State of the Planet

The Shape We're In

H. Jesse Smith
Science 14 November 2003: 1171.
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Viewpoints

Human Population: The Next Half Century

Joel E. Cohen
Science 14 November 2003: 1172-1175.
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Prospects for Biodiversity

Martin Jenkins
Science 14 November 2003: 1175-1177.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Future of German Science Funding

Karl Einhäupl
Science 14 November 2003: 1115.
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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

NEW FACILITIES:
ITER Tops DOE's List of Next Big Science Projects

David Malakoff and Adrian Cho
Science 14 November 2003: 1126-1127.
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PRIMATE RESEARCH:
U.K. Mulls Military 'Safe Haven' for Embattled Center

Richard Stone
Science 14 November 2003: 1127.
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The Eyes of Texas Are Upon Him

Science 14 November 2003: 1127.
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CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS:
Competing Research Teams Create Long-Sought State of Matter

Charles Seife
Science 14 November 2003: 1129.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Europe Forced to Turn Blind Eye to Far-Flung Planets

Daniel Clery
Science 14 November 2003: 1130.
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TEACHING EVOLUTION:
Texas Resolves War Over Biology Texts

Constance Holden
Science 14 November 2003: 1130.
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EARTH OBSERVATION:
Loss of Japanese Satellite Narrows Window on World Climate

Dennis Normile
Science 14 November 2003: 1131.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Brain Model Puts Most Sophisticated Regions Front and Center

Laura Helmuth
Science 14 November 2003: 1133.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Minerals Cooked Up in the Laboratory Call Ancient Microfossils Into Question

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 November 2003: 1134.
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PHARMACOGENOMICS:
FDA Puts the Brakes on Roche's Gene Array Test

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 14 November 2003: 1134.
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MARINE RESEARCH:
A Plan to Go Where Few Have Gone Before

David Malakoff
Science 14 November 2003: 1135.
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OCEAN SCIENCE:
Report Says U.S. Needs Bigger Deep-Sea Fleet

David Malakoff
Science 14 November 2003: 1135.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ESTROGEN RESEARCH:
The Great Estrogen Conundrum

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 November 2003: 1136-1138.
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ESTROGEN RESEARCH:
Brain Researchers Try to Salvage Estrogen Treatments

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 14 November 2003: 1138-1139.
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VIROLOGY:
New Vaccine and Treatment Excite Ebola Researchers

Martin Enserink
Science 14 November 2003: 1141-1142.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING:
Mammal Menagerie

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 November 2003: 1142.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING:
Early Whales Get All Wet

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 November 2003: 1142-1143.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING:
Mastodon Gladiators

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 November 2003: 1143.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 14 November 2003: 1149.
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 Three-Gorges Dam: Risk to Ancient Fish

Ping Xie;, Jianguo Wu, Jianghui Huang, and Xingguo Han
Science 14 November 2003: 1149-1151.
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 Have Clouds Darkened Since 1995?

Zhanqing Li, Thomas P. Ackerman, Warren Wiscombe, Graeme L. Stephens;, and Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 November 2003: 1151-1152.
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 A Fine, Midsize City in Former East Germany

Robert Etges
Science 14 November 2003: 1152-1153.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
A Tale Meant to Inform, Not to Amuse

Susan M. Squier
Science 14 November 2003: 1154-1155.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
A Case for Constraints

Timothy Lenoir
Science 14 November 2003: 1155-1156.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

EDUCATION:
Funding Roller Coaster for Public Higher Education

Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro
Science 14 November 2003: 1157.
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Perspectives

AGRICULTURE:
Prehistoric GM Corn

Nina V. Fedoroff
Science 14 November 2003: 1158-1159.
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PHYSICS:
Enhanced: Flux Quanta on the Move

Hans Hilgenkamp, Victor V. Moshchalkov, and Peter Kes
Science 14 November 2003: 1159-1160.
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Evolution of the Social Brain

Robin Dunbar
Science 14 November 2003: 1160-1161.
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ASTRONOMY:
Elusive Supernova Progenitors

Schuyler D. Van Dyk
Science 14 November 2003: 1161-1162.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Switching Off TCR Signaling

Bernard Malissen
Science 14 November 2003: 1162-1163.
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OCEAN SCIENCE:
Whither Antarctic Sea Ice?

Eric W. Wolff
Science 14 November 2003: 1164.
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Review

The Sun and Heliosphere at Solar Maximum

E. J. Smith, R. G. Marsden, A. Balogh, G. Gloeckler, J. Geiss, D. J. McComas, R. B. McKibben, R. J. MacDowall, L. J. Lanzerotti, N. Krupp, H. Krueger, and M. Landgraf
Science 14 November 2003: 1165-1169.
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Brevia

 Generation of Fertile Cloned Rats by Regulating Oocyte Activation

Qi Zhou, Jean-Paul Renard, Gaëlle Le Friec, Vincent Brochard, Nathalie Beaujean, Yacine Cherifi, Alexandre Fraichard, and Jean Cozzi
Science 14 November 2003: 1179.
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Research Article

The Architecture of Cognitive Control in the Human Prefrontal Cortex

Etienne Koechlin, Chrystèle Ody, and Frédérique Kouneiher
Science 14 November 2003: 1181-1185.
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Reports

