This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science and the Information Society

Jane Lubchenco and Shuichi Iwata
Science 12 September 2003: 1443.
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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

RESEARCH FUNDING:
U.S. Biodefense Boom: Eight New Study Centers

David Malakoff
Science 12 September 2003: 1450-1451.
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2004 BUDGET:
Senate Bill Boosts NSF Funds for Underserved Groups

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 September 2003: 1450.
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SPACE SHUTTLE:
The Missing Item in NASA's New Flight Plan: Money

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 September 2003: 1451.
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ELECTROCHEMISTRY:
Microbes Sweet on Making Power

Robert F. Service
Science 12 September 2003: 1453.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Vaccine-Autism Link Dealt Blow

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 September 2003: 1454-1455.
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RETRACTION:
Paper on Toxic Party Drug Is Pulled Over Vial Mix-Up

Constance Holden
Science 12 September 2003: 1454.
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POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING:
Pro-Union Vote Ups the Ante for Postdocs

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 12 September 2003: 1455.
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FUSION RESEARCH:
Panel Tells E.U. It Could Go ITER Way

Daniel Clery and Xavier Bosch
Science 12 September 2003: 1456-1457.
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POLYGRAPH TESTING:
DOE Says Fewer Workers Will Face the Machine

David Malakoff
Science 12 September 2003: 1456.
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MEDICINE:
Sugary Cloak Protects Platelets From the Cold

Jennifer Couzin
Science 12 September 2003: 1457.
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HISTORICAL PRESERVATION:
Sweden Launches a Desperate Bid to Save Famous Warship

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 September 2003: 1459.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

RUSSIA:
Haunted by Red October

Paul Webster
Science 12 September 2003: 1460-1463.
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RUSSIA:
Hoping to Lay a Radioactive Ghost Ship to Rest, at Last

Fiona Proffitt
Science 12 September 2003: 1461.
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PHYSICS:
Money Spinner or Loopy Idea?

Edwin Cartlidge
Science 12 September 2003: 1463-1465.
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4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMBIOSIS SOCIETY CONGRESS:
Fungi Shield New Host Plants From Heat and Drought

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 September 2003: 1466.
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4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMBIOSIS SOCIETY CONGRESS:
Scurrying Larvae Join Seaweed Society

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 September 2003: 1466-1467.
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4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMBIOSIS SOCIETY CONGRESS:
Worms Open Route to Whale Bones

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 September 2003: 1467.
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4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMBIOSIS SOCIETY CONGRESS:
Fixers in the Sky

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 September 2003: 1467.
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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Visualization and the Communication of Science

Monica Bradford and Curt Suplee
Science 12 September 2003: 1472-1473.
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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Photography

Naomi Lubick
Science 12 September 2003: 1472-1473.
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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Multimedia

Naomi Lubick
Science 12 September 2003: 1474-1476.
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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING VISUALIZATION CHALLENGE:
Illustration

Naomi Lubick
Science 12 September 2003: 1476-1477.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Retraction

George A. Ricaurte, Jie Yuan, George Hatzidimitriou, Branden J. Cord, and Una D. McCann
Science 12 September 2003: 1479.
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 Metaphors, Misuse, and Misconceptions

Robert Maslansky;, Jens Brümmer;, Gad Perry, Frederick W. Schueler;, Matthew K. Chew, and Manfred D. Laubichler
Science 12 September 2003: 1479-1482.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MEDICINE:
A Yankee in King Gustav's Court

Sydney Brenner
Science 12 September 2003: 1483.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
Which Future for Humanity?

Roger A. Pielke Jr.
Science 12 September 2003: 1483-1484.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Enhanced: Educating Future Scientists

Nancy S. Sung, Jeffrey I. Gordon, George D. Rose, Elizabeth D. Getzoff, Stephen J. Kron, David Mumford, José N. Onuchic, Norbert F. Scherer, DeWitt L. Sumners, and Nancy J. Kopell
Science 12 September 2003: 1485.
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Perspectives

PARASITOLOGY:
Guilty Until Proven Otherwise

Andrew P. Waters
Science 12 September 2003: 1487-1488.
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ECOLOGY:
Metalife!

