This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Committed to the Best Science?

Donald Kennedy
Science 23 May 2003: 1201.
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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

AIDS RESEARCH:
Drug Trials Without the Drugs?

Jon Cohen
Science 23 May 2003: 1212-1213.
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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
Financial Crisis Puts Comet Mission on the Ropes

Daniel Clery
Science 23 May 2003: 1213.
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CLIMATE:
A Surprise La Niña

Richard A. Kerr
Science 23 May 2003: 1215.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Monarchs Check Clock to Chart Migration Route

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 23 May 2003: 1216-1217.
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SARS:
Researcher Told to Stay Home After China Trip

Martin Enserink
Science 23 May 2003: 1216.
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ROYAL SOCIETY:
Nine Women Make 2003 a Record Year

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 23 May 2003: 1217.
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SOLAR CELLS:
Tricks for Beating the Heat Help Panels See the Light

Robert F. Service
Science 23 May 2003: 1219.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

KAZAKHSTAN:
Plutonium Fields Forever

Richard Stone
Science 23 May 2003: 1220-1224.
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KAZAKHSTAN:
For a Long-Suffering Population, Uncertainty Reigns

Richard Stone
Science 23 May 2003: 1222.
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KAZAKHSTAN:
Safe Haven for a Breeder's Plutonium Hoard

Richard Stone
Science 23 May 2003: 1224.
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CLINICAL TRIALS:
In Critical Condition

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 May 2003: 1225-1226.
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EUROPEAN FACILITIES:
Stuck in Neutron Neutral

Daniel Clery and Gretchen Vogel
Science 23 May 2003: 1226-1227.
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ALBERT OSTERHAUS PROFILE:
The Virus Collector

Martin Enserink
Science 23 May 2003: 1228-1229.
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MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL:
Out of the Frying Pan Into the MRC

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 May 2003: 1230.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 23 May 2003: 1234.
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 Science, Ethics, and War

Christopher W. Pawlowski; and Richard Stone
Science 23 May 2003: 1234.
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 Supporting Scientists and Research in Iraq

Irving Lerch, Richard Wilson, Herman Winick;, and Lester Paldy
Science 23 May 2003: 1234-1235.
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 Carbon Nanotubes Provide a Charge

Adam E. Cohen;, S. Ghosh, A. K. Sood, and N. Kumar
Science 23 May 2003: 1235-1236.
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 Inoculating a Science Education Epidemic

Louis Roccanova; and Thomas R. Cech
Science 23 May 2003: 1236.
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Books et al.

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Equality of the Sexes

H. C. J. Godfray
Science 23 May 2003: 1237.
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 Browsings

Science 23 May 2003: 1237.
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ENVIRONMENT:
So Many People, So Little Water

A. Scott Henderson
Science 23 May 2003: 1238.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Three-Gorges Dam--Experiment in Habitat Fragmentation?

Jianguo Wu, Jianhui Huang, Xingguo Han, Zongqiang Xie, and Xianming Gao
Science 23 May 2003: 1239-1240.
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ECOLOGY:
Protecting China's Biodiversity

Jianguo Liu, Zhiyun Ouyang, Stuart L. Pimm, Peter H. Raven, Xiaoke Wang, Hong Miao, and Nianyong Han
Science 23 May 2003: 1240-1241.
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Perspectives

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Slow in, Rapid out--Carbon Flux Studies and Kyoto Targets

Christian Körner
Science 23 May 2003: 1242-1243.
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PLANT SCIENCES:
Enhanced: Super Sunflowers--Stopping the Rot?

John Heritage
Science 23 May 2003: 1243-1244.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Nanocrystals Get Twins

Jørgen B. Bilde-Sørensen and Jakob Schiøtz
Science 23 May 2003: 1244-1245.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Transparent Electronics

John. F. Wager
Science 23 May 2003: 1245-1246.
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GENOMICS:
Not Junk After All

Wojciech Makalowski
Science 23 May 2003: 1246-1247.
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RETROSPECTIVE:
"My Little Spontaneous Blips"

John Heuser
Science 23 May 2003: 1248.
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Brevia

 Growth of Epitaxial Nanowires at the Junctions of Nanowalls

Hou T. Ng, Jun Li, Michael K. Smith, Pho Nguyen, Alan Cassell, Jie Han, and M. Meyyappan
Science 23 May 2003: 1249.
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 Fitness Effects of Transgenic Disease Resistance in Sunflowers

John M. Burke and Loren H. Rieseberg
Science 23 May 2003: 1250.
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Research Articles

Derivation of Oocytes from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells

Karin Hübner, Guy Fuhrmann, Lane K. Christenson, James Kehler, Rolland Reinbold, Rabindranath De La Fuente, Jennifer Wood, Jerome F. Strauss, III, Michele Boiani, and Hans R. Schöler
Science 23 May 2003: 1251-1256.
Published online 1 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083452] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Keeping G Proteins at Bay: A Complex Between G Protein-Coupled Receptor Kinase 2 and Gß

