This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Science of Social Diseases

Christopher Dye
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 New Products

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News of the Week

ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES:
NOAA Loses Funding to Gather Long-Term Climate Data

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 14 January 2005: 188.
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RAINFALL MONITORING:
Report Bucks NASA's Plan to End Mission

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 January 2005: 189.
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CLINICAL TRIALS:
Facing Criticism, Industry Offers to Share Data

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 January 2005: 189.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE:
Polio Eradication Effort Adds New Weapon to Its Armory

Leslie Roberts
Science 14 January 2005: 190.
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SOUTH ASIA TSUNAMI:
U.S. Clamor Grows for Global Network of Ocean Sensors

Eli Kintisch
Science 14 January 2005: 191.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
New Fossils Show Dinosaurs Weren't the Only Raptors

Erik Stokstad
Science 14 January 2005: 192.
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ITALY:
Synchrotron Staff Protests Funding Cuts

Alexander Hellemans
Science 14 January 2005: 192.
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BIOMEDICINE:
As the Worm Ages: Epilepsy Drugs Lengthen Nematode Life Span

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 14 January 2005: 193.
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS:
Plan for Chiropractic School Riles Florida Faculty

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 14 January 2005: 194.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Bird Wings Really Are Like Dinosaurs' Hands

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 14 January 2005: 194.
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STEM CELLS:
California's Bold $3 Billion Initiative Hits the Ground Running

Constance Holden
Science 14 January 2005: 195.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

DRUG SAFETY:
Gaps in the Safety Net

Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 January 2005: 196-198.
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RADIATION HAZARDS:
Kyrgyzstan's Race to Stabilize Buried Ponds of Uranium Waste

Richard Stone
Science 14 January 2005: 198-200.
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SOUTH ASIA TSUNAMI:
Failure to Gauge the Quake Crippled the Warning Effort

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 January 2005: 201.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
A Lively Core Turns Mercury Into an Enormous Electromagnet

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 January 2005: 202.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
What's Going On in Saturn's E Ring?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 January 2005: 202-203.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Scary Arctic Ice Loss? Blame the Wind

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 January 2005: 203.
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AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION MEETING:
Snapshots From the Meeting

Richard A. Kerr
Science 14 January 2005: 203.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Retraction

Owen N. Witte, Janusz H. Kabarowski, Yan Xu, Lu Q. Le, and Kui Zhu
Science 14 January 2005: 206.
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 Scientific Priorities in North Korea

Courtland Robinson, Myung-Ken Lee, Gilbert Burnham;, and Norman P. Neureiter
Science 14 January 2005: 206-207.
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 North Korea and Renewable Energy

David F. Von Hippel and Peter Hayes
Science 14 January 2005: 207.
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 Inflammation and Life-Span

Calogero Caruso, Giuseppina Candore, Giuseppina Colonna-Romano, Domenico Lio, Claudio Franceschi;, Anthony G. Payne;, Caleb E. Finch, and Eileen M. Crimmins
Science 14 January 2005: 208-209.
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Lost in Translation?

Stuart McCook
Science 14 January 2005: 210-211.
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MARINE ECOLOGY:
Voice of the Turtle

Fredric J. Janzen
Science 14 January 2005: 211.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 Target

Andrew Balmford, Leon Bennun, Ben ten Brink, David Cooper, Isabelle M. Côte, Peter Crane, Andrew Dobson, Nigel Dudley, Ian Dutton, Rhys E. Green, Richard D. Gregory, Jeremy Harrison, Elizabeth T. Kennedy, Claire Kremen, Nigel Leader-Williams, Thomas E. Lovejoy, Georgina Mace, Robert May, Phillipe Mayaux, Paul Morling, Joanna Phillips, Kent Redford, Taylor H. Ricketts, Jon Paul Rodríguez, M. Sanjayan, Peter J. Schei, Albert S. van Jaarsveld, and Bruno A. Walther
Science 14 January 2005: 212-213.
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Perspectives