Persistence of Memory in Drop Breakup: The Breakdown of Universality

Pankaj Doshi, Itai Cohen, Wendy W. Zhang, Michael Siegel, Peter Howell, Osman A. Basaran, and Sidney R. Nagel
Science 14 November 2003: 1185-1188.
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A Superconducting Reversible Rectifier That Controls the Motion of Magnetic Flux Quanta

J. E. Villegas, Sergey Savel'ev, Franco Nori, E. M. Gonzalez, J. V. Anguita, R. García, and J. L. Vicent
Science 14 November 2003: 1188-1191.
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Stability of Peroxide-Containing Uranyl Minerals

Karrie-Ann Hughes Kubatko, Katheryn B. Helean, Alexandra Navrotsky, and Peter C. Burns
Science 14 November 2003: 1191-1193.
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Self-Assembled Silica-Carbonate Structures and Detection of Ancient Microfossils

J. M. García-Ruiz, S. T. Hyde, A. M. Carnerup, A. G. Christy, M. J. Van Kranendonk, and N. J. Welham
Science 14 November 2003: 1194-1197.
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Intraslab Earthquakes: Dehydration of the Cascadia Slab

Leiph A. Preston, Kenneth C. Creager, Robert S. Crosson, Thomas M. Brocher, and Anne M. Trehu
Science 14 November 2003: 1197-1200.
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Detection of a Human Influence on North American Climate

David J. Karoly, Karl Braganza, Peter A. Stott, Julie M. Arblaster, Gerald A. Meehl, Anthony J. Broccoli, and Keith W. Dixon
Science 14 November 2003: 1200-1203.
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Ice Core Evidence for Antarctic Sea Ice Decline Since the 1950s

Mark A. J. Curran, Tas D. van Ommen, Vin I. Morgan, Katrina L. Phillips, and Anne S. Palmer
Science 14 November 2003: 1203-1206.
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Early Allelic Selection in Maize as Revealed by Ancient DNA

Viviane Jaenicke-Després, Ed S. Buckler, Bruce D. Smith, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Alan Cooper, John Doebley, and Svante Pääbo
Science 14 November 2003: 1206-1208.
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Control of Nutrient-Sensitive Transcription Programs by the Unconventional Prefoldin URI

Matthias Gstaiger, Brian Luke, Daniel Hess, Edward J. Oakeley, Christiane Wirbelauer, Marc Blondel, Marc Vigneron, Matthias Peter, and Wilhelm Krek
Science 14 November 2003: 1208-1212.
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CLIP Identifies Nova-Regulated RNA Networks in the Brain

Jernej Ule, Kirk B. Jensen, Matteo Ruggiu, Aldo Mele, Aljaz Ule, and Robert B. Darnell
Science 14 November 2003: 1212-1215.
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Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Can Lower Amyloidogenic Aß₄₂ by Inhibiting Rho

Yan Zhou, Yuan Su, Baolin Li, Feng Liu, John W. Ryder, Xin Wu, Patricia A. Gonzalez-DeWhitt, Valentina Gelfanova, John E. Hale, Patrick C. May, Steven M. Paul, and Binhui Ni
Science 14 November 2003: 1215-1217.
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The Immunological Synapse Balances T Cell Receptor Signaling and Degradation

Kyeong-Hee Lee, Aaron R. Dinner, Chun Tu, Gabriele Campi, Subhadip Raychaudhuri, Rajat Varma, Tasha N. Sims, W. Richard Burack, Hui Wu, Julia Wang, Osami Kanagawa, Mary Markiewicz, Paul M. Allen, Michael L. Dustin, Arup K. Chakraborty, and Andrey S. Shaw
Science 14 November 2003: 1218-1222.
Published online 25 September 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1086507] (in Science Express Reports)
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Islet Regeneration During the Reversal of Autoimmune Diabetes in NOD Mice

Shohta Kodama, Willem Kühtreiber, Satoshi Fujimura, Elizabeth A. Dale, and Denise L. Faustman
Science 14 November 2003: 1223-1227.
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A Genetic Screen in Drosophila for Metastatic Behavior

Raymond A. Pagliarini and Tian Xu
Science 14 November 2003: 1227-1231.
Published online 9 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1088474] (in Science Express Reports)
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Social Bonds of Female Baboons Enhance Infant Survival

Joan B. Silk, Susan C. Alberts, and Jeanne Altmann
Science 14 November 2003: 1231-1234.
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Hierarchical Classification by Rank and Kinship in Baboons

Thore J. Bergman, Jacinta C. Beehner, Dorothy L. Cheney, and Robert M. Seyfarth
Science 14 November 2003: 1234-1236.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Chromosomal Instability and Tumors Promoted by DNA Hypomethylation" and "Induction of Tumors in Mice by Genomic Hypomethylation"

Allen S. Yang, Marcos R.H. Estecio, Guillermo Garcia-Manero, Hagop M. Kantarjian, and Jean-Pierre J. Issa
Science 14 November 2003: 1153.
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 Response to Comment on "Chromosomal Instability and Tumors Promoted by DNA Hypomethylation" and "Induction of Tumors in Mice by Genomic Hypomethylation"

Amir Eden, François Gaudet, and Rudolf Jaenisch
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