Andy Dobson
Science 12 September 2003: 1488-1490.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Orienting Stem Cells

Matthew R. Wallenfang and Erika Matunis
Science 12 September 2003: 1490-1491.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Tracking Fresh Water from Space

Douglas E. Alsdorf and Dennis P. Lettenmaier
Science 12 September 2003: 1491-1494.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
The Power of Speech

Lawrence Rabiner
Science 12 September 2003: 1494-1495.
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Review

Toxins-Antitoxins: Plasmid Maintenance, Programmed Cell Death, and Cell Cycle Arrest

Finbarr Hayes
Science 12 September 2003: 1496-1499.
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Brevia

 Covalent Bond Formation to a Carbon Nanotube Metal

K. Kamaras, M. E. Itkis, H. Hu, B. Zhao, and R. C. Haddon
Science 12 September 2003: 1501.
Metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes can be changed into semiconductors by reacting them with dichloromethane. Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Research Article

Discovery of Gene Function by Expression Profiling of the Malaria Parasite Life Cycle

Karine G. Le Roch, Yingyao Zhou, Peter L. Blair, Muni Grainger, J. Kathleen Moch, J. David Haynes, Patricia De la Vega, Anthony A. Holder, Serge Batalov, Daniel J. Carucci, and Elizabeth A. Winzeler
Science 12 September 2003: 1503-1508.
Published online 31 July 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1087025] (in Science Express Research Articles)
The full complement of genes expressed by the malaria-causing parasite has been described for two of its life stages: in human red blood cells and in the mosquito. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Kinematic Evidence for an Old Stellar Halo in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Dante Minniti, Jura Borissova, Marina Rejkuba, David R. Alves, Kem H. Cook, and Kenneth C. Freeman
Science 12 September 2003: 1508-1510.
The detection of a halo of hot, metal-poor stars in a small galaxy, resembling the halos of large galaxies, implies that both types of galaxy had similar early histories. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Preparation of a Pure Molecular Quantum Gas

Jens Herbig, Tobias Kraemer, Michael Mark, Tino Weber, Cheng Chin, Hanns-Christoph Nägerl, and Rudolf Grimm
Science 12 September 2003: 1510-1513.
Published online 21 August 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1088876] (in Science Express Reports)
A cloud of pure cesium molecules is separated from the atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate by magnetic levitation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Cooling Bose-Einstein Condensates Below 500 Picokelvin

A. E. Leanhardt, T. A. Pasquini, M. Saba, A. Schirotzek, Y. Shin, D. Kielpinski, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle
Science 12 September 2003: 1513-1515.
A gravitational and magnetic atom trap is used to cool a sodium atom cloud below 500 picokelvin, a realm in which new quantum interactions may emerge. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Observation of Polymer Conformation Hysteresis in Extensional Flow

Charles M. Schroeder, Hazen P. Babcock, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, and Steven Chu
Science 12 September 2003: 1515-1519.
When placed in a flowing fluid, long strands of Escherichia coli DNA may either stretch or coil, depending on their deformation history. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Electronic Structure Control of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Functionalization

Michael S. Strano, Christopher A. Dyke, Monica L. Usrey, Paul W. Barone, Mathew J. Allen, Hongwei Shan, Carter Kittrell, Robert H. Hauge, James M. Tour, and Richard E. Smalley
Science 12 September 2003: 1519-1522.
In mixtures of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes, diazonium preferentially reacts only with the metallic tubes, allowing their identification and separation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Anomalous Nitrogen Isotope Ratio in Comets

Claude Arpigny, Emmanuël Jehin, Jean Manfroid, Damien Hutsemékers, Rita Schulz, J. A. Stüwe, Jean-Marc Zucconi, and Ilya Ilyin
Science 12 September 2003: 1522-1524.
The nitrogen isotopes of cyanide molecules in two comets differ from those of their known sources, implying that those comets collected a diverse set of organic molecules in the early solar system. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Metapopulation Persistence with Age-Dependent Disturbance or Succession

