Metals: Impacts on Health and the Environment

A Question of Dose

Caroline Ash and Richard Stone
Science 9 May 2003: 925.
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News

Manganese: A High-Octane Dispute

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 May 2003: 926-928.
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State Court to Rule on Manganese Fume Claims

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 May 2003: 927.
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Reviews

The Interface Between the Biological and Inorganic Worlds: Iron-Sulfur Metalloclusters

Douglas C. Rees and James B. Howard
Science 9 May 2003: 929-931.
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Transition Metal Speciation in the Cell: Insights from the Chemistry of Metal Ion Receptors

Lydia A. Finney and Thomas V. O'Halloran
Science 9 May 2003: 931-936.
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Boon and Bane of Metal Ions in Medicine

Katherine H. Thompson and Chris Orvig
Science 9 May 2003: 936-939.
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The Ecology of Arsenic

Ronald S. Oremland and John F. Stolz
Science 9 May 2003: 939-944.
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The Biogeochemical Cycles of Trace Metals in the Oceans

F. M. M. Morel and N. M. Price
Science 9 May 2003: 944-947.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Stem Cells: Still Here, Still Waiting

Donald Kennedy
Science 9 May 2003: 865.
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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 9 May 2003: 1001-1003.

News of the Week

WEAPONS LABORATORIES:
DOE Breaks With Tradition, Puts Los Alamos Up for Bids

David Malakoff
Science 9 May 2003: 876.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH:
A Call From Downtown to Shed Staff, Authority

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 May 2003: 877-879.
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ANTHRAX VACCINE:
NIAID's Nasty Surprise

Jon Cohen
Science 9 May 2003: 877.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Rubin to Head Hughes Institute's New 'Farm'

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 May 2003: 879.
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SPACE PHYSICS:
NASA Orders Make-or-Break Tests for Gravity Probe

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 May 2003: 880.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Smallpox Vaccination Campaign in the Doldrums

Martin Enserink
Science 9 May 2003: 880-881.
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LONGEVITY RESEARCH:
Single Signal Unites Treatments That Prolong Life

Evelyn Strauss
Science 9 May 2003: 881-883.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:
Twenty-One Women in 2003 Class

Science 9 May 2003: 883-884.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
In Clone Wars, Quantum Computers Need Not Apply

Charles Seife
Science 9 May 2003: 884.
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PALEOBIOLOGY:
Megafauna Died From Big Kill, Not Big Chill

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 May 2003: 885.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Up Close and Personal With SARS

Dennis Normile
Science 9 May 2003: 886-887.
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MILITARY RESEARCH:
Mach 12 by 2012?

David Malakoff
Science 9 May 2003: 888-889.
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IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGY:
Antiquity Experts Endorse Plans to Restore Shattered Collection

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 May 2003: 889-890.
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ROMANIA:
Unexpected Riches From a Fabled Gold Mine

Gretchen Vogel
Science 9 May 2003: 890-891.
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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY MEETING:
A Shrunken Head for African Homo erectus

Ann Gibbons
Science 9 May 2003: 893.
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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY MEETING:
A Miss for Moderns And Neandertals

Ann Gibbons
Science 9 May 2003: 893-894.
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PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY MEETING:
First Modern Remains in Europe

Ann Gibbons
Science 9 May 2003: 894.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Rapid Evolution Can Foil Even the Best-Laid Plans

Carl Zimmer
Science 9 May 2003: 895.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 9 May 2003: 901.
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 Psychiatric Drugs and Children

Michael S. Jellinek
Science 9 May 2003: 901.
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 Remembering Great Mentors

Paul Falkowski
Science 21 May 2003: 901.
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 Persistent Organic Pollutants and Policy

David Leonard Downie
Science 9 May 2003: 901.
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 Communication from Space: Radio and Optical

Sander Weinreb;, Martin Harwit, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, and Alex Harwit
Science 9 May 2003: 901-905.
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 A Random Samples Clarification

Elizabeth Loftus
Science 9 May 2003: 905.
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 Another Random Samples Clarification

David L. Corwin
Science 9 May 2003: 905.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 21 May 2003: 905.
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Books et al.

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
The Ratios of Life

Anthony F. Michaels
Science 9 May 2003: 906-907.
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ENVIRONMENT:
People and the Trees

Brian Donahue
Science 9 May 2003: 907-908.
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 Browsings

Science 9 May 2003: 908.
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 Books Received

Science 9 May 2003: 908.

Policy Forum

EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS:
Enhanced: Stem Cell Programs

Elias Zerhouni
Science 9 May 2003: 911-912.
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Perspectives

STEM CELLS:
Enhanced: Setting Standards for Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Ali H. Brivanlou, Fred H. Gage, Rudolf Jaenisch, Thomas Jessell, Douglas Melton, and Janet Rossant
Science 9 May 2003: 913-916.
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ECOLOGY:
Cryptic Herbivores of the Rainforest Canopy

James H. Hunt
Science 9 May 2003: 916-917.
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BIOMEDICINE:
A View from the Top--Prion Diseases from 10,000 Feet

Suzette A. Priola, Bruce Chesebro, and Byron Caughey
Science 9 May 2003: 917-919.
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GEOLOGY:
Deep Origin of Hotspots--the Mantle Plume Model

Donald J. DePaolo and Michael Manga
Science 9 May 2003: 920-921.
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GEOLOGY:
Is "Hotspot" Volcanism a Consequence of Plate Tectonics?

