Breakthrough of the Year

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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Illuminating the Dark Universe

Charles Seife
Science 19 December 2003: 2038-2039.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
The Runners-Up

The News and Editorial Staffs
Science 19 December 2003: 2039-2045.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Areas to Watch in 2004

Science 19 December 2003: 2040.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Scorecard 2002

Science 19 December 2003: 2041.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Breakdown of the Year: Space Shuttle Columbia

Andrew Lawler
Science 19 December 2003: 2042.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
SARS: A Pandemic Prevented

Martin Enserink
Science 19 December 2003: 2045.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 19 December 2003: 2029.
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Editorial:
Breakthrough of the Year

Donald Kennedy
Science 19 December 2003: 2033.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 19 December 2003: 2034.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 19 December 2003: 2037.
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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 19 December 2003: 2080-2081.

 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 19 December 2003: 2145.

News of the Week

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:
Zerhouni Pledges Review of NIH Consulting in Wake of Allegations

Eliot Marshall
Science 19 December 2003: 2046.
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ASTRONOMY:
Spitzer Space Telescope (né SIRTF) Sparkles in Debut

Robert Irion
Science 19 December 2003: 2047.
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ECOLOGY:
Too Much Crunching on Rainforest Nuts?

Erik Stokstad
Science 19 December 2003: 2049.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
In Sex Reversal, Protein Deterred by Nuclear Barrier

Aparna Sreenivasan
Science 19 December 2003: 2050.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Cow Ambles to the Sequencing House

Jennifer Couzin
Science 19 December 2003: 2050.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Gamma Ray Satellite Sees Out First Year With a Bang

Govert Schilling
Science 19 December 2003: 2051-2053.
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ECOLOGY:
Bye, Bye Biosphere 2

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 19 December 2003: 2053.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

Science 19 December 2003: 2064.
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News Focus

SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
The Trials of Thomas Butler

Martin Enserink and David Malakoff
Science 19 December 2003: 2054-2063.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
African Study Raises Ethical Issues

Martin Enserink
Science 19 December 2003: 2056.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
Butler's Samples Spelled Trouble for U.S. Agencies

David Malakoff
Science 19 December 2003: 2058.
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SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY:
The Final Score: 47 to 22

Martin Enserink and David Malakoff
Science 19 December 2003: 2062.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 19 December 2003: 2067-2070.
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 Revisiting Amazonia Circa 1492

Betty J. Meggers;, Eduardo S. Brondizio;, Michael J. Heckenberger, Carlos Fausto, and Bruna Franchetto
Science 19 December 2003: 2067-2070.
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 A Gross Indignity to Humans

Aparna Kolhekar
Science 19 December 2003: 2070.
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 An Unseemly Display of Mortality?

József Kovács
Science 19 December 2003: 2070.
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Books et al.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
The Third Autobiography

Robert Olby
Science 19 December 2003: 2071-2072.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Seeking Simultaneity

M. Norton Wise
Science 19 December 2003: 2072.
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 Books Received

Science 19 December 2003: 2072.

Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT:
Disclosure in Regulatory Science

David Michaels and Wendy Wagner
Science 19 December 2003: 2073.
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
Climb Every Mountain?

Santiago F. Elena and Rafael Sanjuán
Science 19 December 2003: 2074-2075.
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GEOLOGY:
How to Concentrate Copper

Jean S. Cline
Science 19 December 2003: 2075-2076.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Randomness in Quantum Computation

Juan Pablo Paz
Science 19 December 2003: 2076-2077.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Tubulogenesis CLICs into Place

Sarah M. Paul and Greg J. Beitel
Science 19 December 2003: 2077-2078.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Enhanced: ORs Rule the Roost in the Olfactory System

Joseph W. Lewcock and Randall R. Reed
Science 19 December 2003: 2078-2079.
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Review

Long-Term Ecosystem Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Charles H. Peterson, Stanley D. Rice, Jeffrey W. Short, Daniel Esler, James L. Bodkin, Brenda E. Ballachey, and David B. Irons
Science 19 December 2003: 2082-2086.
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Brevia

 Generation of Viable Cholesterol-Free Mice

A. Wechsler, A. Brafman, M. Shafir, M. Heverin, H. Gottlieb, G. Damari, S. Gozlan-Kelner, I. Spivak, O. Moshkin, E. Fridman, Y. Becker, R. Skaliter, P. Einat, A. Faerman, I. Björkhem, and E. Feinstein
Science 19 December 2003: 2087.
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Research Article

Negative Feedback Regulation Ensures the One Receptor-One Olfactory Neuron Rule in Mouse

Shou Serizawa, Kazunari Miyamichi, Hiroko Nakatani, Misao Suzuki, Michiko Saito, Yoshihiro Yoshihara, and Hitoshi Sakano
Science 19 December 2003: 2088-2094.
Published online 30 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1089122] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Biomolecular Interactions at Phospholipid-Decorated Surfaces of Liquid Crystals