Alan Hastings
Science 12 September 2003: 1525-1526.
A more accurate estimate of how organisms survive in a fragmented ecosystem is obtained by taking into account the ages of the intact patches. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Use of Genetic Profiling in Leprosy to Discriminate Clinical Forms of the Disease

Joshua R. Bleharski, Huiying Li, Christoph Meinken, Thomas G. Graeber, Maria-Teresa Ochoa, Masahiro Yamamura, Anne Burdick, Euzenir N. Sarno, Manfred Wagner, Martin Röllinghoff, Thomas H. Rea, Marco Colonna, Steffen Stenger, Barry R. Bloom, David Eisenberg, and Robert L. Modlin
Science 12 September 2003: 1527-1530.
The levels of an immune receptor that suppresses the host's own defenses determine whether the leprosy bacterium causes a limited or a more severe, disseminated form of the disease. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Glycosylation Restores Survival of Chilled Blood Platelets

Karin M. Hoffmeister, Emma C. Josefsson, Natasha A. Isaac, Henrik Clausen, John H. Hartwig, and Thomas P. Stossel
Science 12 September 2003: 1531-1534.
A simple enzyme treatment prevents cold-induced aggregation of platelets, which could eliminate the major problem with the storage of donated platelets and, thus, their chronic shortage. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Antiretroviral Drugs for Tuberculosis Control in the Era of HIV/AIDS

Brian G. Williams and Christopher Dye
Science 12 September 2003: 1535-1537.
Published online 14 August 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086845] (in Science Express Reports)
HIV antiviral drugs can somewhat reduce the risk of tuberculosis (which often co-occurs with HIV), especially if given very early after HIV infection. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Resistance to Enediyne Antitumor Antibiotics by CalC Self-Sacrifice

John B. Biggins, Kenolisa C. Onwueme, and Jon S. Thorson
Science 12 September 2003: 1537-1541.
A bacterium is protected from its own potent antibiotic by a protein that cleaves the antibiotic, detoxifying it and inactivating itself in the process. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Basis of a Phototropin Light Switch

Shannon M. Harper, Lori C. Neil, and Kevin H. Gardner
Science 12 September 2003: 1541-1544.
Blue light disrupts the association between a helix and a protein domain in a phototropin protein, triggering downstream signal transduction. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Transport of dsRNA into Cells by the Transmembrane Protein SID-1

Evan H. Feinberg and Craig P. Hunter
Science 12 September 2003: 1545-1547.
A transmembrane protein acts as a channel for the passive uptake of double-stranded RNA into invertebrate cells, facilitating the spread of RNAi from cell to cell. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Orientation of Asymmetric Stem Cell Division by the APC Tumor Suppressor and Centrosome

Yukiko M. Yamashita, D. Leanne Jones, and Margaret T. Fuller
Science 12 September 2003: 1547-1550.
The orientation of dividing stem cells is fixed with respect to their neighbors, assuring the proper balance between stem and daughter cells. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "Molecular Correlates of Primate Nuclear Transfer Failures"

Robert Lanza, Young Chung, Michael D. West, and Keith H. S. Campbell
Science 12 September 2003: 1482.
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 Response to Comment on "Molecular Correlates of Primate Nuclear Transfer Failures"

G. Schatten, C. Navara, C. Payne, S. Capuano, G. Gosman, K.-Y. Chong, D. Takahashi, C. Chace, L. Hewitson, C. Simerly, D. Compton, and T. Dominko
Science 12 September 2003: 1482.
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 Comment on "Hexapod Origins: Monophyletic or Paraphyletic?"

Frédéric Delsuc, Matthew J. Phillips, and David Penny
Science 12 September 2003: 1482.
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 Response to Comment on "Hexapod Origins: Monophyletic or Paraphyletic?"

Francesco Nardi, Giacomo Spinsanti, Jeffrey L. Boore, Antonio Carapelli, Romano Dallai, and Francesco Frati
Science 12 September 2003: 1482.
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