This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Lessons from SARS

Barry R. Bloom
Science 2 May 2003: 701.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 2 May 2003: 703.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 2 May 2003: 713.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 2 May 2003: 817-819.

News of the Week

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Battling SARS on the Frontlines

Dennis Normile
Science 2 May 2003: 714-715.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Hungry for Details, Scientists Zoom In on SARS Genomes

Martin Enserink and Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 May 2003: 715-717.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
WHO Wants 21st-Century Reporting Regs

Martin Enserink
Science 2 May 2003: 717-718.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Avian Flu Outbreak Sets Off Alarm Bells

Martin Enserink
Science 2 May 2003: 718.
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PLANETARY EXPLORATION:
NASA Bails Out of French-Led Mars Mission

Charlene Crabb
Science 2 May 2003: 719.
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STEM CELLS:
Oocytes Spontaneously Generated

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 May 2003: 721.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Old Neurons Revisit Their Youth

Greg Miller
Science 2 May 2003: 721-722.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Purified Signaling Protein Stimulates Stem Cell Proliferation

Jennifer Couzin
Science 2 May 2003: 722.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Tortoise Pace for the Evolution of Chinese Writing?

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 May 2003: 723.
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SCIENCE PHILANTHROPY:
Gates Grows UW's Genome Program

Robert F. Service
Science 2 May 2003: 723.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The New Race to the Moon

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 May 2003: 724-727.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Moon Maintains Its Mysteries

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 May 2003: 727.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Hatching the Golden Egg: A New Way to Make Drugs

Joe Alper
Science 2 May 2003: 729-730.
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COSMOLOGY:
With Its Ingredients MAPped, Universe's Recipe Beckons

Charles Seife
Science 2 May 2003: 730-731.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 May 2003: 737.
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 Editorial Retraction (I)

Donald Kennedy
Science 2 May 2003: 737.
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 Editorial Retraction (II)

Donald Kennedy
Science 2 May 2003: 737.
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 Protecting Iraqi Antiquities

Ashton Hawkins
Science 2 May 2003: 737.
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 Science Publishing and Security Concerns

Stanley Falkow; and Donald Kennedy
Science 2 May 2003: 737-739.
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 Ethnic Differences and Disease Phenotypes

John Hardy, Andrew Singleton, and Katrina Gwinn-Hardy
Science 2 May 2003: 739-740.
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 Studying Traditional Chinese Medicine

Tianhan Xue and Rustum Roy
Science 2 May 2003: 740-741.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 2 May 2003: 741.
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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
A Framework for Vision's Bag of Tricks

Vincent A. Billock
Science 2 May 2003: 742-743.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Vision of the Lynxes

Giovanni F. Bignami
Science 2 May 2003: 743.
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 Books Received

Science 2 May 2003: 743.

Essays on Science and Society

PERCEPTIONS IN SCIENCE:
Prebiotic Soup--Revisiting the Miller Experiment

Jeffrey L. Bada and Antonio Lazcano
Science 2 May 2003: 745-746.
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Enhanced: On Sprites and Their Exotic Kin

Torsten Neubert
Science 2 May 2003: 747-749.
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CHEMISTRY:
The Beauty of Symmetry

Achim Müller
Science 2 May 2003: 749-750.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION:
Autoinhibition Control

Joseph Schlessinger
Science 2 May 2003: 750-752.
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ASTRONOMY:
Black Holes at the Cosmic Dawn

Xiaohui Fan
Science 2 May 2003: 752-753.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Place to Die, a Place to Sleep

Marvin Wickens and Aaron Goldstrohm
Science 2 May 2003: 753-755.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Changing Partners

Richard O. Hynes
Science 2 May 2003: 755-756.
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COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY:
Counting on the Neuron

Marvin Cassman
Science 2 May 2003: 756-757.
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Review

