Tragedy of the Commons?

Where Do We Go from Here?

Andrew Sugden, Caroline Ash, Brooks Hanson, and Jesse Smith
Science 12 December 2003: 1906.
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Viewpoints

Social Capital and the Collective Management of Resources

Jules Pretty
Science 12 December 2003: 1912-1914.
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Managing Tragedies: Understanding Conflict over Common Pool Resources

William M. Adams, Dan Brockington, Jane Dyson, and Bhaskar Vira
Science 12 December 2003: 1915-1916.
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Global Food Security: Challenges and Policies

Mark W. Rosegrant and Sarah A. Cline
Science 12 December 2003: 1917-1919.
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New Visions for Addressing Sustainability

A. J. McMichael, C. D. Butler, and Carl Folke
Science 12 December 2003: 1919-1920.
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The Burden of Chronic Disease

C. G. Nicholas Mascie-Taylor and Enamul Karim
Science 12 December 2003: 1921-1922.
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The Challenge of Long-Term Climate Change

K. Hasselmann, M. Latif, G. Hooss, C. Azar, O. Edenhofer, C. C. Jaeger, O. M. Johannessen, C. Kemfert, M. Welp, and A. Wokaun
Science 12 December 2003: 1923-1925.
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 Climate Change: The Political Situation

Robert T. Watson
Science 12 December 2003: 1925-1926.
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Tales from a Troubled Marriage: Science and Law in Environmental Policy

Oliver Houck
Science 12 December 2003: 1926-1929.
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Review

The Struggle to Govern the Commons

Thomas Dietz, Elinor Ostrom, and Paul C. Stern
Science 12 December 2003: 1907-1912.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Sustainability and the Commons

Donald Kennedy
Science 12 December 2003: 1861.
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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

Science 12 December 2003: 1989.

News of the Week

EUROPEAN UNION:
E.U. Stem Cell Debate Ends in a Draw

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 December 2003: 1872-1873.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Defunded VA Grants Restored; Wray Returns to Texas

Jennifer Couzin
Science 12 December 2003: 1872.
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HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT:
Bush Plan for NASA: Watch This Space

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 December 2003: 1873.
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS:
Scientists Make Sperm in a Dish

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 December 2003: 1875.
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EVOLUTION:
Genome Comparisons Hold Clues to Human Evolution

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 December 2003: 1876-1877.
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EVOLUTION:
Chimp Genome Draft Online

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 December 2003: 1876.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Faults May Gang Up on Los Angeles

Robert Irion
Science 12 December 2003: 1877.
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OCEAN DRILLING:
Arctic Is First Call for New Global Program

Dennis Normile
Science 12 December 2003: 1878.
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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Patent Sprawl: From Genes to Gene Interpretation

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 December 2003: 1878.
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FOREST POLICY:
Critics Say New Law Is a Bit Thin on Science

Robert F. Service
Science 12 December 2003: 1879.
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ACADEMIC LEADERS:
Vest Steps Down as MIT President

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 December 2003: 1879.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

IMAGING:
Animal Models: Live and in Color

Jean Marx
Science 12 December 2003: 1880-1882.
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GRADUATE EDUCATION:
Who's No. 1? Academy Hopes New Rankings Will Say More

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 12 December 2003: 1883-1885.
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CAREERS:
Age Bar Forces Europe's Senior Researchers to Head West

Giselle Weiss
Science 12 December 2003: 1885-1886.
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NUTRITION:
The Vitamin D Deficit

Erik Stokstad
Science 12 December 2003: 1886-1888.
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING:
Pacific Migration Arrested by Meltdown's High Waters

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 December 2003: 1888-1889.
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GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA MEETING:
Wanderlust in the Western Margin

Richard A. Kerr
Science 12 December 2003: 1889.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 12 December 2003: 1893.
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 The Human Cost of the SSC

Spencer Klein
Science 12 December 2003: 1893.
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 The Lesson of the SSC

