This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 2 July 2004: 13.
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Editorial:
Playing Politics with Women's Lives

Adrienne Germain
Science 2 July 2004: 17.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 2 July 2004: 19.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 2 July 2004: 23.
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 New Products

Science 2 July 2004: 107.
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News of the Week

POLIO:
Health Workers Scramble to Contain African Epidemic

Leslie Roberts
Science 2 July 2004: 24-25.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Feeling the Heat, NIH Tightens Conflict-of-Interest Rules

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 2 July 2004: 25-26.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Signs of Ancient Rain May Stretch Mars's Balmy Past

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 July 2004: 26.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
More Data But No Answers on Powers of Adult Stem Cells

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 July 2004: 27.
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NASA:
Will New Lineup Transform or Deform Science?

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 July 2004: 28.
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GEOSCIENCES:
Regional Society Debuts at Singapore Meeting

Dennis Normile
Science 2 July 2004: 28.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
U.K. Researchers Win Concessions on Draft Tissue Law

Fiona Proffitt
Science 2 July 2004: 29.
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ScienceScope

Science 2 July 2004: 27.
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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANTHROPOLOGY:
The Slow Deaths of Writing

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 July 2004: 30-33.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
No Pen or Ink Needed

Andrew Lawler
Science 2 July 2004: 32.
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS:
Berlin's Scientific Treasure House Shakes Off the Dust

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 July 2004: 35-37.
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NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS:
Museums That Made a Master

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 2 July 2004: 37.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 July 2004: 40.
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 Plant Patents and Agriculture

Sandy Thomas
Science 2 July 2004: 40.
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 CGIAR's Role in Agriculture

Curtis Farrar
Science 2 July 2004: 40.
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 Living and Nonliving Matter

Boguslaw Stec;, Steen Rasmussen, Mark A. Bedau, Liaohai Chen, David W. Deamer, David C. Krakauer, Norman H. Packard, and Peter F. Stadler
Science 2 July 2004: 41-44.
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 A Model for Promoting Research in Education

A. O. Dennis Willows
Science 2 July 2004: 43.
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 A Plea for Further Human Spaceflight

Jean Lagarde
Science 2 July 2004: 43.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE:
Messing with Common Sense

Miriam Solomon
Science 2 July 2004: 44-45.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Was the Culprit Climate or Culture?

Richard G. Klein
Science 2 July 2004: 45.
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 Books Received

Science 2 July 2004: 45.

Essays on Science and Society

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
80 Years of Watching the Evolutionary Scenery

Ernst Mayr
Science 2 July 2004: 46-47.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
The Golgi Goes Fission

Aipo Diao and Martin Lowe
Science 2 July 2004: 48-49.
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ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: Imaging the Sun's Eruptions in Three Dimensions

John C. Raymond
Science 2 July 2004: 49-50.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Let There Be (NADH) Light

Luc Pellerin and Pierre J. Magistretti
Science 2 July 2004: 50-52.
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PHYSICS:
Electronic Frustration on a Triangular Lattice

N. P. Ong and R. J. Cava
Science 2 July 2004: 52-53.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Getting to Know Homo erectus

Jeffrey H. Schwartz
Science 2 July 2004: 53-54.
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Review

Linking Albinism and Immunity: The Secrets of Secretory Lysosomes

Jane Stinchcombe, Giovanna Bossi, and Gillian M. Griffiths
Science 2 July 2004: 55-59.
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Brevia

Path Integration in Desert Ants Controls Aggressiveness

Markus Knaden and Rüdiger Wehner
Science 2 July 2004: 60.
Desert ants fight members of other colonies when they are close to their own nest or when their path-length detectors tell them they are. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Research Article

Dissection of the Mammalian Midbody Proteome Reveals Conserved Cytokinesis Mechanisms

Ahna R. Skop, Hongbin Liu, John Yates, III, Barbara J. Meyer, and Rebecca Heald
Science 2 July 2004: 61-66.
Published online 27 May 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1097931] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Proteomic analysis shows that many proteins known to participate in cell furrow formation and endocytosis, plus 100 new ones, are required for the separation of daughter cells. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Three-Dimensional Polarimetric Imaging of Coronal Mass Ejections

Thomas G. Moran and Joseph M. Davila
Science 2 July 2004: 66-70.
Published online 27 May 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1098937] (in Science Express Reports)
A three-dimensional view of solar mass ejections is revealed by examination of emitted polarized light, providing information important for space weather preparations. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Mass Spectrometric Imaging of Highly Curved Membranes During Tetrahymena Mating

