This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Global Warming and Nuclear Power

Richard A. Meserve
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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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News of the Week

SPACE EXPLORATION:
Scientists Add Up Gains, Losses in Bush's New Vision for NASA

Andrew Lawler
Science 23 January 2004: 444-445.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Stopping Asia's Avian Flu: A Worrisome Third Outbreak

Dennis Normile
Science 23 January 2004: 447.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS:
Europe Takes Tentative Steps Toward Approval of Commercial GM Crops

Gretchen Vogel
Science 23 January 2004: 448-449.
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DOE NATIONAL LABS:
University of California Inches Closer to Preparing Bids

David Malakoff
Science 23 January 2004: 448.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS:
Experts Recommend a Cautious Approach

Erik Stokstad
Science 23 January 2004: 449.
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BIOMEDICAL POLITICS:
Democrats Blast a Sunny-Side Look at U.S. Health Disparities

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 23 January 2004: 451.
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BIOMEDICAL FUNDING:
NIH Keeps Grants Staff But Braces for Change

Jocelyn Kaiser
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NONPROLIFERATION:
North Korea's Nuclear Shell Game

Richard Stone
Science 23 January 2004: 452-454.
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GENOMICS:
New Sequence Boosts Rats' Research Appeal

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 23 January 2004: 455-458.
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ARTHUR CARTY PROFILE:
Canada's New Science Adviser Hopes for Good Chemistry

Wayne Kondro
Science 23 January 2004: 458-459.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Early Galaxies Baffle Observers, But Theorists Shrug

Robert Irion
Science 23 January 2004: 460.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Star Formation--An Extreme Sport?

Robert Irion
Science 23 January 2004: 460-461.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
A Hot Jupiter Sears Its Parent Star

Robert Irion
Science 23 January 2004: 461.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Snapshots From the Meeting

Robert Irion
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Retraction of an Interpretation

Linqi Zhang, Peter Lopez, Tian He, Wenjie Yu, and David D. Ho
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 Brightening Depression

Anna Wirz-Justice, Michael Terman, Dan A. Oren, Frederick K. Goodwin, Daniel F. Kripke, Peter C. Whybrow, Katherine L. Wisner, Joseph C. Wu, Raymond W. Lam, Mathias Berger, Konstantin V. Danilenko, Siegfried Kasper, Enrico Smeraldi, Kiyohisa Takahashi, Chris Thompson, and Rutger H. van den Hoofdakker
Science 23 January 2004: 467-469.
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 The Difficulties of Testing for SARS

Albert Cheung Hoi Yu
Science 23 January 2004: 469-471.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

EVOLUTION:
The Importance of a Constructivist View

John Vandermeer
Science 23 January 2004: 472-474.
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 Browsings

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PARASITOLOGY:
Nota Bene: Horrible Achievement

Caroline Ash
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Policy Forum

EDUCATION:
Bonus Pay for Research Faculty

William T. Mallon and David Korn
Science 23 January 2004: 476-477.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
BAR Domains Go on a Bender

Marcus C. S. Lee and Randy Schekman
Science 23 January 2004: 479-480.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
Mimicking Posttranslational Modifications of Proteins

Benjamin G. Davis
Science 23 January 2004: 480-482.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Making Nanoscale Materials with Supercritical Fluids

Keith P. Johnston and Parag S. Shah
Science 23 January 2004: 482-483.
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PLANT SCIENCES:
Imprinting--a Green Variation

Frederic Berger
Science 23 January 2004: 483-485.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
The Robin Hood of Antigen Presentation

Gennaro De Libero
Science 23 January 2004: 485-487.
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Review

Ferroelectricity at the Nanoscale: Local Polarization in Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures

C. H. Ahn, K. M. Rabe, and J.-M. Triscone
Science 23 January 2004: 488-491.
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Brevia

 Stable SNPs in Malaria Antigen Genes in Isolated Populations

K. Tanabe, N. Sakihama, and A. Kaneko
Science 23 January 2004: 493.
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Research Article

BAR Domains as Sensors of Membrane Curvature: The Amphiphysin BAR Structure

Brian J. Peter, Helen M. Kent, Ian G. Mills, Yvonne Vallis, P. Jonathan G. Butler, Philip R. Evans, and Harvey T. McMahon
Science 23 January 2004: 495-499.
Published online 26 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092586] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Detection of a Red Supergiant Progenitor Star of a Type II-Plateau Supernova

Stephen J. Smartt, Justyn R. Maund, Margaret A. Hendry, Christopher A. Tout, Gerard F. Gilmore, Seppo Mattila, and Chris R. Benn
Science 23 January 2004: 499-503.
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Phase Diagram of Degenerate Exciton Systems

C. W. Lai, J. Zoch, A. C. Gossard, and D. S. Chemla
Science 23 January 2004: 503-506.
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Mesoporous Silicates Prepared Using Preorganized Templates in Supercritical Fluids

Rajaram A. Pai, Raashina Humayun, Michelle T. Schulberg, Archita Sengupta, Jia-Ning Sun, and James J. Watkins
Science 23 January 2004: 507-510.
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Electron Transfer-Induced Dynamics of Oxygen Molecules on the TiO₂(110) Surface

