This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A Time of Opportunity

Donald Kennedy and Brooks Hanson
Science 30 January 2004: 589.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

Science 30 January 2004: 641.

 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Third Success Reveals a Geologic Delight

Richard A. Kerr
Science 30 January 2004: 602-603.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Senators Probe Alleged Financial Conflicts at NIH

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 30 January 2004: 603-605.
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CALIFORNIA:
Budget Deepens Cuts to UC System

Robert F. Service
Science 30 January 2004: 605.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY:
Ecologists Roiled by Misconduct Case

Gretchen Vogel, Fiona Proffitt, and Richard Stone
Science 30 January 2004: 606-609.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Director Expected to Step Down

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 30 January 2004: 606.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
WHO Ramps Up Bird Flu Vaccine Efforts

Dennis Normile
Science 30 January 2004: 609.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

REMAKING NASA:
How Much Space for Science?

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 610-612.
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REMAKING NASA:
Asking for the Moon

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 612.
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REMAKING NASA:
Astronomers Ponder a Really Long-Range Vision for NASA

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 613-614.
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REMAKING NASA:
NASA Hopes Bigger Is Better for Planned Mission to Jupiter

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 614-615.
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REMAKING NASA:
NASA's Plan for Station: From Lemon to Lemonade

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 615-617.
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REMAKING NASA:
Versatility Is the Object for New Crew Vehicle

Charles Seife
Science 30 January 2004: 617-618.
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REMAKING NASA:
From Bean Counter to Visionary: A Space Odyssey for NASA Chief

Andrew Lawler
Science 30 January 2004: 618-619.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 30 January 2004: 625.
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 Conservation Policy in Coffee Landscapes

Thomas V. Dietsch, Stacy M. Philpott, Robert A. Rice, Russell Greenberg, Peter Bichier;, Timothy G. O'Brien, and Margaret F. Kinnaird
Science 30 January 2004: 625-626.
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 Cellular Distribution of Nonionic Micelles

S. M. Moghimi, A. C. Hunter, J. C. Murray, A. Szewczyk;, Radoslav Savic, Laibin Luo, Adi Eisenberg, and Dusica Maysinger
Science 30 January 2004: 626-628.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Promises and Perils of Technology's Future

Michael A. Goldman
Science 30 January 2004: 629-630.
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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION:
Projecting Information

Michael Stumpf
Science 30 January 2004: 630.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

PUBLIC HEALTH:
Ethics and the Conduct of Public Health Surveillance

Amy L. Fairchild and Ronald Bayer
Science 30 January 2004: 631-632.
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
Enhanced:
Programming the X Chromosome

Petra Hajkova and M. Azim Surani
Science 30 January 2004: 633-634.
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CHEMISTRY:
Throwing Tetrahedral Dice

Dominik Marx
Science 30 January 2004: 634-636.
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ASTRONOMY:
Nuclear Fossils in Stardust

Larry R. Nittler
Science 30 January 2004: 636-637.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
A Pattern of Precision

Paul W. Sternberg
Science 30 January 2004: 637-638.
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Brevia

 The Significance of Few Versus Many in the Tree of Life

Robert W. Scotland and Michael J. Sanderson
Science 30 January 2004: 643.
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Research Article

Epigenetic Dynamics of Imprinted X Inactivation During Early Mouse Development

Ikuhiro Okamoto, Arie P. Otte, C. David Allis, Danny Reinberg, and Edith Heard
Science 30 January 2004: 644-649.
Published online 11 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092727] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Extinct Technetium in Silicon Carbide Stardust Grains: Implications for Stellar Nucleosynthesis

Michael R. Savina, Andrew M. Davis, C. Emil Tripa, Michael J. Pellin, Roberto Gallino, Roy S. Lewis, and Sachiko Amari
Science 30 January 2004: 649-652.
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Elastic Torque and the Levitation of Metal Wires by a Nematic Liquid Crystal

C. Lapointe, A. Hultgren, D. M. Silevitch, E. J. Felton, D. H. Reich, and R. L. Leheny
Science 30 January 2004: 652-655.
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Local Gate Control of a Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dot