G. R. Foulger and J. H. Natland
Science 9 May 2003: 921-922.
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Brevia

 Mutational Analysis of the Tyrosine Kinome in Colorectal Cancers

Alberto Bardelli, D. Williams Parsons, Natalie Silliman, Janine Ptak, Steve Szabo, Saurabh Saha, Sanford Markowitz, James K. V. Willson, Giovanni Parmigiani, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, and Victor E. Velculescu
Science 9 May 2003: 949.
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 Salt-Pump Mechanism for Contaminant Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers

Ishai Dror, Tal Amitay, Bruno Yaron, and Brian Berkowitz
Science 9 May 2003: 950.
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Reports

Calculated Phonon Spectra of Plutonium at High Temperatures

X. Dai, S. Y. Savrasov, G. Kotliar, A. Migliori, H. Ledbetter, and E. Abrahams
Science 9 May 2003: 953-955.
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Microfluidic Memory and Control Devices

Alex Groisman, Markus Enzelberger, and Stephen R. Quake
Science 9 May 2003: 955-958.
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A Mesoscale Iron Enrichment in the Western Subarctic Pacific Induces a Large Centric Diatom Bloom

Atsushi Tsuda, Shigenobu Takeda, Hiroaki Saito, Jun Nishioka, Yukihiro Nojiri, Isao Kudo, Hiroshi Kiyosawa, Akihiro Shiomoto, Keiri Imai, Tsuneo Ono, Akifumi Shimamoto, Daisuke Tsumune, Takeshi Yoshimura, Tatsuo Aono, Akira Hinuma, Masatoshi Kinugasa, Koji Suzuki, Yoshiki Sohrin, Yoshifumi Noiri, Heihachiro Tani, Yuji Deguchi, Nobuo Tsurushima, Hiroshi Ogawa, Kimio Fukami, Kenshi Kuma, and Toshiro Saino
Science 9 May 2003: 958-961.
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Sediment-Dispersed Extraterrestrial Chromite Traces a Major Asteroid Disruption Event

Birger Schmitz, Therese Häggström, and Mario Tassinari
Science 9 May 2003: 961-964.
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Efficient Epoxidation of Olefins with 99% Selectivity and Use of Hydrogen Peroxide

Keigo Kamata, Koji Yonehara, Yasutaka Sumida, Kazuya Yamaguchi, Shiro Hikichi, and Noritaka Mizuno
Science 9 May 2003: 964-966.
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State-Specific Correlation of Coincident Product Pairs in the F + CD₄ Reaction

Jim J. Lin, Jingang Zhou, Weicheng Shiu, and Kopin Liu
Science 9 May 2003: 966-969.
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Explaining the Abundance of Ants in Lowland Tropical Rainforest Canopies

Diane W. Davidson, Steven C. Cook, Roy R. Snelling, and Tock H. Chua
Science 9 May 2003: 969-972.
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Long-Term Effects of Wildfire on Ecosystem Properties Across an Island Area Gradient

David A. Wardle, Greger Hörnberg, Olle Zackrisson, Maarit Kalela-Brundin, and David A. Coomes
Science 9 May 2003: 972-975.
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Structural Basis of Multiple Drug-Binding Capacity of the AcrB Multidrug Efflux Pump

Edward W. Yu, Gerry McDermott, Helen I. Zgurskaya, Hiroshi Nikaido, and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Science 9 May 2003: 976-980.
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Molecular Architecture of the Multiprotein Splicing Factor SF3b

Monika M. Golas, Bjoern Sander, Cindy L. Will, Reinhard Lührmann, and Holger Stark
Science 9 May 2003: 980-984.
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Recombinant Antibodies to the Small GTPase Rab6 as Conformation Sensors

Clément Nizak, Solange Monier, Elaine del Nery, Sandrine Moutel, Bruno Goud, and Franck Perez
Science 9 May 2003: 984-987.
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Unmasking the S-Phase-Promoting Potential of Cyclin B1

Jonathan D. Moore, Jane A. Kirk, and Tim Hunt
Science 9 May 2003: 987-990.
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Asymmetrical Allocation of NMDA Receptor 2 Subunits in Hippocampal Circuitry

Ryosuke Kawakami, Yoshiaki Shinohara, Yuichiro Kato, Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Ryuichi Shigemoto, and Isao Ito
Science 9 May 2003: 990-994.
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Eye-Specific Retinogeniculate Segregation Independent of Normal Neuronal Activity

Andrew D. Huberman, Guo-Yong Wang, Lauren C. Liets, Odell A. Collins, Barbara Chapman, and Leo M. Chalupa
Science 9 May 2003: 994-998.
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