This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Stem Cells, Redux

Donald Kennedy
Science 12 March 2004: 1581.
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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

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News of the Week

SPACE PHYSICS:
Will NASA Annihilate Station Antimatter Experiment?

Andrew Lawler
Science 12 March 2004: 1590-1591.
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TRANSGENIC CROPS:
Britain Opts for Brave New GM World

Gretchen Vogel
Science 12 March 2004: 1590.
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POLAR RESEARCH:
Plucky Scientists Plucked From Jaws of Death

Theres Redeby
Science 12 March 2004: 1591.
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REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY:
Textbook Rewrite? Adult Mammals May Produce Eggs After All

Jennifer Couzin
Science 12 March 2004: 1593.
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NONPROLIFERATION:
New Initiatives Reach Out to Iraq's Scientific Elite

Richard Stone
Science 12 March 2004: 1594.
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BIODEFENSE:
U.S. Agencies Unveil Plan for Biosecurity Peer Review

Jennifer Couzin
Science 12 March 2004: 1595.
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ASTRONOMY:
Hubble Gazes Into the Universe's Uncharted Depths

Robert Irion
Science 12 March 2004: 1596.
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OPTICS:
Lens Once Deemed Impossible Now Rules the Waves

Kim Krieger
Science 12 March 2004: 1597.
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ASTRONOMY:
Galactic Stripling Gives a Glimpse of the Universe's Raw Youth

Charles Seife
Science 12 March 2004: 1597.
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SCIENCE PUBLISHING:
Japan Ponders Starting a Global Journal

Dennis Normile
Science 12 March 2004: 1599.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CLIMATE CHANGE:
All Downhill From Here?

Kevin Krajick
Science 12 March 2004: 1600-1602.
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SPACE EXPLORATION:
Moon's 'Abundant Resources' Largely an Unknown Quantity

Charles Seife
Science 12 March 2004: 1603.
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EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
A Global Fire Brigade Responds to Disease Outbreaks

Martin Enserink
Science 12 March 2004: 1605.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Remembrance of Winter Past

Jean Marx
Science 12 March 2004: 1607.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 12 March 2004: 1610.
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 Outing the Conflicted: Et Tu, NIH?

Josephine Johnston
Science 12 March 2004: 1610.
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 Dietary Restriction in Drosophila

Casandra L. Rauser, Laurence D. Mueller, Michael R. Rose;, William Mair, Patrick Goymer, Scott D. Pletcher, and Linda Partridge
Science 12 March 2004: 1610-1612.
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 Support for a Colleague

R. V. Alatalo, S. Aragón, J. M. Avilés, A. Barbosa, C. Bessa Gomes, N. Cadée, P. Christe, J. J. Cuervo, M. Díaz, J. Erritzře, P. Galeotti, L. Z. Garamszegi, D. Gil, M. Gontard-Danek, S. Legendre, T. E. Martin, J. Martínez, M. Martín-Vivaldi, J. G. Martínez, S. Merino, J. Moreno, Tim Mousseau, P. Ninni, M. Petrie, F. Pulido, D. Rubolini, N. Saino, J. J. Soler, M. Soler, C. Spottiswoode, T. Szép, R. Thornhill, C. Zamora, and Roberto Sacchi
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MEDICINE:
Health Care in the Service of Science?

Uwe E. Reinhardt
Science 12 March 2004: 1613-1614.
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ASTROBIOLOGY:
Looking for Life in Far Distant Places

Larry R. Nittler
Science 12 March 2004: 1614.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ENVIRONMENT:
Avoiding Destructive Remediation at DOE Sites

F. W. Whicker, T. G. Hinton, M. M. MacDonell, J. E. Pinder III, and L. J. Habegger
Science 12 March 2004: 1615-1616.
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Seeing the World in the Same Way

Luiz Pessoa
Science 12 March 2004: 1617-1618.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: What Biogenic Minerals Tell Us

Danielle Fortin
Science 12 March 2004: 1618-1619.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Blocking Plasticity in the Visual Cortex

David Ferster
Science 12 March 2004: 1619-1621.
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PHYSICS:
Electron Spin Polarization in Nanoscale Constrictions

Jonathan P. Bird and Yuichi Ochiai
Science 12 March 2004: 1621-1622.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Microbes, Molecules, and Marine Ecosystems

Farooq Azam and Alexandra Z. Worden
Science 12 March 2004: 1622-1624.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Keeping the Gut Microflora at Bay

Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl and Max Corbett
Science 12 March 2004: 1624-1625.
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Review

Mobile Elements: Drivers of Genome Evolution

Haig H. Kazazian, Jr.
Science 12 March 2004: 1626-1632.
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Brevia

