This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Challenge for the EU

Pierre Papon
Science 1 August 2003: 565.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 1 August 2003: 567.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 1 August 2003: 573.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 1 August 2003: 663.

News of the Week

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
A Low-Stress Scheme for Overhauling NIH's Structure

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 August 2003: 574-575.
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GLOBAL CHANGE:
New Climate Science Plan Garners Split Opinions

David Malakoff
Science 1 August 2003: 575-577.
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STEM CELLS:
Visiting German Profs Could Face Jail

Gretchen Vogel
Science 1 August 2003: 577.
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FORENSIC SCIENCE:
Reformers Aim to Shake Up British System

Keri Page
Science 1 August 2003: 579-580.
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INTERNATIONAL HEALTH:
U.S., Italy Plan Joint Research Effort

Chris Berrie
Science 1 August 2003: 579.
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PHYSICS:
Quantum Dots Chemically Wired for Spintronics

Robert F. Service
Science 1 August 2003: 580.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
European Union Plans for Its Own CDC

Giselle Weiss
Science 1 August 2003: 581.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL REPORT: A MUSEUM LOOTED:
Mayhem in Mesopotamia

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 August 2003: 582-588.
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NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL REPORT: A MUSEUM LOOTED:
State Board Hopes for Fresh Start

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 August 2003: 585.
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NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL REPORT:
Researchers Weigh In on Trading

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 August 2003: 588-589.
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NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL REPORT:
Sites in Hinterland Present Ripe Targets for Looters

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 August 2003: 589.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 1 August 2003: 595.
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 Editor Bias on Climate Change?

S. Fred Singer; and Donald Kennedy
Science 1 August 2003: 595-596.
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 Dating the Sterkfontein Fossils

R. J. Clarke, T. C. Partridge, D. E. Granger, M.W. Caffe;, and Ann Gibbons
Science 1 August 2003: 596-597.
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 Politically Correct or a Bad Decision?

Leonid V. Azaroff
Science 1 August 2003: 597-598.
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 Early U.S. Interest in Hypersonic Flight

Steven T. Corneliussen
Science 1 August 2003: 598.
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Books et al.

DEVELOPMENT:
X and Y, A Wild Pair

Nancy L. Segal
Science 1 August 2003: 599-600.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PERCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE:
Tap into Science 24-7

Terrence J. Sejnowski
Science 1 August 2003: 601.
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Perspectives

STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Breaching the Barrier

Kaspar P. Locher, Randal B. Bass, and Douglas C. Rees
Science 1 August 2003: 603-604.
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PHYSICS:
Getting Entangled in Free Space

J. G. Rarity
Science 1 August 2003: 604-605.
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PHYSICS:
Getting a Grip on Turbulence

Roberto Benzi
Science 1 August 2003: 605-606.
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DEVELOPMENT:
There's Something Curious About Paternal-Age Effects

James F. Crow
Science 1 August 2003: 606-607.
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CHEMISTRY:
Electrons as Anions

James L. Dye
Science 1 August 2003: 607-608.
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Brevia

 Reconstruction of the Proto-Mitochondrial Metabolism

Toni Gabaldón and Martijn A. Huynen
Science 1 August 2003: 609.
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Research Articles

Structure and Mechanism of the Lactose Permease of Escherichia coli

Jeff Abramson, Irina Smirnova, Vladimir Kasho, Gillian Verner, H. Ronald Kaback, and So Iwata
Science 1 August 2003: 610-615.
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Structure and Mechanism of the Glycerol-3-Phosphate Transporter from Escherichia coli

Yafei Huang, M. Joanne Lemieux, Jinmei Song, Manfred Auer, and Da-Neng Wang
Science 1 August 2003: 616-620.
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Reports

Long-Distance Free-Space Distribution of Quantum Entanglement

Markus Aspelmeyer, Hannes R. Böhm, Tsewang Gyatso, Thomas Jennewein, Rainer Kaltenbaek, Michael Lindenthal, Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Andreas Poppe, Kevin Resch, Michael Taraba, Rupert Ursin, Philip Walther, and Anton Zeilinger
Science 1 August 2003: 621-623.
Published online 19 June 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1085593] (in Science Express Reports)
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Surface-Driven Switching of Liquid Crystals Using Redox-Active Groups on Electrodes