MICROBIOLOGY:
Enhanced: TB--A New Target, a New Drug

Stewart T. Cole and Pedro M. Alzari
Science 14 January 2005: 214-215.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
A Ringing Confirmation of Spintronics Theory

Mark Covington
Science 14 January 2005: 215-216.
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CHEMISTRY:
Odd Electron on Nitrogen: A Metal-Stabilized Aminyl Radical

Wolfgang Kaim
Science 14 January 2005: 216-217.
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CELL SIGNALING:
Stat Acetylation--A Key Facet of Cytokine Signaling?

John J. O'Shea, Yuka Kanno, Xiaomin Chen, and David E. Levy
Science 14 January 2005: 217-218.
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Review

Testing Hypotheses: Prediction and Prejudice

Peter Lipton
Science 14 January 2005: 219-221.
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Brevia

The First Glacial Maximum in North America

Greg Balco, Charles W. Rovey, II, and John O. H. Stone
Science 14 January 2005: 222.
Cosmic ray dating of glacial deposits in Missouri shows that one of the first large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets extended that far south 2.4 million years ago. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Article

A Diarylquinoline Drug Active on the ATP Synthase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Koen Andries, Peter Verhasselt, Jerome Guillemont, Hinrich W. H. Göhlmann, Jean-Marc Neefs, Hans Winkler, Jef Van Gestel, Philip Timmerman, Min Zhu, Ennis Lee, Peter Williams, Didier de Chaffoy, Emma Huitric, Sven Hoffner, Emmanuelle Cambau, Chantal Truffot-Pernot, Nacer Lounis, and Vincent Jarlier
Science 14 January 2005: 223-227.
Published online 9 December 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1106753] (in Science Express Research Articles)
A high-potency antibiotic that acts through a different pathway than do existing drugs kills tuberculosis-causing microbes effectively (including resistant ones) and is safe for humans. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Time-Domain Measurements of Nanomagnet Dynamics Driven by Spin-Transfer Torques

I. N. Krivorotov, N. C. Emley, J. C. Sankey, S. I. Kiselev, D. C. Ralph, and R. A. Buhrman
Science 14 January 2005: 228-231.
Injection of electrons with specific spins into a nanomagnet can induce the magnetic moment to precess or even reverse. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Al Cluster Superatoms as Halogens in Polyhalides and as Alkaline Earths in Iodide Salts

D. E. Bergeron, P. J. Roach, A. W. Castleman, Jr., N. O. Jones, and S. N. Khanna
Science 14 January 2005: 231-235.
Large clusters of aluminum and iodine atoms act like individual superhalogen or alkali-earth atoms and drive the outcome of chemical reactions. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Stable Aminyl Radical Metal Complex

Torsten Büttner, Jens Geier, Gilles Frison, Jeffrey Harmer, Carlos Calle, Arthur Schweiger, Hartmut Schönberg, and Hansjörg Grützmacher
Science 14 January 2005: 235-238.
An otherwise highly reactive molecule bearing an electron-deficient nitrogen atom is stabilized by coordination to rhodium. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Encapsulation of Molecular Hydrogen in Fullerene C₆₀ by Organic Synthesis

Koichi Komatsu, Michihisa Murata, and Yasujiro Murata
Science 14 January 2005: 238-240.
A fullerene derivative contains a 13-membered ring that can be opened and closed in four reaction steps to create new molecules with hydrogen or other gases trapped within C₆₀. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Corrected Late Triassic Latitudes for Continents Adjacent to the North Atlantic

Dennis V. Kent and Lisa Tauxe
Science 14 January 2005: 240-244.
A model reveals the latitudes at which sedimentary rocks formed by accounting for the rotation of the past direction of Earth's magnetic field preserved in the rocks. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Astronomical 2175 Å Feature in Interplanetary Dust Particles