N. Mason, M. J. Biercuk, and C. M. Marcus
Science 30 January 2004: 655-658.
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An ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study of the Aqueous Liquid-Vapor Interface

I-Feng W. Kuo and Christopher J. Mundy
Science 30 January 2004: 658-660.
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Multiferroic BaTiO₃-CoFe₂O₄ Nanostructures

H. Zheng, J. Wang, S. E. Lofland, Z. Ma, L. Mohaddes-Ardabili, T. Zhao, L. Salamanca-Riba, S. R. Shinde, S. B. Ogale, F. Bai, D. Viehland, Y. Jia, D. G. Schlom, M. Wuttig, A. Roytburd, and R. Ramesh
Science 30 January 2004: 661-663.
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Crosstalk Between the EGFR and LIN-12/Notch Pathways in C. elegans Vulval Development

Andrew S. Yoo, Carlos Bais, and Iva Greenwald
Science 30 January 2004: 663-666.
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Reactivation of the Paternal X Chromosome in Early Mouse Embryos

Winifred Mak, Tatyana B. Nesterova, Mariana de Napoles, Ruth Appanah, Shinya Yamanaka, Arie P. Otte, and Neil Brockdorff
Science 30 January 2004: 666-669.
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Heterochromatic Silencing and HP1 Localization in Drosophila Are Dependent on the RNAi Machinery

Manika Pal-Bhadra, Boris A. Leibovitch, Sumit G. Gandhi, Madhusudana Rao, Utpal Bhadra, James A. Birchler, and Sarah C. R. Elgin
Science 30 January 2004: 669-672.
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RNAi-Mediated Targeting of Heterochromatin by the RITS Complex

André Verdel, Songtao Jia, Scott Gerber, Tomoyasu Sugiyama, Steven Gygi, Shiv I. S. Grewal, and Danesh Moazed
Science 30 January 2004: 672-676.
Published online 2 January 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1093686] (in Science Express Reports)
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Kinesin Walks Hand-Over-Hand

Ahmet Yildiz, Michio Tomishige, Ronald D. Vale, and Paul R. Selvin
Science 30 January 2004: 676-678.
Published online 18 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1093753] (in Science Express Reports)
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Lacticin 481: In Vitro Reconstitution of Lantibiotic Synthetase Activity

Lili Xie, Leah M. Miller, Champak Chatterjee, Olga Averin, Neil L. Kelleher, and Wilfred A. van der Donk
Science 30 January 2004: 679-681.
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EGF-Like Growth Factors As Mediators of LH Action in the Ovulatory Follicle

Jy-Young Park, You-Qiang Su, Miyako Ariga, Evelyn Law, S.-L. Catherine Jin, and Marco Conti
Science 30 January 2004: 682-684.
Published online 15 January 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092463] (in Science Express Reports)
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PEST Domain-Enriched Tyrosine Phosphatase (PEP) Regulation of Effector/Memory T Cells

Kiminori Hasegawa, Flavius Martin, Guangming Huang, Dan Tumas, Lauri Diehl, and Andrew C. Chan
Science 30 January 2004: 685-689.
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A Predator Unmasked: Life Cycle of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus from a Genomic Perspective

Snjezana Rendulic, Pratik Jagtap, Andrea Rosinus, Mark Eppinger, Claudia Baar, Christa Lanz, Heike Keller, Carey Lambert, Katy J. Evans, Alexander Goesmann, Folker Meyer, R. Elizabeth Sockett, and Stephan C. Schuster
Science 30 January 2004: 689-692.
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Reactions at Interfaces As a Source of Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Particles" (I)

William C. Keene and Alexander A. P. Pszenny
Science 30 January 2004: 628.
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 Comment on "Reactions at Interfaces As a Source of Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Particles" (II)

Rolf Sander, Paul J. Crutzen, and Roland von Glasow
Science 30 January 2004: 628.
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 Response to Comments on "Reactions at Interfaces As a Source of Sulfate Formation in Sea-Salt Particles"

Alexander Laskin, Daniel J. Gaspar, Weihong Wang, Sherri W. Hunt, James P. Cowin, Steven D. Colson, and Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts
Science 30 January 2004: 628.
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