 Chlorophyll d in an Epiphytic Cyanobacterium of Red Algae

Akio Murakami, Hideaki Miyashita, Mineo Iseki, Kyoko Adachi, and Mamoru Mimuro
Science 12 March 2004: 1633.
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Research Articles

Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision

Uri Hasson, Yuval Nir, Ifat Levy, Galit Fuhrmann, and Rafael Malach
Science 12 March 2004: 1634-1640.
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The Wheat VRN2 Gene Is a Flowering Repressor Down-Regulated by Vernalization

Liuling Yan, Artem Loukoianov, Ann Blechl, Gabriela Tranquilli, Wusirika Ramakrishna, Phillip SanMiguel, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Viviana Echenique, and Jorge Dubcovsky
Science 12 March 2004: 1640-1644.
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Reports

Elastomeric Transistor Stamps: Reversible Probing of Charge Transport in Organic Crystals

Vikram C. Sundar, Jana Zaumseil, Vitaly Podzorov, Etienne Menard, Robert L. Willett, Takao Someya, Michael E. Gershenson, and John A. Rogers
Science 12 March 2004: 1644-1646.
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Dissipationless Anomalous Hall Current in the Ferromagnetic Spinel CuCr₂Se_4-xBr_x

Wei-Li Lee, Satoshi Watauchi, V. L. Miller, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong
Science 12 March 2004: 1647-1649.
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Glass Formation at the Limit of Insufficient Network Formers

S. Kohara, K. Suzuya, K. Takeuchi, C.-K. Loong, M. Grimsditch, J. K. R. Weber, J. A. Tangeman, and T. S. Key
Science 12 March 2004: 1649-1652.
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X-ray Diffraction Study of the Ultrathin Al₂O₃ Layer on NiAl(110)

A. Stierle, F. Renner, R. Streitel, H. Dosch, W. Drube, and B. C. Cowie
Science 12 March 2004: 1652-1656.
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Microbial Polysaccharides Template Assembly of Nanocrystal Fibers

Clara S. Chan, Gelsomina De Stasio, Susan A. Welch, Marco Girasole, Bradley H. Frazer, Maria V. Nesterova, Sirine Fakra, and Jillian F. Banfield
Science 12 March 2004: 1656-1658.
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Identification of Polymers as Major Components of Atmospheric Organic Aerosols

M. Kalberer, D. Paulsen, M. Sax, M. Steinbacher, J. Dommen, A. S. H. Prevot, R. Fisseha, E. Weingartner, V. Frankevich, R. Zenobi, and U. Baltensperger
Science 12 March 2004: 1659-1662.
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Induction of Protective IgA by Intestinal Dendritic Cells Carrying Commensal Bacteria

Andrew J. Macpherson and Therese Uhr
Science 12 March 2004: 1662-1665.
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Molecular Evolution of the SARS Coronavirus During the Course of the SARS Epidemic in China

The Chinese SARS Molecular Epidemiology Consortium
Science 12 March 2004: 1666-1669.
Published online 29 January 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092002] (in Science Express Reports)
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Evidence of a Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cell Line Derived from a Cloned Blastocyst

Woo Suk Hwang, Young June Ryu, Jong Hyuk Park, Eul Soon Park, Eu Gene Lee, Ja Min Koo, Hyun Yong Jeon, Byeong Chun Lee, Sung Keun Kang, Sun Jong Kim, Curie Ahn, Jung Hye Hwang, Ky Young Park, Jose B. Cibelli, and Shin Yong Moon
Science 12 March 2004: 1669-1674.
Published online 12 February 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1094515] (in Science Express Reports)
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Force-Clamp Spectroscopy Monitors the Folding Trajectory of a Single Protein

Julio M. Fernandez and Hongbin Li
Science 12 March 2004: 1674-1678.
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Columnar Architecture Sculpted by GABA Circuits in Developing Cat Visual Cortex

Takao K. Hensch and Michael P. Stryker
Science 12 March 2004: 1678-1681.
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Specific GABA_A Circuits for Visual Cortical Plasticity

Michela Fagiolini, Jean-Marc Fritschy, Karin Löw, Hanns Möhler, Uwe Rudolph, and Takao K. Hensch
Science 12 March 2004: 1681-1683.
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De Novo Crypt Formation and Juvenile Polyposis on BMP Inhibition in Mouse Intestine

Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis, Harry Begthel, Maaike van den Born, Johan van Es, Suzanne Jonkheer, G. Johan A. Offerhaus, and Hans Clevers
Science 12 March 2004: 1684-1686.
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