This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
A European CDC?

Hans Wigzell
Science 18 March 2005: 1691.
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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

BIOETHICS:
Anticloning Forces Launch Second-Term Offensive

Eli Kintisch
Science 18 March 2005: 1702-1703.
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BIOETHICS:
U.N. Settles on Nonbinding Resolution

Gretchen Vogel
Science 18 March 2005: 1702.
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CONFLICT-OF-INTEREST POLICY:
NIH Rules Make Some Pack, Others Plead

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 18 March 2005: 1703.
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EVOLUTION:
Special Hemoglobin Helped Swim Bladders Give Fish Diversity a Lift

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 18 March 2005: 1705.
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS:
Safety Research Falls Foul of German Politics

Gretchen Vogel
Science 18 March 2005: 1706.
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GRADUATE SCHOOLS:
Drop in Foreign Applications Slows

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 18 March 2005: 1706.
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MARINE GEOLOGY:
Pursued for 40 Years, the Moho Evades Ocean Drillers Once Again

Richard A. Kerr
Science 18 March 2005: 1707.
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AIDS CLINICAL TRIALS:
More Woes for Novel HIV Prevention Approach

Jon Cohen
Science 18 March 2005: 1708.
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GENETICS:
Mutterings From the Silenced X Chromosome

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 18 March 2005: 1708.
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NASA:
Nominee Wins Quick Praise for His Technical Expertise

Andrew Lawler
Science 18 March 2005: 1709.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enceladus, a Work in Progress

Richard A. Kerr
Science 18 March 2005: 1709.
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DIABETES RESEARCH:
Researchers Puzzle Over Possible Effect of Gleevec

Jennifer Couzin
Science 18 March 2005: 1711.
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FRENCH SCIENCE:
INSERM Doubts Criminality in Growth Hormone Case

Barbara Casassus
Science 18 March 2005: 1711.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

DRUG DISCOVERY:
Magnificent Obsession

Jennifer Couzin
Science 18 March 2005: 1712-1715.
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HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS:
"Amateur" Proofs Blend Religion and Scholarship in Ancient Japan

Dennis Normile
Science 18 March 2005: 1715-1716.
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
Provocative Study Says Obesity May Reduce U.S. Life Expectancy

Charles C. Mann
Science 18 March 2005: 1716-1717.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Combining Parenting and a Science Career

Carl Djerassi;, Amanda L. Lewis, Tasha K. Altheide, Ajit Varki, Karen Arden, Nissi M. Varki;, and Andres Peekna
Science 18 March 2005: 1720-1721.
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 Crying "Whorf"

Daniel Casasanto; and Peter Gordon
Science 18 March 2005: 1721-1722.
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 Recombinant Virus Bank for Gene Delivery

Kazunari K. Yokoyama, Takehide Murata, Hideyo Ugai, Erika Suzuki, Miho Terashima, Yukari Kujime, Sanae Inamoto, Megumi Hirose, Kumiko Inabe, and Takahito Yamasaki
Science 18 March 2005: 1722.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ORNITHOLOGY:
Sweet Bird Most Musical

Bernard Lohr
Science 18 March 2005: 1723-1724.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Shining a Light on Semiconductors

James R. Chelikowsky
Science 18 March 2005: 1724.
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  Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Are U.S. Coral Reefs on the Slippery Slope to Slime?

J. M. Pandolfi, J. B. C. Jackson, N. Baron, R. H. Bradbury, H. M. Guzman, T. P. Hughes, C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, J. C. Ogden, H. P. Possingham, and E. Sala
Science 18 March 2005: 1725-1726.
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Perspectives

CANCER:
An Anchor for Tumor Cell Invasion

Stuart H. Yuspa and Ervin H. Epstein Jr.
Science 18 March 2005: 1727-1728.
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EVOLUTION:
Fossil Horses--Evidence for Evolution

Bruce J. MacFadden
Science 18 March 2005: 1728-1730.
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PHYSICS:
Toward Creating a Rutherford Atom

David M. Villeneuve
Science 18 March 2005: 1730-1731.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Ras on the Roundabout

Doris Meder and Kai Simons
Science 18 March 2005: 1731-1733.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Toward Quantum-Information Processing with Photons

Ian A. Walmsley and Michael G. Raymer
Science 18 March 2005: 1733-1734.
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Review

The Molecular Requirements for Cytokinesis

Michael Glotzer
Science 18 March 2005: 1735-1739.
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Brevia

Self-Organized Origami

L. Mahadevan and S. Rica
Science 18 March 2005: 1740.
When a thin object shaped like a leaf or petal is compressed laterally—for example, by growth or heating—coherent spatial waves are produced that lead to self-organized folding. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Southern Hemisphere Water Mass Conversion Linked with North Atlantic Climate Variability

Katharina Pahnke and Rainer Zahn
Science 18 March 2005: 1741-1746.
Past changes in mid-depth water formation near Antarctica coincided with both abrupt warming in the Southern Hemisphere and deep water formation in the North Atlantic, implying an atmospheric connection. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Acylation Cycle Regulates Localization and Activity of Palmitoylated Ras Isoforms