Erik Wahlström, Ebbe Kruse Vestergaard, Renald Schaub, Anders Rønnau, Majken Vestergaard, Erik Lægsgaard, Ivan Stensgaard, and Flemming Besenbacher
Science 23 January 2004: 511-513.
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Viscosity of Fluids in Subduction Zones

Andreas Audétat and Hans Keppler
Science 23 January 2004: 513-516.
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Evidence That Nitric Acid Increases Relative Humidity in Low-Temperature Cirrus Clouds

R. S. Gao, P. J. Popp, D. W. Fahey, T. P. Marcy, R. L. Herman, E. M. Weinstock, D. G. Baumgardner, T. J. Garrett, K. H. Rosenlof, T. L. Thompson, P. T. Bui, B. A. Ridley, S. C. Wofsy, O. B. Toon, M. A. Tolbert, B. Kärcher, Th. Peter, P. K. Hudson, A. J. Weinheimer, and A. J. Heymsfield
Science 23 January 2004: 516-520.
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One-Way Control of FWA Imprinting in Arabidopsis Endosperm by DNA Methylation

Tetsu Kinoshita, Asuka Miura, Yeonhee Choi, Yuki Kinoshita, Xiaofeng Cao, Steven E. Jacobsen, Robert L. Fischer, and Tetsuji Kakutani
Science 23 January 2004: 521-523.
Published online 20 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1089835] (in Science Express Reports)
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Editing of CD1d-Bound Lipid Antigens by Endosomal Lipid Transfer Proteins

Dapeng Zhou, Carlos Cantu, III, Yuval Sagiv, Nicolas Schrantz, Ashok B. Kulkarni, Xiaoyang Qi, Don J. Mahuran, Carlos R. Morales, Gregory A. Grabowski, Kamel Benlagha, Paul Savage, Albert Bendelac, and Luc Teyton
Science 23 January 2004: 523-527.
Published online 18 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092009] (in Science Express Reports)
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T Cell Activation by Lipopeptide Antigens

D. Branch Moody, David C. Young, Tan-Yun Cheng, Jean-Pierre Rosat, Carme Roura-mir, Peter B. O'Connor, Dirk M. Zajonc, Andrew Walz, Marvin J. Miller, Steven B. Levery, Ian A. Wilson, Catherine E. Costello, and Michael B. Brenner
Science 23 January 2004: 527-531.
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Role of LBPA and Alix in Multivesicular Liposome Formation and Endosome Organization

Hirotami Matsuo, Julien Chevallier, Nathalie Mayran, Isabelle Le Blanc, Charles Ferguson, Julien Fauré, Nathalie Sartori Blanc, Stefan Matile, Jacques Dubochet, Rémy Sadoul, Robert G. Parton, Francis Vilbois, and Jean Gruenberg
Science 23 January 2004: 531-534.
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Snapshots of DsbA in Action: Detection of Proteins in the Process of Oxidative Folding

Hiroshi Kadokura, Hongping Tian, Thomas Zander, James C. A. Bardwell, and Jon Beckwith
Science 23 January 2004: 534-537.
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Extensive Gene Traffic on the Mammalian X Chromosome

J. J. Emerson, Henrik Kaessmann, Esther Betrán, and Manyuan Long
Science 23 January 2004: 537-540.
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A Map of the Interactome Network of the Metazoan C. elegans

Siming Li, Christopher M. Armstrong, Nicolas Bertin, Hui Ge, Stuart Milstein, Mike Boxem, Pierre-Olivier Vidalain, Jing-Dong J. Han, Alban Chesneau, Tong Hao, Debra S. Goldberg, Ning Li, Monica Martinez, Jean-François Rual, Philippe Lamesch, Lai Xu, Muneesh Tewari, Sharyl L. Wong, Lan V. Zhang, Gabriel F. Berriz, Laurent Jacotot, Philippe Vaglio, Jérôme Reboul, Tomoko Hirozane-Kishikawa, Qianru Li, Harrison W. Gabel, Ahmed Elewa, Bridget Baumgartner, Debra J. Rose, Haiyuan Yu, Stephanie Bosak, Reynaldo Sequerra, Andrew Fraser, Susan E. Mango, William M. Saxton, Susan Strome, Sander van den Heuvel, Fabio Piano, Jean Vandenhaute, Claude Sardet, Mark Gerstein, Lynn Doucette-Stamm, Kristin C. Gunsalus, J. Wade Harper, Michael E. Cusick, Frederick P. Roth, David E. Hill, and Marc Vidal
Science 23 January 2004: 540-543.
Published online 2 January 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1091403] (in Science Express Reports)
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Multimodal Signals: Enhancement and Constraint of Song Motor Patterns by Visual Display

Brenton G. Cooper and Franz Goller
Science 23 January 2004: 544-546.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Impact Ejecta Layer from the Mid-Devonian: Possible Connection to Global Mass Extinctions"

Grzegorz Racki and Christian Koeberl
Science 23 January 2004: 471.
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 Response to Comment on "Impact Ejecta Layer from the Mid-Devonian: Possible Connection to Global Mass Extinctions"

Brooks B. Ellwood, Stephen L. Benoist, Ahmed El Hassani, Christopher Wheeler, and Rex E. Crick
Science 23 January 2004: 471.
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