This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Validity and Ethics in Science

R. Stephen Berry
Science 30 May 2003: 1341.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

DATA ACCESS:
Industry Groups Petition for Data on Salt and Hypertension

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 30 May 2003: 1350.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Clues to the Animal Origins of SARS

Martin Enserink
Science 30 May 2003: 1351.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY:
Whitman Leaves Science Legacy at EPA

Erik Stokstad
Science 30 May 2003: 1351.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Secrecy on Big Projects Breeds Earmarks, Panel Is Told

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 30 May 2003: 1352.
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SCIENTIFIC WORKFORCE:
Report Asks Colleges to Plug A Leaky People Pipeline

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 30 May 2003: 1353.
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GENETICS:
First Cloned Mule Races to Finish Line

Constance Holden
Science 30 May 2003: 1354.
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ITALIAN SCIENCE:
Industrial Renaissance or a New Dark Age?

John Bohannon and Alexander Hellemans
Science 30 May 2003: 1354-1355.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Experts Say Big Cats Don't Leave Useful Tracks

Pallava Bagla
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASTRONOMY:
The Milky Way's Dark, Starving Pit

Robert Irion
Science 30 May 2003: 1356-1358.
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NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
North Korea's Not-So-Hidden Agenda Raises the Ante

Charles Seife
Science 30 May 2003: 1358-1361.
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NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION:
Pick Your Poison: U vs. Pu

Charles Seife
Science 30 May 2003: 1359.
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MILITARY RESEARCH:
U.S. Defense Labs Brace for a Blast From Their Bosses

David Malakoff
Science 30 May 2003: 1361-1362.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Taming Pathogens: An Elegant Idea, But Does It Work?

Carl Zimmer
Science 30 May 2003: 1362-1364.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Darwinian Vaccines

Carl Zimmer
Science 30 May 2003: 1363.
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MARINE BIOLOGY:
Will Oil Spell Trouble for Western Pacific Gray Whales?

Paul Webster
Science 30 May 2003: 1365.
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FERNANDO REINACH PROFILE:
From Bench to Boardroom: Promoting Brazilian Biotech

Alessandro Greco
Science 30 May 2003: 1366-1367.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Retraction

Ryuichi Nishihama, Sangho Jeong, Brody DeYoung, and Steven E. Clark
Science 30 May 2003: 1370.
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 Incorporating Science into Decision-Making

Herman A. Karl and Christine E. Turner
Science 24 May 2003: 1370.
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 Evolution of Protein Amino Acids

Kenneth M. Towe
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 Giving Credit to the First Linear Collider

Charles Baltay, Martin Breidenbach, Burton Richter;, and Adrian Cho
Science 30 May 2003: 1371-1372.
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 Calculating the Benefits of Regulation

Cora R. Roelofs and Michael J. Ellenbecker
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS:

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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Where Have All the Mammoth Gone?

Vance T. Holliday
Science 30 May 2003: 1373-1374.
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS:
A Prescription for Peace

Ashton B. Carter
Science 30 May 2003: 1374.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PATENT LAW:
Natural Substances and Patentable Inventions

Linda J. Demaine and Aaron X. Fellmeth
Science 30 May 2003: 1375-1376.
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Perspectives

VIROLOGY:
The SARS Coronavirus: A Postgenomic Era

Kathryn V. Holmes and Luis Enjuanes
Science 30 May 2003: 1377-1378.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Watching Nanoparticles Grow

Geoff Thornton
Science 30 May 2003: 1378-1379.
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GEOLOGY:
Enhanced: The Rodinia Jigsaw Puzzle

Trond H. Torsvik
Science 30 May 2003: 1379-1381.
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PHYSICS:
Broken Cooper Pairs Caught Bouncing Around

Bernhard Keimer
Science 30 May 2003: 1381-1382.
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MICROBIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
Modulating Mutation Rates in the Wild

Susan M. Rosenberg and P. J. Hastings
Science 30 May 2003: 1382-1383.
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Review

Electron Transport in Molecular Wire Junctions

Abraham Nitzan and Mark A. Ratner
Science 30 May 2003: 1384-1389.
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Brevia

 Eukaryotic Intron Loss

Tobias Mourier and Daniel C. Jeffares
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Research Articles

Characterization of a Novel Coronavirus Associated with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

Paul A. Rota, M. Steven Oberste, Stephan S. Monroe, W. Allan Nix, Ray Campagnoli, Joseph P. Icenogle, Silvia Peñaranda, Bettina Bankamp, Kaija Maher, Min-hsin Chen, Suxiong Tong, Azaibi Tamin, Luis Lowe, Michael Frace, Joseph L. DeRisi, Qi Chen, David Wang, Dean D. Erdman, Teresa C. T. Peret, Cara Burns, Thomas G. Ksiazek, Pierre E. Rollin, Anthony Sanchez, Stephanie Liffick, Brian Holloway, Josef Limor, Karen McCaustland, Melissa Olsen-Rasmussen, Ron Fouchier, Stephan Günther, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus, Christian Drosten, Mark A. Pallansch, Larry J. Anderson, and William J. Bellini
Science 30 May 2003: 1394-1399.
Published online 1 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1085952] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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The Genome Sequence of the SARS-Associated Coronavirus