Sara G. Ostrowski, Craig T. Van Bell, Nicholas Winograd, and Andrew G. Ewing
Science 2 July 2004: 71-73.
The fusion of membranes during mating may be driven by local concentrations of a lipid that forms a high-curvature bilayer. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Chiral Fiber Gratings

Victor I. Kopp, Victor M. Churikov, Jonathan Singer, Norman Chao, Daniel Neugroschl, and Azriel Z. Genack
Science 2 July 2004: 74-75.
Optical fibers manufactured with a regular periodic twist can selectively transmit specific wavelengths of polarized light. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Small Mid-Pleistocene Hominin Associated with East African Acheulean Technology

Richard Potts, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Alan Deino, Peter Ditchfield, and Jennifer Clark
Science 2 July 2004: 75-78.
A cranium from a hominid in Kenya from 900,000 years ago, a period with more abundant Eurasian fossils, indicates a wide variation in hominid morphology at this time. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Evidence for Precipitation on Mars from Dendritic Valleys in the Valles Marineris Area

Nicolas Mangold, Cathy Quantin, Véronique Ansan, Christophe Delacourt, and Pascal Allemand
Science 2 July 2004: 78-81.
Dendritic valley networks extending for hundreds of kilometers on Mars suggest that sustained periods of rain formed rivers during warm periods about 3 billion years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Normal Function of a Speciation Gene, Odysseus, and Its Hybrid Sterility Effect

Sha Sun, Chau-Ti Ting, and Chung-I Wu
Science 2 July 2004: 81-83.
A gene responsible for speciation is found to promote male hybrid sterility by affecting sperm function. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Adaptive Radiation from Resource Competition in Digital Organisms

Stephanie S. Chow, Claus O. Wilke, Charles Ofria, Richard E. Lenski, and Christoph Adami
Science 2 July 2004: 84-86.
A digital ecosystem evolves to become species-rich in a homogeneous environment with intermediate productivity. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Self-Assembling Protein Microarrays

Niroshan Ramachandran, Eugenie Hainsworth, Bhupinder Bhullar, Samuel Eisenstein, Benjamin Rosen, Albert Y. Lau, Johannes C. Walter, and Joshua LaBaer
Science 2 July 2004: 86-90.
Better protein microarrays can be built by attaching DNA that codes for the desired protein to a glass slide and then synthesizing the protein during the assay. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Lack of a Fusion Requirement for Development of Bone Marrow-Derived Epithelia

Robert G. Harris, Erica L. Herzog, Emanuela M. Bruscia, Joanna E. Grove, John S. Van Arnam, and Diane S. Krause
Science 2 July 2004: 90-93.
Cells from donor bone marrow can form differentiated epithelial cells in the lung, liver, and skin, without having fused with existing resident cells. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Mitotic Golgi Partitioning Is Driven by the Membrane-Fissioning Protein CtBP3/BARS

Cristina Hidalgo Carcedo, Matteo Bonazzi, Stefania Spanò, Gabriele Turacchio, Antonino Colanzi, Alberto Luini, and Daniela Corda
Science 2 July 2004: 93-96.
For cell division to begin, a fission protein must first break up intracellular Golgi membranes in preparation for their partitioning into the daughter cells. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Sites of Neocortical Reorganization Critical for Remote Spatial Memory

Thibault Maviel, Thomas P. Durkin, Frédérique Menzaghi, and Bruno Bontempi
Science 2 July 2004: 96-99.
In mice, events first processed as signals in the hippocampus require integration by several interacting cortical areas for consolidation into long-term memory. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Neural Activity Triggers Neuronal Oxidative Metabolism Followed by Astrocytic Glycolysis

Karl A. Kasischke, Harshad D. Vishwasrao, Patricia J. Fisher, Warren R. Zipfel, and Watt W. Webb
Science 2 July 2004: 99-103.
Two-photon analysis of neural tissue shows that astrocytes feed glycolysis-generated lactate to neurons, which oxidize the lactate to supply energy for maintaining ionic balances. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   HTML Page - index.htslp »|  

Inhibition of Netrin-Mediated Axon Attraction by a Receptor Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase

Chieh Chang, Timothy W. Yu, Cornelia I. Bargmann, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Science 2 July 2004: 103-106.
A membrane-bound receptor in neurons helps their growing axons interpret a cacophony of attractive and inhibitory signals. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|