This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Personalized Health Planning

R. Sanders Williams, Huntington F. Willard, and Ralph Snyderman
Science 25 April 2003: 549.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 25 April 2003: 551.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 25 April 2003: 557.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 25 April 2003: 604-605.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 25 April 2003: 657.

News of the Week

SARS OUTBREAK:
Modelers Struggle to Grasp Epidemic's Potential Scope

Gretchen Vogel
Science 25 April 2003: 558-559.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Picking Up the Pieces of Iraqi Antiquities

Andrew Lawler
Science 25 April 2003: 559-561.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Hungry Ewes Deliver Offspring Early

Greg Miller
Science 25 April 2003: 561-562.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Great Age Suggested for South African Hominids

Ann Gibbons
Science 25 April 2003: 562.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Tying Genetics to the Risk of Environmental Diseases

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 25 April 2003: 563.
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EASTERN EUROPE:
F-16 Deal Lifts Polish Science

Gretchen Vogel
Science 25 April 2003: 565.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH:
Keck Gives $40 Million for Academies Initiative

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 25 April 2003: 565.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ECOLOGY:
An Intimate Knowledge of Trees

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 25 April 2003: 566-567.
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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE:
Fear and Trembling in the Amygdala

Laura Helmuth
Science 25 April 2003: 568-569.
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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
ESA and the European Union: A Marriage Made in the Heavens?

Giselle Weiss
Science 25 April 2003: 571-572.
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ETHICS:
Revisiting a 1930s Scandal, AACR to Rename a Prize

Douglas Starr
Science 25 April 2003: 573-574.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Canceling Grants, VA Research Chief Shakes the System

Jennifer Couzin
Science 25 April 2003: 574-575.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 25 April 2003: 581.
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 Planning for Future Energy Resources

Brian O'Neill, Arnulf Grübler, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Michael Obersteiner, Keywan Riahi, Leo Schrattenholzer, Ferenc Toth;, Richard D. Wilson, Robert Krakowski;, Rob Swart, Jose Roberto Moreira, Tsuneyuki Morita, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, Hugh Pitcher, Hans-Holger Rogner;, Martin I. Hoffert, Ken Caldeira, Gregory Benford, Tyler Volk, David R. Criswell, Christopher Green, Howard Herzog, Atul K. Jain, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Klaus S. Lackner, John S. Lewis, H. Douglas Lightfoot, Wallace Manheimer, L. John Perkins, Michael E. Schlesinger, and Tom M. L. Wigley
Science 25 April 2003: 581-584.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 25 April 2003: 584.
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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
A User's Guide to Life

Nathan J. Emery
Science 25 April 2003: 585-586.
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 Browsings

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REFERENCE:
Nota Bene: A Call to Arms

Monique Martineau
Science 25 April 2003: 586.
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 Books Received

Science 25 April 2003: 586.

Policy Forum

CONSERVATION:
Caffeine and Conservation

Timothy G. O'Brien and Margaret F. Kinnaird
Science 25 April 2003: 587.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
Enhanced: Darwin's Hummingbirds

Douglas L. Altshuler and Christopher James Clark
Science 25 April 2003: 588-589.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Toward Integrated Reconstruction of Past Climates

Kevin E. Trenberth and Bette L. Otto-Bliesner
Science 25 April 2003: 589-590.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Creating Transient Crystal Structures with Light

Craig W. Siders and Andrea Cavalleri
Science 25 April 2003: 591-592.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
An Overoxidation Journey with a Return Ticket

George Georgiou and Lluis Masip
Science 25 April 2003: 592-594.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Fishing at the Cell Surface

James L. Maller
Science 25 April 2003: 594-595.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhancing Drug Function

Jeffrey A. Hubbell
Science 25 April 2003: 595-596.
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Review

Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions

Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood
Science 25 April 2003: 597-603.
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Brevia

 A Periconceptional Nutritional Origin for Noninfectious Preterm Birth

Frank H. Bloomfield, Mark H. Oliver, Paul Hawkins, Melanie Campbell, David J. Phillips, Peter D. Gluckman, John R. G. Challis, and Jane E. Harding
Science 25 April 2003: 606.
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Research Article

Lower Pliocene Hominid Remains from Sterkfontein

T. C. Partridge, D. E. Granger, M. W. Caffee, and R. J. Clarke
Science 25 April 2003: 607-612.
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Reports

Laser-Induced Ferroelectric Structural Order in an Organic Charge-Transfer Crystal