Marco A. Marra, Steven J. M. Jones, Caroline R. Astell, Robert A. Holt, Angela Brooks-Wilson, Yaron S. N. Butterfield, Jaswinder Khattra, Jennifer K. Asano, Sarah A. Barber, Susanna Y. Chan, Alison Cloutier, Shaun M. Coughlin, Doug Freeman, Noreen Girn, Obi L. Griffith, Stephen R. Leach, Michael Mayo, Helen McDonald, Stephen B. Montgomery, Pawan K. Pandoh, Anca S. Petrescu, A. Gordon Robertson, Jacqueline E. Schein, Asim Siddiqui, Duane E. Smailus, Jeff M. Stott, George S. Yang, Francis Plummer, Anton Andonov, Harvey Artsob, Nathalie Bastien, Kathy Bernard, Timothy F. Booth, Donnie Bowness, Martin Czub, Michael Drebot, Lisa Fernando, Ramon Flick, Michael Garbutt, Michael Gray, Allen Grolla, Steven Jones, Heinz Feldmann, Adrienne Meyers, Amin Kabani, Yan Li, Susan Normand, Ute Stroher, Graham A. Tipples, Shaun Tyler, Robert Vogrig, Diane Ward, Brynn Watson, Robert C. Brunham, Mel Krajden, Martin Petric, Danuta M. Skowronski, Chris Upton, and Rachel L. Roper
Science 30 May 2003: 1399-1404.
Published online 1 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1085953] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Stress-Induced Mutagenesis in Bacteria

Ivana Bjedov, Olivier Tenaillon, Bénédicte Gérard, Valeria Souza, Erick Denamur, Miroslav Radman, François Taddei, and Ivan Matic
Science 30 May 2003: 1404-1409.
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Reports

Diffusion of Nonequilibrium Quasi-Particles in a Cuprate Superconductor

N. Gedik, J. Orenstein, Ruixing Liang, D. A. Bonn, and W. N. Hardy
Science 30 May 2003: 1410-1412.
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A Bond-Fluctuation Mechanism for Stochastic Switching in Wired Molecules

Ganesh K. Ramachandran, Theresa J. Hopson, Adam M. Rawlett, Larry A. Nagahara, Alex Primak, and Stuart M. Lindsay
Science 30 May 2003: 1413-1416.
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Real-Time Monitoring of Growing Nanoparticles

Gilles Renaud, Rémi Lazzari, Christine Revenant, Antoine Barbier, Marion Noblet, Olivier Ulrich, Frédéric Leroy, Jacques Jupille, Yves Borensztein, Claude R. Henry, Jean-Paul Deville, Fabrice Scheurer, Jeannot Mane-Mane, and Olivier Fruchart
Science 30 May 2003: 1416-1419.
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Atomic Resolution Imaging of a Carbon Nanotube from Diffraction Intensities

J. M. Zuo, I. Vartanyants, M. Gao, R. Zhang, and L. A. Nagahara
Science 30 May 2003: 1419-1421.
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Using 1-Hz GPS Data to Measure Deformations Caused by the Denali Fault Earthquake

Kristine M. Larson, Paul Bodin, and Joan Gomberg
Science 30 May 2003: 1421-1424.
Published online 15 May 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1084531] (in Science Express Reports)
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Seismic Imaging of the Downwelling Indian Lithosphere Beneath Central Tibet

Frederik Tilmann, James Ni, and INDEPTH III Seismic Team
Science 30 May 2003: 1424-1427.
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Modulation of Phospholipid Signaling by GLABRA2 in Root-Hair Pattern Formation

Yohei Ohashi, Atsuhiro Oka, Renato Rodrigues-Pousada, Marco Possenti, Ida Ruberti, Giorgio Morelli, and Takashi Aoyama
Science 30 May 2003: 1427-1430.
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Disruption of the Epithelial Apical-Junctional Complex by Helicobacter pylori CagA

Manuel R. Amieva, Roger Vogelmann, Antonello Covacci, Lucy S. Tompkins, W. James Nelson, and Stanley Falkow
Science 30 May 2003: 1430-1434.
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Water-Soluble Quantum Dots for Multiphoton Fluorescence Imaging in Vivo

Daniel R. Larson, Warren R. Zipfel, Rebecca M. Williams, Stephen W. Clark, Marcel P. Bruchez, Frank W. Wise, and Watt W. Webb
Science 30 May 2003: 1434-1436.
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Disrupted Timing of Discontinuous But Not Continuous Movements by Cerebellar Lesions

Rebecca M. C. Spencer, Howard N. Zelaznik, Jörn Diedrichsen, and Richard B. Ivry
Science 30 May 2003: 1437-1439.
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Characterization of Mammalian Selenoproteomes

Gregory V. Kryukov, Sergi Castellano, Sergey V. Novoselov, Alexey V. Lobanov, Omid Zehtab, Roderic Guigó, and Vadim N. Gladyshev
Science 30 May 2003: 1439-1443.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution"

Jon Mallatt, Junyuan Chen, and Nicholas D. Holland
Science 30 May 2003: 1372.
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 Response to Comment on "A New Species of Yunnanozoan with Implications for Deuterostome Evolution"

Degan Shu and Simon Conway Morris
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