State of the Planet

Viewpoints

Tropical Soils and Food Security: The Next 50 Years

M. A. Stocking
Science 21 November 2003: 1356-1359.
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The Future for Fisheries

Daniel Pauly, Jackie Alder, Elena Bennett, Villy Christensen, Peter Tyedmers, and Reg Watson
Science 21 November 2003: 1359-1361.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Industry and Academia in Transition

Donald Kennedy
Science 21 November 2003: 1293.
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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

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
VA's Controversial Chief of Research Said to Be Leaving

Jennifer Couzin
Science 21 November 2003: 1306.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Venter Cooks Up a Synthetic Genome in Record Time

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 November 2003: 1307.
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REBUILDING IRAQ:
Science Minister Starts From Scratch

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 November 2003: 1307-1309.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
AIDS Vaccine Still Alive as Booster After Second Failure in Thailand

Jon Cohen
Science 21 November 2003: 1309-1310.
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MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS:
Nanodevices Make Fresh Strides Toward Reality

Robert F. Service
Science 21 November 2003: 1310.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Mothers' Malaria Appears to Enhance Spread of AIDS Virus

Jon Cohen
Science 21 November 2003: 1311.
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RADIO ASTRONOMY:
New Telescope in Hawaii Is Big Step Up for Taiwan

Dennis Normile
Science 21 November 2003: 1313.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Japan 'Hopes' to Avoid Crash of Ill-Fated Mars Probe

Govert Schilling
Science 21 November 2003: 1313.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MASS EXTINCTION:
Has an Impact Done It Again?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 November 2003: 1314-1316.
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MASS EXTINCTION:
Extinction by a Whoosh, Not a Bang?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 November 2003: 1315.
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PROTEOMICS:
Public Projects Gear Up to Chart the Protein Landscape

Robert F. Service
Science 21 November 2003: 1316-1318.
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PROTEOMICS:
A Sharper Focus

Robert F. Service
Science 21 November 2003: 1318.
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ASTRONOMY:
Tailor-Made Weather Forecasts Help Star-Gazers Look Ahead

Dennis Normile
Science 21 November 2003: 1319.
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
Caudate-Over-Heels in Love

Laura Helmuth
Science 21 November 2003: 1320.
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
CO Gas Joins Brain Signaling Team

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 21 November 2003: 1320-1323.
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
Pills and Games Help Conquer Fear

Greg Miller
Science 21 November 2003: 1321.
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
Neurons Get Connected Via Glia

Greg Miller
Science 21 November 2003: 1323.
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SOCIETY FOR NEUROSCIENCE MEETING:
Birds Can Put Two and Two Together

Laura Helmuth
Science 21 November 2003: 1323.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 28 November 2003: 1329.
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 Hydrogen Cars and Water Vapor

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., Roberta Klein, Genevieve Maricle, Thomas Chase;, David W. Keith, and Alexander E. Farrell
Science 21 November 2003: 1329.
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 What About the Shortcuts?

Michael P. Totten;, David W. Keith, and Alexander E. Farrell
Science 21 November 2003: 1329-1331.
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 The Bush Administration and Hydrogen

David Garman;, John M. Eiler, Tracey K. Tromp, Run-Lie Shia, Mark Allen, Yuk L. Yung;, David W. Keith, and Alexander E. Farrell
Science 21 November 2003: 1331-1333.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS:

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Books et al.

GEOSCIENCE:
Hard Rock History

Donald H. Lindsley
Science 21 November 2003: 1334.
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CHEMISTRY:
A Full Account of Holey Material

Steven L. Suib
Science 21 November 2003: 1335.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Nota Bene: Wonders Will Never Cease

Caroline Ash
Science 21 November 2003: 1336.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Do Defaults Save Lives?

Eric J. Johnson and Daniel Goldstein
Science 21 November 2003: 1338-1339.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Shrinking Gels Pull Cells

Alex Mogilner and George Oster
Science 21 November 2003: 1340-1341.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
SPARring with Spines

Guido Meyer and Nils Brose
Science 21 November 2003: 1341-1344.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
The Secret Lives of Roots

Susan E. Trumbore and Julia B. Gaudinski
Science 21 November 2003: 1344-1345.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
A Picosecond View of Melting

Dietrich von der Linde
Science 21 November 2003: 1345-1346.
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PHYSICS:
Marriage of Two Device Concepts

Alessandro Tredicucci
Science 21 November 2003: 1346-1347.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Learning to Speak the Language of Proteins

David T. Jones
Science 21 November 2003: 1347-1348.
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Review

Technology Challenges in Responding to Biological or Chemical Attacks in the Civilian Sector