Jeffrey M. Brake, Maren K. Daschner, Yan-Yeung Luk, and Nicholas L. Abbott
Science 19 December 2003: 2094-2097.
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Pseudo-Random Unitary Operators for Quantum Information Processing

Joseph Emerson, Yaakov S. Weinstein, Marcos Saraceno, Seth Lloyd, and David G. Cory
Science 19 December 2003: 2098-2100.
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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules

S. Jochim, M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, G. Hendl, S. Riedl, C. Chin, J. Hecker Denschlag, and R. Grimm
Science 19 December 2003: 2101-2103.
Published online 13 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1093280] (in Science Express Reports)
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Observation of Two Distinct Superconducting Phases in CeCu₂Si₂

H. Q. Yuan, F. M. Grosche, M. Deppe, C. Geibel, G. Sparn, and F. Steglich
Science 19 December 2003: 2104-2107.
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Adaptation Limits Diversification of Experimental Bacterial Populations

Angus Buckling, Matthew A. Wills, and Nick Colegrave
Science 19 December 2003: 2107-2109.
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Melt Inclusions in Veins: Linking Magmas and Porphyry Cu Deposits

Anthony C. Harris, Vadim S. Kamenetsky, Noel C. White, Esmé van Achterbergh, and Chris G. Ryan
Science 19 December 2003: 2109-2111.
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Demographic Threats to the Sustainability of Brazil Nut Exploitation

Carlos A. Peres, Claudia Baider, Pieter A. Zuidema, Lúcia H. O. Wadt, Karen A. Kainer, Daisy A. P. Gomes-Silva, Rafael P. Salomão, Luciana L. Simões, Eduardo R. N. Franciosi, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Rogério Gribel, Glenn H. Shepard, Jr., Milton Kanashiro, Peter Coventry, Douglas W. Yu, Andrew R. Watkinson, and Robert P. Freckleton
Science 19 December 2003: 2112-2114.
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Maize Genome Sequencing by Methylation Filtration

Lance E. Palmer, Pablo D. Rabinowicz, Andrew L. O'Shaughnessy, Vivekanand S. Balija, Lidia U. Nascimento, Sujit Dike, Melissa de la Bastide, Robert A. Martienssen, and W. Richard McCombie
Science 19 December 2003: 2115-2117.
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Enrichment of Gene-Coding Sequences in Maize by Genome Filtration

C. A. Whitelaw, W. B. Barbazuk, G. Pertea, A. P. Chan, F. Cheung, Y. Lee, L. Zheng, S. van Heeringen, S. Karamycheva, J. L. Bennetzen, P. SanMiguel, N. Lakey, J. Bedell, Y. Yuan, M. A. Budiman, A. Resnick, S. Van Aken, T. Utterback, S. Riedmuller, M. Williams, T. Feldblyum, K. Schubert, R. Beachy, C. M. Fraser, and J. Quackenbush
Science 19 December 2003: 2118-2120.
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Separase Regulates INCENP-Aurora B Anaphase Spindle Function Through Cdc14

Gislene Pereira and Elmar Schiebel
Science 19 December 2003: 2120-2124.
Published online 6 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1091936] (in Science Express Reports)
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Yeast Life-Span Extension by Calorie Restriction Is Independent of NAD Fluctuation

Rozalyn M. Anderson, Magda Latorre-Esteves, Ana Rute Neves, Siva Lavu, Oliver Medvedik, Christopher Taylor, Konrad T. Howitz, Helena Santos, and David A. Sinclair
Science 19 December 2003: 2124-2126.
Published online 6 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1088697] (in Science Express Reports)
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Dual Activation of the Drosophila Toll Pathway by Two Pattern Recognition Receptors

Vanessa Gobert, Marie Gottar, Alexey A. Matskevich, Sophie Rutschmann, Julien Royet, Marcia Belvin, Jules A. Hoffmann, and Dominique Ferrandon
Science 19 December 2003: 2126-2130.
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Kinesin Moves by an Asymmetric Hand-Over-Hand Mechanism

Charles L. Asbury, Adrian N. Fehr, and Steven M. Block
Science 19 December 2003: 2130-2134.
Published online 4 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092985] (in Science Express Reports)
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A C. elegans CLIC-like Protein Required for Intracellular Tube Formation and Maintenance

Katherine L. Berry, Hannes E. Bülow, David H. Hall, and Oliver Hobert
Science 19 December 2003: 2134-2137.
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Transcription-Coupled Events Associating with Immunoglobulin Switch Region Chromatin

Yukiko Nambu, Manabu Sugai, Hiroyuki Gonda, Chung-Gi Lee, Tomoya Katakai, Yasutoshi Agata, Yoshifumi Yokota, and Akira Shimizu
Science 19 December 2003: 2137-2140.
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Genome-Wide Survey of Human Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing with Exon Junction Microarrays

Jason M. Johnson, John Castle, Philip Garrett-Engele, Zhengyan Kan, Patrick M. Loerch, Christopher D. Armour, Ralph Santos, Eric E. Schadt, Roland Stoughton, and Daniel D. Shoemaker
Science 19 December 2003: 2141-2144.
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