This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Scientific Exchange: Storm Rising?

Donald Kennedy
Science 25 July 2003: 437.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 25 July 2003: 443.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 25 July 2003: 476-477.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 25 July 2003: 528.

News of the Week

2004 SCIENCE BUDGET:
House Panel Backs 6% NSF Increase As Other Agencies Struggle

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 25 July 2003: 444-445.
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2004 SCIENCE BUDGET:
Congress Wants the Twain to Meet

Jennifer Couzin
Science 25 July 2003: 444.
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BIOWEAPONS:
British Expert Leaves Impressive Arms Control Legacy

Richard Stone
Science 25 July 2003: 445-447.
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AGBIOTECH:
U.K. Government Panel Gives GM Crops Cautious Support

John Pickrell
Science 25 July 2003: 447-448.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Depth Charges Aimed at Columbia's 'Submarine Patent'

Eliot Marshall
Science 25 July 2003: 448.
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COSMOLOGY:
Dark Energy Passes Another Test

Charles Seife
Science 25 July 2003: 449.
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PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS:
Late Date for Siberian Site Challenges Bering Pathway

Richard Stone
Science 25 July 2003: 450-451.
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ECOLOGY:
New Count of Old Whales Adds Up to Big Debate

Naomi Lubick
Science 25 July 2003: 451.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANGIOGENESIS:
A Boost for Tumor Starvation

Jean Marx
Science 25 July 2003: 452-454.
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WORKFORCE DIVERSITY:
NIH Program Gives Minorities a Chance to Make Their MARC

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 25 July 2003: 455-456.
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GENETICS:
Scientists Dream of 1001 Complex Mice

Gretchen Vogel
Science 25 July 2003: 456-457.
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EVOLUTION 2003 MEETING:
Male Bugs Sponge Off of Their Mates

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 25 July 2003: 458.
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EVOLUTION 2003 MEETING:
Garden Flower Evolves Into Weed

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 25 July 2003: 458-459.
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EVOLUTION 2003 MEETING:
Genetic Deficiency Blamed on Bacteria

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 25 July 2003: 459.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 25 July 2003: 462.
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 Formation of Planets: Disks or Cores?

Jonathan Lunine; and Alan Boss
Science 25 July 2003: 462.
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 Science and Security: A European View

Theo Wallimann
Science 25 July 2003: 462-463.
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 Is There Really a Leak in the Pipeline?

Kevin T. Kilty
Science 25 July 2003: 463.
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 Genes and Risk

Dan S. Sharp
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
The Ancients' Views of Science

Bridie Andrews
Science 25 July 2003: 464-465.
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Can One Forget to Remember?

Stephen J. Ceci
Science 25 July 2003: 465.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

GENETICS:
FDA Races in Wrong Direction

Susanne B. Haga and J. Craig Venter
Science 25 July 2003: 466.
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Cannibals Defy Starvation and Avoid Sporulation

Hanna Engelberg-Kulka and Ronen Hazan
Science 25 July 2003: 467-468.
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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Global Climate Change Strikes a Tropical Lake

Daniel A. Livingstone
Science 25 July 2003: 468-469.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Climate Change at Cruising Altitude?

Brian J. Hoskins
Science 25 July 2003: 469-470.
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CHEMISTRY: Colloidal Molecules and Beyond

Alfons van Blaaderen
Science 25 July 2003: 470-471.
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Review

Invertebrate Ecological Immunology

J. Rolff and M. T. Siva-Jothy
Science 25 July 2003: 472-475.
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Brevia

 Molecular Phylogenies Link Rates of Evolution and Speciation

Andrea J. Webster, Robert J. H. Payne, and Mark Pagel
Science 25 July 2003: 478.
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Research Articles

Contributions of Anthropogenic and Natural Forcing to Recent Tropopause Height Changes

B. D. Santer, M. F. Wehner, T. M. L. Wigley, R. Sausen, G. A. Meehl, K. E. Taylor, C. Ammann, J. Arblaster, W. M. Washington, J. S. Boyle, and W. Brüggemann
Science 25 July 2003: 479-483.
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Dense Packing and Symmetry in Small Clusters of Microspheres