Assessing the Impact of the Green Revolution, 1960 to 2000

R. E. Evenson and D. Gollin
Science 2 May 2003: 758-762.
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Brevia

 Chimeric Nucleases Stimulate Gene Targeting in Human Cells

Matthew H. Porteus and David Baltimore
Science 2 May 2003: 763.
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 Enhancing Gene Targeting with Designed Zinc Finger Nucleases

Marina Bibikova, Kelly Beumer, Jonathan K. Trautman, and Dana Carroll
Science 2 May 2003: 764.
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Research Article

Human Chromosome 7: DNA Sequence and Biology

Stephen W. Scherer, Joseph Cheung, Jeffrey R. MacDonald, Lucy R. Osborne, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Jo-Anne Herbrick, Andrew R. Carson, Layla Parker-Katiraee, Jennifer Skaug, Razi Khaja, Junjun Zhang, Alexander K. Hudek, Martin Li, May Haddad, Gavin E. Duggan, Bridget A. Fernandez, Emiko Kanematsu, Simone Gentles, Constantine C. Christopoulos, Sanaa Choufani, Dorota Kwasnicka, Xiangqun H. Zheng, Zhongwu Lai, Deborah Nusskern, Qing Zhang, Zhiping Gu, Fu Lu, Susan Zeesman, Malgorzata J. Nowaczyk, Ikuko Teshima, David Chitayat, Cheryl Shuman, Rosanna Weksberg, Elaine H. Zackai, Theresa A. Grebe, Sarah R. Cox, Susan J. Kirkpatrick, Nazneen Rahman, Jan M. Friedman, Henry H. Q. Heng, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Francesco Lo-Coco, Elena Belloni, Lisa G. Shaffer, Barbara Pober, Cynthia C. Morton, James F. Gusella, Gail A. P. Bruns, Bruce R. Korf, Bradley J. Quade, Azra H. Ligon, Heather Ferguson, Anne W. Higgins, Natalia T. Leach, Steven R. Herrick, Emmanuelle Lemyre, Chantal G. Farra, Hyung-Goo Kim, Anne M. Summers, Karen W. Gripp, Wendy Roberts, Peter Szatmari, Elizabeth J. T. Winsor, Karl-Heinz Grzeschik, Ahmed Teebi, Berge A. Minassian, Juha Kere, Lluis Armengol, Miguel Angel Pujana, Xavier Estivill, Michael D. Wilson, Ben F. Koop, Sabrina Tosi, Gudrun E. Moore, Andrew P. Boright, Eitan Zlotorynski, Batsheva Kerem, Peter M. Kroisel, Erwin Petek, David G. Oscier, Sarah J. Mould, Hartmut Döhner, Konstanze Döhner, Johanna M. Rommens, John B. Vincent, J. Craig Venter, Peter W. Li, Richard J. Mural, Mark D. Adams, and Lap-Chee Tsui
Science 2 May 2003: 767-772.
Published online 10 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083423] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

A Molecular Einstein Ring: Imaging a Starburst Disk Surrounding a Quasi-Stellar Object

C. L. Carilli, G. F. Lewis, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal, P. Cox, F. Bertoldi, and A. Omont
Science 2 May 2003: 773-775.
Published online 3 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1082600] (in Science Express Reports)
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Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Lipid Derivatives on Carbon Nanotubes

Cyrille Richard, Fabrice Balavoine, Patrick Schultz, Thomas W. Ebbesen, and Charles Mioskowski
Science 2 May 2003: 775-778.
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Interpenetrating As₂₀ Fullerene and Ni₁₂ Icosahedra in the Onion-Skin [As@Ni₁₂@As₂₀]^3– Ion

Melanie J. Moses, James C. Fettinger, and Bryan W. Eichhorn
Science 2 May 2003: 778-780.
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Synthesis of Inorganic Fullerene-Like Molecules

Junfeng Bai, Alexander V. Virovets, and Manfred Scheer
Science 2 May 2003: 781-783.
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Electrically Induced Optical Emission from a Carbon Nanotube FET

