This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Investing in People

Philippe Busquin
Science 9 January 2004: 145.
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

Science 9 January 2004: 1-16.

 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A Tale of Two Landings, One Orbiting

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 January 2004: 150-151.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
A Surprisingly Ancient Cometary Visage

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 January 2004: 151.
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ASTROPHYSICS: Double Pulsar Gives Astrophysicists Many-Faceted Thrills

Robert Irion
Science 9 January 2004: 153.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Salmon Survey Stokes Debate About Farmed Fish

Erik Stokstad
Science 9 January 2004: 154-155.
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HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Once Again, Muons Defy Reigning Theory

Charles Seife
Science 9 January 2004: 154.
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RUSSIA:
Political Tussle Looms Over Private R&D Center

Vladimir Pokrovsky and Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 9 January 2004: 155.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
First U.S. Case of Mad Cow Sharpens Debate Over Testing

Dennis Normile
Science 9 January 2004: 156-157.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY:
Microbes Made to Order

Dan Ferber
Science 9 January 2004: 158-161.
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SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY:
Time for a Synthetic Biology Asilomar?

Dan Ferber
Science 9 January 2004: 159.
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NUCLEAR WASTE:
Deep Repositories: Out of Sight, Out of Terrorists' Reach

Richard Stone
Science 9 January 2004: 161-164.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Wanted: One Good Cosmic Blast to Shake the Neighborhood

Charles Seife
Science 9 January 2004: 164-165.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 9 January 2004: 168.
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 How Unique Is the Rice Transcriptome?

Lucjan S. Wyrwicz, Marcin von Grotthuss, Jakub Pas, Leszek Rychlewski;, and Shoshi Kikuchi
Science 9 January 2004: 168.
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 Another Grand Challenge: Mental Health

Paula P. Schnurr, Danny G. Kaloupek, Stuart Turner, Sandra Bloom, and Stacey Kaltman
Science 9 January 2004: 168-169.
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 The Grand Challenge of Birth Control

Bruce Hannon
Science 9 January 2004: 169.
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 The Effects of Manganese in Air

Kenny S. Crump, Harvey J. Clewell;, Donna Mergler, and Mary Baldwin
Science 9 January 2004: 169-173.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION:
Learning from Lepidoptera

Nina Wedell
Science 9 January 2004: 174.
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INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY:
Constraining Webs

James E. Carrel
Science 9 January 2004: 175.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT:
Climate Change Science: Adapt, Mitigate, or Ignore?

David A. King
Science 9 January 2004: 176-177.
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Perspectives

PALEOCLIMATE:
A Better Radiocarbon Clock

Edouard Bard, Frauke Rostek, and Guillemette Ménot-Combes
Science 9 January 2004: 178-179.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Calcium and CREST for Healthy Dendrites

Gregory S. X. E. Jefferis, Takaki Komiyama, and Liqun Luo
Science 9 January 2004: 179-181.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Weak Faults--Rotten Cores

Robert E. Holdsworth
Science 9 January 2004: 181-182.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Ring Around the Retroelement

Philip S. Perlman and Jef D. Boeke
Science 9 January 2004: 182-184.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
New Year's Resolution--Resolving Resolvases

Lorraine S. Symington and William K. Holloman
Science 9 January 2004: 184-185.
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Review

How Enzymes Work: Analysis by Modern Rate Theory and Computer Simulations

Mireia Garcia-Viloca, Jiali Gao, Martin Karplus, and Donald G. Truhlar
Science 9 January 2004: 186-195.
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Brevia

 Borate Minerals Stabilize Ribose

A. Ricardo, M. A. Carrigan, A. N. Olcott, and S. A. Benner
Science 9 January 2004: 196.
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Research Articles

Dendrite Development Regulated by CREST, a Calcium-Regulated Transcriptional Activator

Hiroyuki Aizawa, Shu-Ching Hu, Kathryn Bobb, Karthik Balakrishnan, Gulayse Ince, Inga Gurevich, Mitra Cowan, and Anirvan Ghosh
Science 9 January 2004: 197-202.
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¹⁴C Activity and Global Carbon Cycle Changes over the Past 50,000 Years