John Bradley, Zu Rong Dai, Rolf Erni, Nigel Browning, Giles Graham, Peter Weber, Julie Smith, Ian Hutcheon, Hope Ishii, Sasa Bajt, Christine Floss, Frank Stadermann, and Scott Sandford
Science 14 January 2005: 244-247.
Laboratory spectra of organic carbon and amorphous silica grains found in dust particles from space resemble and can explain the enigmatic spectra of ubiquitous interstellar dust. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Retinoic Acid Signaling Restricts the Cardiac Progenitor Pool

Brian R. Keegan, Jessica L. Feldman, Gerrit Begemann, Philip W. Ingham, and Deborah Yelon
Science 14 January 2005: 247-249.
A hormone that controls many of the later steps in heart formation also acts early in development to determine the number of cells in the heart and thus its ultimate size. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Global Circumnavigations: Tracking Year-Round Ranges of Nonbreeding Albatrosses

John P. Croxall, Janet R. D. Silk, Richard A. Phillips, Vsevolod Afanasyev, and Dirk R. Briggs
Science 14 January 2005: 249-250.
Tracking of albatrosses shows that some circumnavigate the globe in less than two months, whereas others wander to the Indian Ocean or near their breeding area. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

No Transcription-Translation Feedback in Circadian Rhythm of KaiC Phosphorylation

Jun Tomita, Masato Nakajima, Takao Kondo, and Hideo Iwasaki
Science 14 January 2005: 251-254.
Published online 18 November 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1102540] (in Science Express Reports)
In cyanobacteria, cycling of a component of the circadian clock is driven by its periodic phosphorylation, not by periodic transcription or translation as in other species. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

CX₃CR1-Mediated Dendritic Cell Access to the Intestinal Lumen and Bacterial Clearance

Jan Hendrik Niess, Stephan Brand, Xiubin Gu, Limor Landsman, Steffen Jung, Beth A. McCormick, Jatin M. Vyas, Marianne Boes, Hidde L. Ploegh, James G. Fox, Dan R. Littman, and Hans-Christian Reinecker
Science 14 January 2005: 254-258.
A specialized receptor for a hormone is required for immune cells in the gut to sample the intestinal contents and provide protection from pathogenic bacteria. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Anticonvulsant Medications Extend Worm Life-Span

Kimberley Evason, Cheng Huang, Idella Yamben, Douglas F. Covey, and Kerry Kornfeld
Science 14 January 2005: 258-262.
Drugs used to treat human seizures also retard the aging process in adult worms, suggesting an approach to delay aging in humans. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Self-Propagating, Molecular-Level Polymorphism in Alzheimer's ß-Amyloid Fibrils

Aneta T. Petkova, Richard D. Leapman, Zhihong Guo, Wai-Ming Yau, Mark P. Mattson, and Robert Tycko
Science 14 January 2005: 262-265.
The amyloid associated with Alzheimer's disease has properties reminiscent of prion proteins, forming fibrils with distinct heritable structures and different toxicities. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Semaphorin 3E and Plexin-D1 Control Vascular Pattern Independently of Neuropilins

Chenghua Gu, Yutaka Yoshida, Jean Livet, Dorothy V. Reimert, Fanny Mann, Janna Merte, Christopher E. Henderson, Thomas M. Jessell, Alex L. Kolodkin, and David D. Ginty
Science 14 January 2005: 265-268.
Published online 18 November 2004 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1105416] (in Science Express Reports)
A mouse guidance molecule requires two coreceptors to direct neuronal development but only one to sculpt the vasculature. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Stat3 Dimerization Regulated by Reversible Acetylation of a Single Lysine Residue

Zheng-long Yuan, Ying-jie Guan, Devasis Chatterjee, and Y. Eugene Chin
Science 14 January 2005: 269-273.
Transcription factors known to be regulated by phosphorylation can also be modified by acetylation, which activates cytokine production via dimerization. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|