Yan-Yeung Luk and Nicholas L. Abbott
Science 1 August 2003: 623-626.
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High-Density Electron Anions in a Nanoporous Single Crystal: [Ca₂₄Al₂₈O₆₄]⁴⁺(4e^-)

Satoru Matsuishi, Yoshitake Toda, Masashi Miyakawa, Katsuro Hayashi, Toshio Kamiya, Masahiro Hirano, Isao Tanaka, and Hideo Hosono
Science 1 August 2003: 626-629.
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Large Trench-Parallel Gravity Variations Predict Seismogenic Behavior in Subduction Zones

Teh-Ru Alex Song and Mark Simons
Science 1 August 2003: 630-633.
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Extended Boltzmann Kinetic Equation for Turbulent Flows

Hudong Chen, Satheesh Kandasamy, Steven Orszag, Rick Shock, Sauro Succi, and Victor Yakhot
Science 1 August 2003: 633-636.
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Stratospheric Memory and Skill of Extended-Range Weather Forecasts

Mark P. Baldwin, David B. Stephenson, David W. J. Thompson,, Timothy J. Dunkerton, Andrew J. Charlton, and Alan O'Neill
Science 1 August 2003: 636-640.
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Role of Adaptor TRIF in the MyD88-Independent Toll-Like Receptor Signaling Pathway

Masahiro Yamamoto, Shintaro Sato, Hiroaki Hemmi, Katsuaki Hoshino, Tsuneyasu Kaisho, Hideki Sanjo, Osamu Takeuchi, Masanaka Sugiyama, Masaru Okabe, Kiyoshi Takeda, and Shizuo Akira
Science 1 August 2003: 640-643.
Published online 10 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1087262] (in Science Express Reports)
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Evidence for Selective Advantage of Pathogenic FGFR2 Mutations in the Male Germ Line

Anne Goriely, Gilean A. T. McVean, Maria Röjmyr, Björn Ingemarsson, and Andrew O. M. Wilkie
Science 1 August 2003: 643-646.
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A Conserved Domain in Axonal Targeting of Kv1 (Shaker) Voltage-Gated Potassium Channels

Chen Gu, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan
Science 1 August 2003: 646-649.
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Reelin Promotes Peripheral Synapse Elimination and Maturation

Carlo C. Quattrocchi, Cheng Huang, Sanyong Niu, Michael Sheldon, David Benhayon, Joiner Cartwright, Jr., Dennis R. Mosier, Flavio Keller, and Gabriella D'Arcangelo
Science 1 August 2003: 649-653.
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Genome-Wide Insertional Mutagenesis of Arabidopsis thaliana

José M. Alonso, Anna N. Stepanova, Thomas J. Leisse, Christopher J. Kim, Huaming Chen, Paul Shinn, Denise K. Stevenson, Justin Zimmerman, Pascual Barajas, Rosa Cheuk, Carmelita Gadrinab, Collen Heller, Albert Jeske, Eric Koesema, Cristina C. Meyers, Holly Parker, Lance Prednis, Yasser Ansari, Nathan Choy, Hashim Deen, Michael Geralt, Nisha Hazari, Emily Hom, Meagan Karnes, Celene Mulholland, Ral Ndubaku, Ian Schmidt, Plinio Guzman, Laura Aguilar-Henonin, Markus Schmid, Detlef Weigel, David E. Carter, Trudy Marchand, Eddy Risseeuw, Debra Brogden, Albana Zeko, William L. Crosby, Charles C. Berry, and Joseph R. Ecker
Science 1 August 2003: 653-657.
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Screening for Nitric Oxide-Dependent Protein-Protein Interactions

Akio Matsumoto, Karrie E. Comatas, Limin Liu, and Jonathan S. Stamler
Science 1 August 2003: 657-661.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?"

Nancy F. Butte and Kenneth J. Ellis
Science 1 August 2003: 598.
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 Response to Comment on "Obesity and the Environment: Where Do We Go from Here?"

James O. Hill, Holly R. Wyatt, George W. Reed, and John C. Peters
Science 1 August 2003: 598.
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