everything

Guy Werlen, Barbara Hausmann, Dieter Naeher, and Ed Palmer
Science 21 March 2003: 1859-1863.
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Brevia

 Imperceptible Stimuli and Sensory Processing Impediment

Felix Blankenburg, Birol Taskin, Jan Ruben, Matthias Moosmann, Petra Ritter, Gabriel Curio, and Arno Villringer
Science 21 March 2003: 1864.
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Research Article

Swimming in Spacetime: Motion by Cyclic Changes in Body Shape

Jack Wisdom
Science 21 March 2003: 1865-1869.
Published online 27 February 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1081406] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Coherent Quantum Dynamics of a Superconducting Flux Qubit

I. Chiorescu, Y. Nakamura, C. J. P. M. Harmans, and J. E. Mooij
Science 21 March 2003: 1869-1871.
Published online 13 February 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1081045] (in Science Express Reports)
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Templating Organic Semiconductors via Self-Assembly of Polymer Colloids

Raffaele Mezzenga, Janne Ruokolainen, Glenn H. Fredrickson, Edward J. Kramer, Daniel Moses, Alan J. Heeger, and Olli Ikkala
Science 21 March 2003: 1872-1874.
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Small-Diameter Silicon Nanowire Surfaces

D. D. D. Ma, C. S. Lee, F. C. K. Au, S. Y. Tong, and S. T. Lee
Science 21 March 2003: 1874-1877.
Published online 20 February 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1080313] (in Science Express Reports)
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"Plugging into Enzymes": Nanowiring of Redox Enzymes by a Gold Nanoparticle

Yi Xiao, Fernando Patolsky, Eugenii Katz, James F. Hainfeld, and Itamar Willner
Science 21 March 2003: 1877-1881.
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Self-Aligned, Vertical-Channel, Polymer Field-Effect Transistors

Natalie Stutzmann, Richard H. Friend, and Henning Sirringhaus
Science 21 March 2003: 1881-1884.
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Wave-Induced Sediment Transport and Sandbar Migration

Fernanda Hoefel and Steve Elgar
Science 21 March 2003: 1885-1887.
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Hexapod Origins: Monophyletic or Paraphyletic?

Francesco Nardi, Giacomo Spinsanti, Jeffrey L. Boore, Antonio Carapelli, Romano Dallai, and Francesco Frati
Science 21 March 2003: 1887-1889.
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Role of EphA4 and EphrinB3 in Local Neuronal Circuits That Control Walking

Klas Kullander, Simon J. B. Butt, James M. Lebret, Line Lundfald, Carlos E. Restrepo, Anna Rydström, Rüdiger Klein, and Ole Kiehn
Science 21 March 2003: 1889-1892.
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Identifying Kinetic Barriers to Mechanical Unfolding of the T. thermophila Ribozyme

Bibiana Onoa, Sophie Dumont, Jan Liphardt, Steven B. Smith, Ignacio Tinoco, Jr., and Carlos Bustamante
Science 21 March 2003: 1892-1895.
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Accumulation of Phosphorylated Repressor for Gibberellin Signaling in an F-box Mutant

Akie Sasaki, Hironori Itoh, Kenji Gomi, Miyako Ueguchi-Tanaka, Kanako Ishiyama, Masatomo Kobayashi, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Gynheung An, Hidemi Kitano, Motoyuki Ashikari, and Makoto Matsuoka
Science 21 March 2003: 1896-1898.
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Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons

Christopher D. Fiorillo, Philippe N. Tobler, and Wolfram Schultz
Science 21 March 2003: 1898-1902.
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Identified Sources and Targets of Slow Inhibition in the Neocortex

Gábor Tamás, Andrea Lrincz, Anna Simon, and János Szabadics
Science 21 March 2003: 1902-1905.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "The Influence of the Proinflammatory Cytokine, Osteopontin, on Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease"

Thomas Blom, Ahnders Franzén, Dick Heinegård, and Rikard Holmdahl
Science 21 March 2003: 1845.
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 Response to Comment on "The Influence of the Proinflammatory Cytokine, Osteopontin, on Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease"

Lawrence Steinman, Sawsan Youssef, Natalie Van Venrooij, Dorothée Chabas, Sergio E. Baranzini, Susan Rittling, David Denhardt, Raymond A. Sobel, Christopher Lock, Rosetta Pedotti, and Jorge R. Oksenberg
Science 21 March 2003: 1845.
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