Vinothan N. Manoharan, Mark T. Elsesser, and David J. Pine
Science 25 July 2003: 483-487.
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Cell Therapy of -Sarcoglycan Null Dystrophic Mice Through Intra-Arterial Delivery of Mesoangioblasts

Maurilio Sampaolesi, Yvan Torrente, Anna Innocenzi, Rossana Tonlorenzi, Giuseppe D'Antona, M. Antonietta Pellegrino, Rita Barresi, Nereo Bresolin, M. Gabriella Cusella De Angelis, Kevin P. Campbell, Roberto Bottinelli, and Giulio Cossu
Science 25 July 2003: 487-492.
Published online 10 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1082254] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Enhanced Optical Emission During Crab Giant Radio Pulses

A. Shearer, B. Stappers, P. O'Connor, A. Golden, R. Strom, M. Redfern, and O. Ryan
Science 25 July 2003: 493-495.
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30,000 Years of Hydrothermal Activity at the Lost City Vent Field

Gretchen L. Früh-Green, Deborah S. Kelley, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Jeffrey A. Karson, Kristin A. Ludwig, David A. Butterfield, Chiara Boschi, and Giora Proskurowski
Science 25 July 2003: 495-498.
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First-Principles Calculations of PuO_2±x

L. Petit, A. Svane, Z. Szotek, and W. M. Temmerman
Science 25 July 2003: 498-501.
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The Archaeology of Ushki Lake, Kamchatka, and the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas

Ted Goebel, Michael R. Waters, and Margarita Dikova
Science 25 July 2003: 501-505.
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Ecological Consequences of a Century of Warming in Lake Tanganyika

Piet Verburg, Robert E. Hecky, and Hedy Kling
Science 25 July 2003: 505-507.
Published online 26 June 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1084846] (in Science Express Reports)
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Whales Before Whaling in the North Atlantic

Joe Roman and Stephen R. Palumbi
Science 25 July 2003: 508-510.
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Cannibalism by Sporulating Bacteria

José E. González-Pastor, Errett C. Hobbs, and Richard Losick
Science 25 July 2003: 510-513.
Published online 19 June 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086462] (in Science Express Reports)
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VDAC2 Inhibits BAK Activation and Mitochondrial Apoptosis

Emily H.-Y. Cheng, Tatiana V. Sheiko, Jill K. Fisher, William J. Craigen, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Science 25 July 2003: 513-517.
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The Distribution of Active Force Generators Controls Mitotic Spindle Position

Stephan W. Grill, Jonathon Howard, Erik Schäffer, Ernst H. K. Stelzer, and Anthony A. Hyman
Science 25 July 2003: 518-521.
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Role of Subplate Neurons in Functional Maturation of Visual Cortical Columns

Patrick O. Kanold, Prakash Kara, R. Clay Reid, and Carla J. Shatz
Science 25 July 2003: 521-525.
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Melanopsin Is Required for Non-Image-Forming Photic Responses in Blind Mice

Satchidananda Panda, Ignacio Provencio, Daniel C. Tu, Susana S. Pires, Mark D. Rollag, Ana Maria Castrucci, Mathew T. Pletcher, Trey K. Sato, Tim Wiltshire, Mary Andahazy, Steve A. Kay, Russell N. Van Gelder, and John B. Hogenesch
Science 25 July 2003: 525-527.
Published online 26 June 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086179] (in Science Express Reports)
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "On the Origin of Interictal Activity in Human Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Vitro"

Christian Wozny, Anatol Kivi, Thomas-Nicolas Lehmann, Christoph Dehnicke, Uwe Heinemann, and Joachim Behr
Science 25 July 2003: 463.
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 Response to Comment on "On the Origin of Interictal Activity in Human Temporal Lobe Epilepsy in Vitro"

Ivan Cohen, Vincent Navarro, Gilles Huberfeld, Stéphane Clemenceau, Michel Baulac, and Richard Miles
Science 25 July 2003: 463.
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