This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
AIDS and Africa: Still a Sad Story

Donald Kennedy
Science 16 May 2003: 1053.
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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

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News of the Week

SARS OUTBREAK:
Flood of Sequence Data Yields Clues But Few Answers

Gretchen Vogel
Science 16 May 2003: 1062-1063.
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SARS OUTBREAK:
Hong Kong to Beef Up Monitoring

Dennis Normile
Science 16 May 2003: 1062.
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PHYSICS:
Is Berkeley Past Its Prime?

Robert F. Service
Science 16 May 2003: 1063-1065.
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ANTHRAX VACCINE:
NIAID's $233 Million Problem Put on Hold

Jon Cohen
Science 16 May 2003: 1065.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Arsenic Victims to Take British Science Body to Court

Daniel Bachtold
Science 16 May 2003: 1066.
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NUMBER THEORY:
Prime-Number Proof's Leap Falls Short

Dana Mackenzie
Science 16 May 2003: 1066.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Life's Diversity May Truly Have Leaped Since the Dinosaurs

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 May 2003: 1067-1069.
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TOXICOLOGY:
E.U. Shifts Endocrine Disrupter Research Into Overdrive

Sonja Lorenz
Science 16 May 2003: 1069.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
Down for the Count?

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 May 2003: 1070-1074.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
Viewed From 1986, It's Mostly Downhill

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 May 2003: 1071.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
Report to Argue for More Training Funds

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 May 2003: 1073.
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TAIWAN-CHINA COLLABORATION:
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters

Dennis Normile
Science 16 May 2003: 1074-1075.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Calculating the Incalculable

Adrian Cho
Science 16 May 2003: 1076-1077.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Monster Machines

Adrian Cho
Science 16 May 2003: 1077.
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COGNITION:
How the Mind Reads Other Minds

Carl Zimmer
Science 16 May 2003: 1079-1080.
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WEATHER FORECASTING:
Huge Pacific Waves Trigger Wild Weather Half a World Away

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 May 2003: 1081.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Eating Disorders and Obesity

Susan Reslewic
Science 16 May 2003: 1091.
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 Confusing Food with Obesity

John R. Lupien
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 The "Big Picture" in Obesity Research

Beverly Mühlhäusler
Science 16 May 2003: 1091-1092.
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 Building Biosafety Laboratories

Jean L. Patterson
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 Another Epidemic of Politics?

Roger Pielke, Jr.
Science 16 May 2003: 1092-1093.
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 Exploring Sea-Floor Resources

Porter Hoagland; and Peter A. Rona
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Stepping Forward Too Far?

Naomi Oreskes
Science 16 May 2003: 1094-1095.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE:
Sizing Up Democratic Systems

Peter R. Orszag
Science 16 May 2003: 1095-1096.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

DISASTER MANAGEMENT:
Flood Risk in Central Europe

Alfred Becker and Uwe Grünewald
Science 16 May 2003: 1099.
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Perspectives

IMMUNOLOGY:
A Viral On/Off Switch for Interferon

Bryan R. G. Williams and Ganes C. Sen
Science 16 May 2003: 1100-1101.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
SMC Complexes--Wrapped Up in Controversy

Mark Milutinovich and Douglas E. Koshland
Science 16 May 2003: 1101-1102.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Climate Forcing by Aerosols--a Hazy Picture

Theodore L. Anderson, Robert J. Charlson, Stephen E. Schwartz, Reto Knutti, Olivier Boucher, Henning Rodhe, and Jost Heintzenberg
Science 16 May 2003: 1103-1104.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Molecular Fuel Tanks

Michael D. Ward
Science 16 May 2003: 1104-1105.
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GEOPHYSICS:
How Faults Accommodate Plate Motion

Craig H. Jones
Science 16 May 2003: 1105-1106.
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Review

Applications for Nuclear Phenomena Generated by Ultra-Intense Lasers

K. W. D. Ledingham, P. McKenna, and R. P. Singhal
Science 16 May 2003: 1107-1111.
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Brevia

 Hypermutation of HIV-1 DNA in the Absence of the Vif Protein

Denise Lecossier, Francine Bouchonnet, François Clavel, and Allan J. Hance
Science 16 May 2003: 1112.
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Research Article

The 2002 Denali Fault Earthquake, Alaska: A Large Magnitude, Slip-Partitioned Event