J. A. Misewich, R. Martel, Ph. Avouris, J. C. Tsang, S. Heinze, and J. Tersoff
Science 2 May 2003: 783-786.
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The Potential for Earthquake Early Warning in Southern California

Richard M. Allen and Hiroo Kanamori
Science 2 May 2003: 786-789.
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Iron Partitioning in Earth's Mantle: Toward a Deep Lower Mantle Discontinuity

James Badro, Guillaume Fiquet, François Guyot, Jean-Pascal Rueff, Viktor V. Struzhkin, György Vankó, and Giulio Monaco
Science 2 May 2003: 789-791.
Published online 3 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1081311] (in Science Express Reports)
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Diverse Plant and Animal Genetic Records from Holocene and Pleistocene Sediments

Eske Willerslev, Anders J. Hansen, Jonas Binladen, Tina B. Brand, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Beth Shapiro, Michael Bunce, Carsten Wiuf, David A. Gilichinsky, and Alan Cooper
Science 2 May 2003: 791-795.
Published online 17 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1084114] (in Science Express Reports)
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Activation of Integrin IIbß3 by Modulation of Transmembrane Helix Associations

Renhao Li, Neal Mitra, Holly Gratkowski, Gaston Vilaire, Rustem Litvinov, Chandrasekaran Nagasami, John W. Weisel, James D. Lear, William F. DeGrado, and Joel S. Bennett
Science 2 May 2003: 795-798.
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Closing of the Nucleotide Pocket of Kinesin-Family Motors upon Binding to Microtubules

Nariman Naber, Todd J. Minehardt, Sarah Rice, Xiaoru Chen, Jean Grammer, Marija Matuska, Ronald D. Vale, Peter A. Kollman, Roberto Car, Ralph G. Yount, Roger Cooke, and Edward Pate
Science 2 May 2003: 798-801.
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Cooperation Between RNA Polymerase Molecules in Transcription Elongation

Vitaly Epshtein and Evgeny Nudler
Science 2 May 2003: 801-805.
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Decapping and Decay of Messenger RNA Occur in Cytoplasmic Processing Bodies

Ujwal Sheth and Roy Parker
Science 2 May 2003: 805-808.
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Mutations in Dynein Link Motor Neuron Degeneration to Defects in Retrograde Transport

Majid Hafezparast, Rainer Klocke, Christiana Ruhrberg, Andreas Marquardt, Azlina Ahmad-Annuar, Samantha Bowen, Giovanna Lalli, Abi S. Witherden, Holger Hummerich, Sharon Nicholson, P. Jeffrey Morgan, Ravi Oozageer, John V. Priestley, Sharon Averill, Von R. King, Simon Ball, Jo Peters, Takashi Toda, Ayumu Yamamoto, Yasushi Hiraoka, Martin Augustin, Dirk Korthaus, Sigrid Wattler, Philipp Wabnitz, Carmen Dickneite, Stefan Lampel, Florian Boehme, Gisela Peraus, Andreas Popp, Martina Rudelius, Juergen Schlegel, Helmut Fuchs, Martin Hrabe de Angelis, Giampietro Schiavo, David T. Shima, Andreas P. Russ, Gabriele Stumm, Joanne E. Martin, and Elizabeth M. C. Fisher
Science 2 May 2003: 808-812.
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GABA and Its Agonists Improved Visual Cortical Function in Senescent Monkeys

Audie G. Leventhal, Yongchang Wang, Mingliang Pu, Yifeng Zhou, and Yuanye Ma
Science 2 May 2003: 812-815.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Grasping Primate Origins"

E. Christopher Kirk, Matt Cartmill, Richard F. Kay, and Pierre Lemelin
Science 2 May 2003: 741.
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 Response to Comment on "Grasping Primate Origins"

Jonathan I. Bloch and Doug M. Boyer
Science 2 May 2003: 741.
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