David P. Vernon
Science 12 December 2003: 1893.
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 Decommissioning Russia's Nuclear Subs

Paul R. Josephson
Science 12 December 2003: 1893.
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 Building a Space Weather Aerie in Armenia

Joseph Dagdigian
Science 12 December 2003: 1893.
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 Europe's Fight for the Tree of Life

Vincent Savolainen and Mark W. Chase
Science 12 December 2003: 1894.
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 Life Scientists and the Dual Use Dilemma

Laura H. Kahn
Science 12 December 2003: 1894-1895.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ENERGY RESOURCES:
A Century of Oil, a Future of Options

Daniel M. Kammen
Science 12 December 2003: 1896-1897.
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AVIATION:
Nota Bene: Steps into the Sky

Sherman J. Suter
Science 12 December 2003: 1896-1897.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Understanding Threats to Scientific Openness

James B. Petro and David A. Relman
Science 12 December 2003: 1898.
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Perspectives

PALEONTOLOGY:
Enhanced: Marsupial Origins

Richard L. Cifelli and Brian M. Davis
Science 12 December 2003: 1899-1900.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Chemical Warfare and Mycobacterial Defense

Jean Pieters and Hidde Ploegh
Science 12 December 2003: 1900-1902.
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ASTRONOMY:
The Hunt for Dark Matter in Galaxies

Ken C. Freeman
Science 12 December 2003: 1902-1903.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Ups and Downs of Wnt Signaling

Ralph Imondi and John B. Thomas
Science 12 December 2003: 1903-1904.
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CHEMISTRY:
Polymers Get Organized

David G. Bucknall and Harry L. Anderson
Science 12 December 2003: 1904-1905.
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Brevia

 Infectious Behavior in a Parasitoid

Julien Varaldi, Pierre Fouillet, Marc Ravallec, Miguel López-Ferber, Michel Boulétreau, and Frédéric Fleury
Science 12 December 2003: 1930.
Published online 16 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1088798] (in Science Express Brevia)
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Research Articles

Evidence for Persistent Flow and Aqueous Sedimentation on Early Mars

Michael C. Malin and Kenneth S. Edgett
Science 12 December 2003: 1931-1934.
Published online 13 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090544] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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An Early Cretaceous Tribosphenic Mammal and Metatherian Evolution

Zhe-Xi Luo, Qiang Ji, John R. Wible, and Chong-Xi Yuan
Science 12 December 2003: 1934-1940.
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Reports

Subkelvin Cooling NO Molecules via "Billiard-like" Collisions with Argon

Michael S. Elioff, James J. Valentini, and David W. Chandler
Science 12 December 2003: 1940-1943.
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Importance of Surface Morphology in Interstellar H₂ Formation

L. Hornekær, A. Baurichter, V. V. Petrunin, D. Field, and A. C. Luntz
Science 12 December 2003: 1943-1946.
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Fault Interactions and Large Complex Earthquakes in the Los Angeles Area

Greg Anderson, Brad Aagaard, and Ken Hudnut
Science 12 December 2003: 1946-1949.
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Doubly Ionized Carbon Observed in the Plasma Tail of Comet Kudo-Fujikawa

Matthew S. Povich, John C. Raymond, Geraint H. Jones, Michael Uzzo, Yuan-Kuen Ko, Paul D. Feldman, Peter L. Smith, Brian G. Marsden, and Thomas N. Woods
Science 12 December 2003: 1949-1952.
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Direct Observations of North Pacific Ventilation: Brine Rejection in the Okhotsk Sea

Andrey Y. Shcherbina, Lynne D. Talley, and Daniel L. Rudnick
Science 12 December 2003: 1952-1955.
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A Gene Expression Map of the Arabidopsis Root

Kenneth Birnbaum, Dennis E. Shasha, Jean Y. Wang, Jee W. Jung, Georgina M. Lambert, David W. Galbraith, and Philip N. Benfey
Science 12 December 2003: 1956-1960.
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Inferring Nonneutral Evolution from Human-Chimp-Mouse Orthologous Gene Trios

