This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Taxonomy: Impediment or Expedient?

Quentin D. Wheeler, Peter H. Raven, and Edward O. Wilson
Science 16 January 2004: 285.
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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 16 January 2004: 391.

News of the Week

INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Viral DNA Match Spurs China's Civet Roundup

Dennis Normile
Science 16 January 2004: 292.
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VISION FOR NASA:
President Bush Reaches for the Moon

Andrew Lawler
Science 16 January 2004: 293.
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CALIFORNIA:
Stem Cell Research Could Be Ballot Issue

Constance Holden
Science 16 January 2004: 293.
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MATH AND SCIENCE EDUCATION:
2005 Bush Budget Pulls NSF Schools Funding

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 January 2004: 295.
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OCEAN SCIENCE:
Panel to Prepare Plan for Underwater Network

David Malakoff
Science 16 January 2004: 296-297.
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INDIA:
Book Triggers Attack on Research Institute

Pallava Bagla
Science 16 January 2004: 296.
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EARTH SCIENCE:
Panel Urges Shakeup of NOAA Research

David Malakoff
Science 16 January 2004: 297.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Ebola Outbreaks May Have Had Independent Sources

Gretchen Vogel
Science 16 January 2004: 298-299.
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AUSTRALIA:
Hall Found Guilty of Lesser Misconduct

Leigh Dayton
Science 16 January 2004: 298.
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LARGE FACILITIES:
NSF Told to Open Process for Picking New Projects

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 16 January 2004: 299.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PHYSICS:
CESR Launches Last Campaign

Adrian Cho
Science 16 January 2004: 300-302.
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CAREERS:
Joining a Trend, Scientists Increasingly Say 'Call My Agent'

Trisha Gura
Science 16 January 2004: 303-305.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
An Early Start for Greenhouse Warming?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 January 2004: 306.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
An Ill-Mannered San Andreas?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 January 2004: 306-307.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Vicissitudes of Ancient Climate

Richard A. Kerr
Science 16 January 2004: 307.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 16 January 2004: 310.
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 Crisis for Biodiversity Collections

Scott E. Miller, W. John Kress, and K. Samper
Science 16 January 2004: 310.
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 Synchrotron-erenkov Radiation

Kirk T. McDonald;, Arzhang Ardavan, Houshang Ardavan, and John Singleton
Science 16 January 2004: 310-311.
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 Open Access to Science and Culture

Peter Gruss
Science 16 January 2004: 311-312.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MATHEMATICS:
Infinite Confusion

Rudy Rucker
Science 16 January 2004: 313-314.
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 Browsings

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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Nota Bene: Failure in Many Forms

Marc Lavine
Science 16 January 2004: 314.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH: Enhanced: A Sound Rationale Needed for Phase III HIV-1 Vaccine Trials

Dennis R. Burton, Ronald C. Desrosiers, Robert W. Doms, Mark B. Feinberg, Robert C. Gallo, Beatrice Hahn, James A. Hoxie, Eric Hunter, Bette Korber, Alan Landay, Michael M. Lederman, Judy Lieberman, Joseph M. McCune, John P. Moore, Neal Nathanson, Louis Picker, Douglas Richman, Charles Rinaldo, Mario Stevenson, David I. Watkins, Steven M. Wolinsky, and Jerome A. Zack
Science 16 January 2004: 316.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Action, Illusion, and Perception

Jacqueline Gottlieb and Pietro Mazzoni
Science 16 January 2004: 317-318.
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Is Language the Key to Human Intelligence?

David Premack
Science 16 January 2004: 318-320.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Surprising News from the PCC

Bernhard Dobberstein and Irmgard Sinning
Science 16 January 2004: 320-322.
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ASTRONOMY:
Unraveling Brown Dwarf Origins

Ray Jayawardhana
Science 16 January 2004: 322-323.
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ASTRONOMY:
Brown Dwarfs--Faint at Heart, Rich in Chemistry

Katharina Lodders
Science 16 January 2004: 323-324.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Breaking the Silence

Tom Owen-Hughes and Michael Bruno
Science 16 January 2004: 324-325.
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Review

Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens

Bryan T. Grenfell, Oliver G. Pybus, Julia R. Gog, James L. N. Wood, Janet M. Daly, Jenny A. Mumford, and Edward C. Holmes
Science 16 January 2004: 327-332.
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Brevia