K. Hughen, S. Lehman, J. Southon, J. Overpeck, O. Marchal, C. Herring, and J. Turnbull
Science 9 January 2004: 202-207.
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Reports

Abiotic Forcing of Plankton Evolution in the Cenozoic

Daniela N. Schmidt, Hans R. Thierstein, Jörg Bollmann, and Ralf Schiebel
Science 9 January 2004: 207-210.
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Widespread Intense Turbulent Mixing in the Southern Ocean

Alberto C. Naveira Garabato, Kurt L. Polzin, Brian A. King, Karen J. Heywood, and Martin Visbeck
Science 9 January 2004: 210-213.
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Virus-Based Toolkit for the Directed Synthesis of Magnetic and Semiconducting Nanowires

Chuanbin Mao, Daniel J. Solis, Brian D. Reiss, Stephen T. Kottmann, Rozamond Y. Sweeney, Andrew Hayhurst, George Georgiou, Brent Iverson, and Angela M. Belcher
Science 9 January 2004: 213-217.
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Boron Nitride Nanomesh

Martina Corso, Willi Auwärter, Matthias Muntwiler, Anna Tamai, Thomas Greber, and Jürg Osterwalder
Science 9 January 2004: 217-220.
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Periodic Pulsing of Characteristic Microearthquakes on the San Andreas Fault

Robert M. Nadeau and Thomas V. McEvilly
Science 9 January 2004: 220-222.
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Effects of Purifying and Adaptive Selection on Regional Variation in Human mtDNA

Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini, Dan Mishmar, Martin Brandon, Vincent Procaccio, and Douglas C. Wallace
Science 9 January 2004: 223-226.
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Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon

Ronald A. Hites, Jeffery A. Foran, David O. Carpenter, M. Coreen Hamilton, Barbara A. Knuth, and Steven J. Schwager
Science 9 January 2004: 226-229.
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Regulation of Bone Mass in Mice by the Lipoxygenase Gene Alox15

Robert F. Klein, John Allard, Zafrira Avnur, Tania Nikolcheva, David Rotstein, Amy S. Carlos, Marie Shea, Ruth V. Waters, John K. Belknap, Gary Peltz, and Eric S. Orwoll
Science 9 January 2004: 229-232.
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Neural Systems Underlying the Suppression of Unwanted Memories

Michael C. Anderson, Kevin N. Ochsner, Brice Kuhl, Jeffrey Cooper, Elaine Robertson, Susan W. Gabrieli, Gary H. Glover, and John D. E. Gabrieli
Science 9 January 2004: 232-235.
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Reflectins: The Unusual Proteins of Squid Reflective Tissues

Wendy J. Crookes, Lin-Lin Ding, Qing Ling Huang, Jennifer R. Kimbell, Joseph Horwitz, and Margaret J. McFall-Ngai
Science 9 January 2004: 235-238.
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Transgenic RNAi Reveals Essential Function for CTCF in H19 Gene Imprinting

Andrew M. Fedoriw, Paula Stein, Petr Svoboda, Richard M. Schultz, and Marisa S. Bartolomei
Science 9 January 2004: 238-240.
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RNA Branching and Debranching in the Yeast Retrovirus-like Element Ty1

Zhi Cheng and Thomas M. Menees
Science 9 January 2004: 240-243.
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RAD51C Is Required for Holliday Junction Processing in Mammalian Cells

Yilun Liu, Jean-Yves Masson, Rajvee Shah, Paul O'Regan, and Stephen C. West
Science 9 January 2004: 243-246.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Molecular Phylogenies Link Rates of Evolution and Speciation" (I)

Christopher C. Witt and Robb T. Brumfield
Science 9 January 2004: 173.
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 Comment on "Molecular Phylogenies Link Rates of Evolution and Speciation" (II)

Andrew V. Z. Brower
Science 9 January 2004: 173.
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 Response to Comments on "Molecular Phylogenies Link Rates of Evolution and Speciation"

Andrea J. Webster, Robert Payne, and Mark Pagel
Science 9 January 2004: 173.
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