Donna Eberhart-Phillips, Peter J. Haeussler, Jeffrey T. Freymueller, Arthur D. Frankel, Charles M. Rubin, Patricia Craw, Natalia A. Ratchkovski, Greg Anderson, Gary A. Carver, Anthony J. Crone, Timothy E. Dawson, Hilary Fletcher, Roger Hansen, Edwin L. Harp, Ruth A. Harris, David P. Hill, Sigrún Hreinsdóttir, Randall W. Jibson, Lucile M. Jones, Robert Kayen, David K. Keefer, Christopher F. Larsen, Seth C. Moran, Stephen F. Personius, George Plafker, Brian Sherrod, Kerry Sieh, Nicholas Sitar, and Wesley K. Wallace
Science 16 May 2003: 1113-1118.
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Reports

Formation of a Black Hole in the Dark

I. Félix Mirabel and Irapuan Rodrigues
Science 16 May 2003: 1119-1120.
Published online 24 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083451] (in Science Express Reports)
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Slip Partitioning by Elastoplastic Propagation of Oblique Slip at Depth

David Bowman, Geoffrey King, and Paul Tapponnier
Science 16 May 2003: 1121-1123.
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Detection of Hydroxyl Ions in Bone Mineral by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Gyunggoo Cho, Yaotang Wu, and Jerome L. Ackerman
Science 16 May 2003: 1123-1127.
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Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks

Nathaniel L. Rosi, Juergen Eckert, Mohamed Eddaoudi, David T. Vodak, Jaheon Kim, Michael O'Keeffe, and Omar M. Yaghi
Science 16 May 2003: 1127-1129.
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Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atoms and Nanoparticles

P. Gambardella, S. Rusponi, M. Veronese, S. S. Dhesi, C. Grazioli, A. Dallmeyer, I. Cabria, R. Zeller, P. H. Dederichs, K. Kern, C. Carbone, and H. Brune
Science 16 May 2003: 1130-1133.
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The Impact of the Pull of the Recent on the History of Marine Diversity

David Jablonski, Kaustuv Roy, James W. Valentine, Rebecca M. Price, and Philip S. Anderson
Science 16 May 2003: 1133-1135.
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Local Selection and Latitudinal Variation in a Marine Predator-Prey Interaction

Eric Sanford, Melissa S. Roth, Glenn C. Johns, John P. Wares, and George N. Somero
Science 16 May 2003: 1135-1137.
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Rapid Turnover of Hyphae of Mycorrhizal Fungi Determined by AMS Microanalysis of ¹⁴C

Philip L. Staddon, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Nick Ostle, Philip Ineson, and Alastair H. Fitter
Science 16 May 2003: 1138-1140.
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction in the Elderly: Possible Role in Insulin Resistance

Kitt Falk Petersen, Douglas Befroy, Sylvie Dufour, James Dziura, Charlotte Ariyan, Douglas L. Rothman, Loretta DiPietro, Gary W. Cline, and Gerald I. Shulman
Science 16 May 2003: 1140-1142.
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Regulation of Aging and Age-Related Disease by DAF-16 and Heat-Shock Factor

Ao-Lin Hsu, Coleen T. Murphy, and Cynthia Kenyon
Science 16 May 2003: 1142-1145.
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Regulation of Interferon Regulatory Factor-3 by the Hepatitis C Virus Serine Protease

Eileen Foy, Kui Li, Chunfu Wang, Rhea Sumpter, Jr., Masanori Ikeda, Stanley M. Lemon, and Michael Gale, Jr.
Science 16 May 2003: 1145-1148.
Published online 17 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1082604] (in Science Express Reports)
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Triggering the Interferon Antiviral Response Through an IKK-Related Pathway

Sonia Sharma, Benjamin R. tenOever, Nathalie Grandvaux, Guo-Ping Zhou, Rongtuan Lin, and John Hiscott
Science 16 May 2003: 1148-1151.
Published online 17 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1081315] (in Science Express Reports)
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Distinct Cohesin Complexes Organize Meiotic Chromosome Domains

Tomoya S. Kitajima, Shihori Yokobayashi, Masayuki Yamamoto, and Yoshinori Watanabe
Science 16 May 2003: 1152-1155.
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Tumor Response to Radiotherapy Regulated by Endothelial Cell Apoptosis

Monica Garcia-Barros, Francois Paris, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, David Lyden, Shahin Rafii, Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman, Zvi Fuks, and Richard Kolesnick
Science 16 May 2003: 1155-1159.
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Catalysis of Ribosomal Translocation by Sparsomycin

Kurt Fredrick and Harry F. Noller
Science 16 May 2003: 1159-1162.
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