Oliver Rocks, Anna Peyker, Martin Kahms, Peter J. Verveer, Carolin Koerner, Maria Lumbierres, Jürgen Kuhlmann, Herbert Waldmann, Alfred Wittinghofer, and Philippe I. H. Bastiaens
Science 18 March 2005: 1746-1752.
Published online 10 February 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1105654] (in Science Express Research Articles)
A small signaling protein moves from the plasma membrane to the Golgi apparatus and back, as a lipid is added to and taken off the protein. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Evolution of Oxygen Secretion in Fishes and the Emergence of a Complex Physiological System

Michael Berenbrink, Pia Koldkjær, Oliver Kepp, and Andrew R. Cossins
Science 18 March 2005: 1752-1757.
The evolution of swim bladders in fish, which inflate with oxygen to control buoyancy, required a series of interrelated changes in hemoglobin, proton transporters, and the development of a complex vascular network. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Microwave Manipulation of an Atomic Electron in a Classical Orbit

H. Maeda, D. V. L. Norum, and T. F. Gallagher
Science 18 March 2005: 1757-1760.
Published online 10 February 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1108470] (in Science Express Reports)
Adjusting the frequency of an applied microwave field produces and allows control of a planet-like orbit of an excited electron around a lithium nucleus. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Rheological Measurements of the Thermoviscoelastic Response of Ultrathin Polymer Films

P. A. O'Connell and G. B. McKenna
Science 18 March 2005: 1760-1763.
Observing the shape of bubbles inflated in a polymer film shows that thin films can be less flexible than bulk material but still transform to a glass-like state at similar temperatures. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

The Controlled Evolution of a Polymer Single Crystal

Xiaogang Liu, Yi Zhang, Dipak K. Goswami, John S. Okasinski, Khalid Salaita, Peng Sun, Michael J. Bedzyk, and Chad A. Mirkin
Science 18 March 2005: 1763-1766.
An atomic force microscope coated with a polymer solution is used to nucleate a polymer on a surface, then control and monitor its growth. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Climate Change Commitment

T. M. L. Wigley
Science 18 March 2005: 1766-1769.
Two climate models indicate that even if stabilization of greenhouse gases at 2000 or 2005 levels were possible, sea level would still rise 30 cm from thermal expansion alone and much more from glacial melting. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

How Much More Global Warming and Sea Level Rise?

Gerald A. Meehl, Warren M. Washington, William D. Collins, Julie M. Arblaster, Aixue Hu, Lawrence E. Buja, Warren G. Strand, and Haiyan Teng
Science 18 March 2005: 1769-1772.
Two climate models indicate that even if stabilization of greenhouse gases at 2000 or 2005 levels were possible, sea level would still rise 30 cm from thermal expansion alone and much more from glacial melting. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Type VII Collagen Is Required for Ras-Driven Human Epidermal Tumorigenesis

Susana Ortiz-Urda, John Garcia, Cheryl L. Green, Lei Chen, Qun Lin, Dallas P. Veitch, Lynn Y. Sakai, Hyangkyu Lee, M. Peter Marinkovich, and Paul A. Khavari
Science 18 March 2005: 1773-1776.
An abnormal fragment of collagen, a protein that forms a structural matrix outside of cells, causes certain forms of human skin cancer by disrupting the usual controls on cell migration. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Uncharged tRNA and Sensing of Amino Acid Deficiency in Mammalian Piriform Cortex

Shuzhen Hao, James W. Sharp, Catherine M. Ross-Inta, Brent J. McDaniel, Tracy G. Anthony, Ronald C. Wek, Douglas R. Cavener, Barbara C. McGrath, John B. Rudell, Thomas J. Koehnle, and Dorothy W. Gietzen
Science 18 March 2005: 1776-1778.
The neurons in the mammalian brain sense which amino acids are missing from the diet by monitoring levels of their uncharged tRNAs, the same system that is used by yeast. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Human Symbionts Use a Host-Like Pathway for Surface Fucosylation

Michael J. Coyne, Barbara Reinap, Martin M. Lee, and Laurie E. Comstock
Science 18 March 2005: 1778-1781.
The most common microorganism in the human gut coats itself in a sugar molecule identical to one decorating the surface of gut cells and thus escapes immune detection. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Mitotic Septin Scaffold Required for Mammalian Chromosome Congression and Segregation

Elias T. Spiliotis, Makoto Kinoshita, and W. James Nelson
Science 18 March 2005: 1781-1785.
During cell division, a polymerizing GTP-binding protein helps chromosomes bunch together and then move to the appropriate daughter cell. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Extrusion and Death of DPP/BMP-Compromised Epithelial Cells in the Developing Drosophila Wing

Matthew C. Gibson and Norbert Perrimon
Science 18 March 2005: 1785-1789.
Cells in fly wings lacking an important signaling pathway have abnormal cytoskeletons and so are pushed out of the normal flat tissue as blebs, but contrary to early assumptions, they do not die. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Extrusion of Cells with Inappropriate Dpp Signaling from Drosophila Wing Disc Epithelia

Jie Shen and Christian Dahmann
Science 18 March 2005: 1789-1790.
Cells in fly wings lacking an important signaling pathway have abnormal cytoskeletons and so are pushed out of the normal flat tissue as blebs, but contrary to early assumptions, they do not die. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|