J. Patrick Fitch, Ellen Raber, and Dennis R. Imbro
Science 21 November 2003: 1350-1354.
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Brevia

 Nematic Liquid Crystallinity of Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes

Wenhui Song, Ian A. Kinloch, and Alan H. Windle
Science 21 November 2003: 1363.
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Research Articles

Design of a Novel Globular Protein Fold with Atomic-Level Accuracy

Brian Kuhlman, Gautam Dantas, Gregory C. Ireton, Gabriele Varani, Barry L. Stoddard, and David Baker
Science 21 November 2003: 1364-1368.
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Targeted Protein Degradation and Synapse Remodeling by an Inducible Protein Kinase

Daniel T. S. Pak and Morgan Sheng
Science 21 November 2003: 1368-1373.
Published online 23 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1082475] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Quantum Cascade Surface-Emitting Photonic Crystal Laser

Raffaele Colombelli, Kartik Srinivasan, Mariano Troccoli, Oskar Painter, Claire F. Gmachl, Donald M. Tennant, A. Michael Sergent, Deborah L. Sivco, Alfred Y. Cho, and Federico Capasso
Science 21 November 2003: 1374-1377.
Published online 30 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090561] (in Science Express Reports)
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Nanowire Crossbar Arrays as Address Decoders for Integrated Nanosystems

Zhaohui Zhong, Deli Wang, Yi Cui, Marc W. Bockrath, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 21 November 2003: 1377-1379.
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DNA-Templated Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistor

Kinneret Keren, Rotem S. Berman, Evgeny Buchstab, Uri Sivan, and Erez Braun
Science 21 November 2003: 1380-1382.
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An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

Bradley J. Siwick, Jason R. Dwyer, Robert E. Jordan, and R. J. Dwayne Miller
Science 21 November 2003: 1382-1385.
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Impacts of Fine Root Turnover on Forest NPP and Soil C Sequestration Potential

Roser Matamala, Miquel A. Gonzàlez-Meler, Julie D. Jastrow, Richard J. Norby, and William H. Schlesinger
Science 21 November 2003: 1385-1387.
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Chondritic Meteorite Fragments Associated with the Permian-Triassic Boundary in Antarctica

Asish R. Basu, Michail I. Petaev, Robert J. Poreda, Stein B. Jacobsen, and Luann Becker
Science 21 November 2003: 1388-1392.
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Chemostratigraphic Evidence of Deccan Volcanism from the Marine Osmium Isotope Record

G. Ravizza and B. Peucker-Ehrenbrink
Science 21 November 2003: 1392-1395.
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Three-Dimensional Structure of Herpes Simplex Virus from Cryo-Electron Tomography

Kay Grünewald, Prashant Desai, Dennis C. Winkler, J. Bernard Heymann, David M. Belnap, Wolfgang Baumeister, and Alasdair C. Steven
Science 21 November 2003: 1396-1398.
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Nucleolar Clustering of Dispersed tRNA Genes

Martin Thompson, Rebecca A. Haeusler, Paul D. Good, and David R. Engelke
Science 21 November 2003: 1399-1401.
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The Origins of Genome Complexity

Michael Lynch and John S. Conery
Science 21 November 2003: 1401-1404.
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Retraction in Amoeboid Cell Motility Powered by Cytoskeletal Dynamics

Long Miao, Orion Vanderlinde, Murray Stewart, and Thomas M. Roberts
Science 21 November 2003: 1405-1407.
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Synchronization of Cellular Clocks in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus

Shun Yamaguchi, Hiromi Isejima, Takuya Matsuo, Ryusuke Okura, Kazuhiro Yagita, Masaki Kobayashi, and Hitoshi Okamura
Science 21 November 2003: 1408-1412.
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Diverse Psychotomimetics Act Through a Common Signaling Pathway

Per Svenningsson, Eleni T. Tzavara, Robert Carruthers, Ilan Rachleff, Sigrid Wattler, Michael Nehls, David L. McKinzie, Allen A. Fienberg, George G. Nomikos, and Paul Greengard
Science 21 November 2003: 1412-1415.
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Abnormal Coronary Function in Mice Deficient in _1H T-type Ca²⁺ Channels

Chien-Chang Chen, Kathryn G. Lamping, Daniel W. Nuno, Rita Barresi, Sally J. Prouty, Julie L. Lavoie, Leanne L. Cribbs, Sarah K. England, Curt D. Sigmund, Robert M. Weiss, Roger A. Williamson, Joseph A. Hill, and Kevin P. Campbell
Science 21 November 2003: 1416-1418.
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