David T. Lodowski, Julie A. Pitcher, W. Darrell Capel, Robert J. Lefkowitz, and John J. G. Tesmer
Science 23 May 2003: 1256-1262.
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Reports

Orbital Motion in the Radio Galaxy 3C 66B: Evidence for a Supermassive Black Hole Binary

Hiroshi Sudou, Satoru Iguchi, Yasuhiro Murata, and Yoshiaki Taniguchi
Science 23 May 2003: 1263-1265.
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Ferroelectricity in Free Niobium Clusters

Ramiro Moro, Xiaoshan Xu, Shuangye Yin, and Walt A. de Heer
Science 23 May 2003: 1265-1269.
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Thin-Film Transistor Fabricated in Single-Crystalline Transparent Oxide Semiconductor

Kenji Nomura, Hiromichi Ohta, Kazushige Ueda, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, and Hideo Hosono
Science 23 May 2003: 1269-1272.
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Geometric Origin of Hexagonal Close Packing at a Grain Boundary in Gold

G. Lucadamo and D. L. Medlin
Science 23 May 2003: 1272-1275.
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Deformation Twinning in Nanocrystalline Aluminum

Mingwei Chen, En Ma, Kevin J. Hemker, Hongwei Sheng, Yinmin Wang, and Xuemei Cheng
Science 23 May 2003: 1275-1277.
Published online 24 April 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1083727] (in Science Express Reports)
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n-Type Conducting CdSe Nanocrystal Solids

Dong Yu, Congjun Wang, and Philippe Guyot-Sionnest
Science 23 May 2003: 1277-1280.
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Influence of Satellite Data Uncertainties on the Detection of Externally Forced Climate Change

B. D. Santer, T. M. L. Wigley, G. A. Meehl, M. F. Wehner, C. Mears, M. Schabel, F. J. Wentz, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, T. Bettge, W. M. Washington, K. E. Taylor, J. S. Boyle, W. Brüggemann, and C. Doutriaux
Science 23 May 2003: 1280-1284.
Published online 1 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1082393] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Modular PIP₂ Binding Site as a Determinant of Capsaicin Receptor Sensitivity

Elizabeth D. Prescott and David Julius
Science 23 May 2003: 1284-1288.
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The Birth of an Alternatively Spliced Exon: 3' Splice-Site Selection in Alu Exons

Galit Lev-Maor, Rotem Sorek, Noam Shomron, and Gil Ast
Science 23 May 2003: 1288-1291.
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Essential Role of Fkbp6 in Male Fertility and Homologous Chromosome Pairing in Meiosis

Michael A. Crackower, Nadine K. Kolas, Junko Noguchi, Renu Sarao, Kazuhiro Kikuchi, Hiroyuki Kaneko, Eiji Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Kawai, Ivona Kozieradzki, Rushin Landers, Rong Mo, Chi-Chung Hui, Edward Nieves, Paula E. Cohen, Lucy R. Osborne, Teiji Wada, Tetsuo Kunieda, Peter B. Moens, and Josef M. Penninger
Science 23 May 2003: 1291-1295.
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Recruitment of HIV and Its Receptors to Dendritic Cell-T Cell Junctions

David McDonald, Li Wu, Stacy M. Bohks, Vineet N. KewalRamani, Derya Unutmaz, and Thomas J. Hope
Science 23 May 2003: 1295-1297.
Published online 1 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1084238] (in Science Express Reports)
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CD2-Associated Protein Haploinsufficiency Is Linked to Glomerular Disease Susceptibility

Jeong M. Kim, Hui Wu, Gopa Green, Cheryl A. Winkler, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Jeffrey H. Miner, Emil R. Unanue, and Andrey S. Shaw
Science 23 May 2003: 1298-1300.
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Uncoupling of Leading- and Lagging-Strand DNA Replication During Lesion Bypass in Vivo

Vincent Pagès and Robert P. Fuchs
Science 23 May 2003: 1300-1303.
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Illuminating the Circadian Clock in Monarch Butterfly Migration

Oren Froy, Anthony L. Gotter, Amy L. Casselman, and Steven M. Reppert
Science 23 May 2003: 1303-1305.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Single Crystals of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Formed by Self-Assembly"

Matthew F. Chisholm, Yuhuang Wang, Andrew R. Lupini, Gyula Eres, Alex A. Puretzky, Bruce Brinson, Anatoli V. Melechko, David B. Geohegan, Hongtao Cui, Marie P. Johnson, Stephen J. Pennycook, Douglas H. Lowndes, Sivaram Arepalli, Carter Kittrell, Saujan Sivaram, Myung Kim, Gerry Lavin, Junichiro Kono, Robert Hauge, and Richard E. Smalley
Science 23 May 2003: 1236.
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 Response to Comment on "Single Crystals of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Formed by Self-Assembly"

M. E. Welland, C. Durkan, M. S. M. Saifullah, J. W. Seo, R. R. Schlittler, and J. K. Gimzewski
Science 23 May 2003: 1236.
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