 Gene Therapy Insertional Mutagenesis Insights

Utpal P. Davé, Nancy A. Jenkins, and Neal G. Copeland
Science 16 January 2004: 333.
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Research Articles

An Ion Balance for Ultra-High-Precision Atomic Mass Measurements

Simon Rainville, James K. Thompson, and David E. Pritchard
Science 16 January 2004: 334-338.
Published online 11 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092320] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Finite-Frequency Tomography Reveals a Variety of Plumes in the Mantle

Raffaella Montelli, Guust Nolet, F. A. Dahlen, Guy Masters, E. Robert Engdahl, and Shu-Huei Hung
Science 16 January 2004: 338-343.
Published online 4 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092485] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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ATP-Driven Exchange of Histone H2AZ Variant Catalyzed by SWR1 Chromatin Remodeling Complex

Gaku Mizuguchi, Xuetong Shen, Joe Landry, Wei-Hua Wu, Subhojit Sen, and Carl Wu
Science 16 January 2004: 343-348.
Published online 26 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090701] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Self-Assembly of Mesoscopic Metal-Polymer Amphiphiles

Sungho Park, Jung-Hyurk Lim, Sung-Wook Chung, and Chad A. Mirkin
Science 16 January 2004: 348-351.
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Inferences on Flow at the Base of Earth's Mantle Based on Seismic Anisotropy

Mark Panning and Barbara Romanowicz
Science 16 January 2004: 351-353.
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Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source Since the Early Holocene

L. C. Smith, G. M. MacDonald, A. A. Velichko, D. W. Beilman, O. K. Borisova, K. E. Frey, K. V. Kremenetski, and Y. Sheng
Science 16 January 2004: 353-356.
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Community Assembly Through Adaptive Radiation in Hawaiian Spiders

Rosemary Gillespie
Science 16 January 2004: 356-359.
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Defining the Epithelial Stem Cell Niche in Skin

Tudorita Tumbar, Geraldine Guasch, Valentina Greco, Cedric Blanpain, William E. Lowry, Michael Rendl, and Elaine Fuchs
Science 16 January 2004: 359-363.
Published online 11 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092436] (in Science Express Reports)
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Guar Seed ß-Mannan Synthase Is a Member of the Cellulose Synthase Super Gene Family

Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Roberto Barreiro, Brad Whitten, Kevin Stecca, Jan Hazebroek, Gursharn S. Randhawa, Maureen Dolan, Anthony J. Kinney, Dwight Tomes, Scott Nichols, and Paul Anderson
Science 16 January 2004: 363-366.
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Transformation of Olfactory Representations in the Drosophila Antennal Lobe

Rachel I. Wilson, Glenn C. Turner, and Gilles Laurent
Science 16 January 2004: 366-370.
Published online 18 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090782] (in Science Express Reports)
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A New Strategy for the Synthesis of Glycoproteins

Zhiwen Zhang, Jeff Gildersleeve, Yu-Ying Yang, Ran Xu, Joseph A. Loo, Sean Uryu, Chi-Huey Wong, and Peter G. Schultz
Science 16 January 2004: 371-373.
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Heterodimeric GTPase Core of the SRP Targeting Complex

Pamela J. Focia, Irina V. Shepotinovskaya, James A. Seidler, and Douglas M. Freymann
Science 16 January 2004: 373-377.
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Computational Constraints on Syntactic Processing in a Nonhuman Primate

W. Tecumseh Fitch and Marc D. Hauser
Science 16 January 2004: 377-380.
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Differential Representation of Perception and Action in the Frontal Cortex

Andrew B. Schwartz, Daniel W. Moran, and G. Anthony Reina
Science 16 January 2004: 380-383.
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RNA Leaching of Transcription Factors Disrupts Transcription in Myotonic Dystrophy

A. Ebralidze, Y. Wang, V. Petkova, K. Ebralidse, and R. P. Junghans
Science 16 January 2004: 383-387.
Published online 4 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1088679] (in Science Express Reports)
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Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife

Eric M. Leroy, Pierre Rouquet, Pierre Formenty, Sandrine Souquière, Annelisa Kilbourne, Jean-Marc Froment, Magdalena Bermejo, Sheilag Smit, William Karesh, Robert Swanepoel, Sherif R. Zaki, and Pierre E. Rollin
Science 16 January 2004: 387-390.
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