Andrew G. Clark, Stephen Glanowski, Rasmus Nielsen, Paul D. Thomas, Anish Kejariwal, Melissa A. Todd, David M. Tanenbaum, Daniel Civello, Fu Lu, Brian Murphy, Steve Ferriera, Gary Wang, Xianqgun Zheng, Thomas J. White, John J. Sninsky, Mark D. Adams, and Michele Cargill
Science 12 December 2003: 1960-1963.
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The Proteasome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Is Required for Resistance to Nitric Oxide

K. Heran Darwin, Sabine Ehrt, José-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, Nadine Weich, and Carl F. Nathan
Science 12 December 2003: 1963-1966.
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Genome of Geobacter sulfurreducens: Metal Reduction in Subsurface Environments

B. A. Methé, K. E. Nelson, J. A. Eisen, I. T. Paulsen, W. Nelson, J. F. Heidelberg, D. Wu, M. Wu, N. Ward, M. J. Beanan, R. J. Dodson, R. Madupu, L. M. Brinkac, S. C. Daugherty, R. T. DeBoy, A. S. Durkin, M. Gwinn, J. F. Kolonay, S. A. Sullivan, D. H. Haft, J. Selengut, T. M. Davidsen, N. Zafar, O. White, B. Tran, C. Romero, H. A Forberger, J. Weidman, H. Khouri, T. V. Feldblyum, T. R. Utterback, S. E. Van Aken, D. R. Lovley, and C. M. Fraser
Science 12 December 2003: 1967-1969.
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Crystal Structure of the RC-LH1 Core Complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris

Aleksander W. Roszak, Tina D. Howard, June Southall, Alastair T. Gardiner, Christopher J. Law, Neil W. Isaacs, and Richard J. Cogdell
Science 12 December 2003: 1969-1972.
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Mono- Versus Polyubiquitination: Differential Control of p53 Fate by Mdm2

Muyang Li, Christopher L. Brooks, Foon Wu-Baer, Delin Chen, Richard Baer, and Wei Gu
Science 12 December 2003: 1972-1975.
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Redistribution of Intracellular Oxygen in Hypoxia by Nitric Oxide: Effect on HIF1

Thilo Hagen, Cormac T. Taylor, Francis Lam, and Salvador Moncada
Science 12 December 2003: 1975-1978.
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A Muscleblind Knockout Model for Myotonic Dystrophy

Rahul N. Kanadia, Karen A. Johnstone, Ami Mankodi, Codrin Lungu, Charles A. Thornton, Douglas Esson, Adrian M. Timmers, William W. Hauswirth, and Maurice S. Swanson
Science 12 December 2003: 1978-1980.
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High-Probability Uniquantal Transmission at Excitatory Synapses in Barrel Cortex

R. Angus Silver, Joachim Lübke, Bert Sakmann, and Dirk Feldmeyer
Science 12 December 2003: 1981-1984.
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Anterior-Posterior Guidance of Commissural Axons by Wnt-Frizzled Signaling

Anna I. Lyuksyutova, Chin-Chun Lu, Nancy Milanesio, Leslie A. King, Nini Guo, Yanshu Wang, Jeremy Nathans, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Yimin Zou
Science 12 December 2003: 1984-1988.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Tumor Response to Radiotherapy Regulated by Endothelial Cell Apoptosis" (I)

Herman D. Suit and Henning Willers
Science 12 December 2003: 1894.
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 Comment on "Tumor Response to Radiotherapy Regulated by Endothelial Cell Apoptosis" (II)

Martin Brown, Robert Bristow, Peter Glazer, Richard Hill, William McBride, Gillies McKenna, and Ruth Muschel
Science 12 December 2003: 1894.
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 Response to Comments on "Tumor Response to Radiotherapy Regulated by Endothelial Cell Apoptosis"

Richard Kolesnick and Zvi Fuks
Science 12 December 2003: 1894.
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