Eric Collet, Marie-Hélene Lemée-Cailleau, Marylise Buron-Le Cointe, Hervé Cailleau, Michael Wulff, Tadeusz Luty, Shin-Ya Koshihara, Mathias Meyer, Loic Toupet, Philippe Rabiller, and Simone Techert
Science 25 April 2003: 612-615.
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Micellar Nanocontainers Distribute to Defined Cytoplasmic Organelles

Radoslav Savic, Laibin Luo, Adi Eisenberg, and Dusica Maysinger
Science 25 April 2003: 615-618.
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The Glass-to-Glass Transition and Its End Point in a Copolymer Micellar System

Sow-Hsin Chen, Wei-Ren Chen, and Francesco Mallamace
Science 25 April 2003: 619-622.
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All-Metal Antiaromatic Molecule: Rectangular Al₄^4- in the Li₃Al₄^- Anion

Aleksey E. Kuznetsov, K. Alexander Birch, Alexander I. Boldyrev, Xi Li, Hua-Jin Zhai, and Lai-Sheng Wang
Science 25 April 2003: 622-625.
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Casting Metal Nanowires Within Discrete Self-Assembled Peptide Nanotubes

Meital Reches and Ehud Gazit
Science 25 April 2003: 625-627.
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Evidence for the Exposure of Water Ice on Titan's Surface

Caitlin A. Griffith, Tobias Owen, Thomas R. Geballe, John Rayner, and Pascal Rannou
Science 25 April 2003: 628-630.
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Adaptation in a Plant-Hummingbird Association

Ethan J. Temeles and W. John Kress
Science 25 April 2003: 630-633.
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Roles of NPM2 in Chromatin and Nucleolar Organization in Oocytes and Embryos

Kathleen H. Burns, Maria M. Viveiros, Yongsheng Ren, Pei Wang, Francesco J. DeMayo, Donald E. Frail, John J. Eppig, and Martin M. Matzuk
Science 25 April 2003: 633-636.
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Initiation and Synergistic Fibrillization of Tau and Alpha-Synuclein

Benoit I. Giasson, Mark S. Forman, Makoto Higuchi, Lawrence I. Golbe, Charles L. Graves, Paul T. Kotzbauer, John Q. Trojanowski, and Virginia M.-Y. Lee
Science 25 April 2003: 636-640.
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Balancing Selection at the Prion Protein Gene Consistent with Prehistoric Kurulike Epidemics

Simon Mead, Michael P. H. Stumpf, Jerome Whitfield, Jonathan A. Beck, Mark Poulter, Tracy Campbell, James B. Uphill, David Goldstein, Michael Alpers, Elizabeth M. C. Fisher, and John Collinge
Science 25 April 2003: 640-643.
Published online 10 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083320] (in Science Express Reports)
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DAF-16 Target Genes That Control C. elegans Life-Span and Metabolism

Siu Sylvia Lee, Scott Kennedy, Andrew C. Tolonen, and Gary Ruvkun
Science 25 April 2003: 644-647.
Published online 10 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083614] (in Science Express Reports)
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Requirement of Cks2 for the First Metaphase/Anaphase Transition of Mammalian Meiosis

Charles H. Spruck, Maria P. de Miguel, Adrian P. L. Smith, Aimee Ryan, Paula Stein, Richard M. Schultz, A. Jeannine Lincoln, Peter J. Donovan, and Steven I. Reed
Science 25 April 2003: 647-650.
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Peroxiredoxin Evolution and the Regulation of Hydrogen Peroxide Signaling

Zachary A. Wood, Leslie B. Poole, and P. Andrew Karplus
Science 25 April 2003: 650-653.
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Reversing the Inactivation of Peroxiredoxins Caused by Cysteine Sulfinic Acid Formation

Hyun Ae Woo, Ho Zoon Chae, Sung Chul Hwang, Kap-Seok Yang, Sang Won Kang, Kanghwa Kim, and Sue Goo Rhee
Science 25 April 2003: 653-656.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh" (I)

Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Asish R. Basu, and Kshitij M. Kulkarni
Science 25 April 2003: 584.
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 Comment on "Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh" (II)

Alexander van Geen, Yan Zheng, Martin Stute, and Kazi Matin Ahmed
Science 25 April 2003: 584.
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 Response to Comments on "Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh"

C. F. Harvey, C. Swartz, A. B. M. Badruzzaman, N. Keon-Blute, W. Yu, M. A. Ali, J. Jay, R. Beckie, V. Niedan, D. Brabander, P. Oates, K. Ashfaque, S. Islam, H. Hemond, and M. F. Ahmed
Science 25 April 2003: 584.
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