Dealing with Disasters

Resiliency in the Face of Disaster

Brooks Hanson and Leslie Roberts
Science 12 August 2005: 1029.
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News

The Tsunami's Psychological Aftermath

Greg Miller
Science 12 August 2005: 1030.
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Viewpoints

Toward Inherently Secure and Resilient Societies

Brad Allenby and Jonathan Fink
Science 12 August 2005: 1034-1036.
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Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

W. Neil Adger, Terry P. Hughes, Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, and Johan Rockström
Science 12 August 2005: 1036-1039.
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Insurance in a Climate of Change

Evan Mills
Science 12 August 2005: 1040-1044.
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Refocusing Disaster Aid

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Reinhard Mechler, and Georg Pflug
Science 12 August 2005: 1044-1046.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Heading Off an Influenza Pandemic

Edward C. Holmes, Jeffery K. Taubenberger, and Bryan T. Grenfell
Science 12 August 2005: 989.
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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

EVOLUTION:
Vatican Astronomer Rebuts Cardinal's Attack on Darwinism

Constance Holden
Science 12 August 2005: 996-997.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA:
'Pandemic Vaccine' Appears to Protect Only at High Doses

Martin Enserink
Science 12 August 2005: 996.
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GENOMICS:
Painstaking Approach Pays Off for Rice Sequencing Project

Dennis Normile
Science 12 August 2005: 997.
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HIV/AIDS:
Report of Novel Treatment Aimed at Latent HIV Raises the 'C Word'

Jon Cohen
Science 12 August 2005: 999-1000.
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BIOTECHNOLOGY:
Calming Fears, No Foreign Genes Found in Mexico's Maize

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 12 August 2005: 1000.
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PHYSICS:
Physicists Get the Dope on Disorder in High-Temperature Superconductors

Adrian Cho
Science 12 August 2005: 1001.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

HIV/AIDS:
Prevention Cocktails: Combining Tools to Stop HIV's Spread

Jon Cohen
Science 12 August 2005: 1002-1005.
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HIV/AIDS:
Hedged Bet: An Unusual AIDS Vaccine Trial

Jon Cohen
Science 12 August 2005: 1003.
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ECOLOGY:
Beloved Arctic Station Braces for Its Own Climate Change

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 12 August 2005: 1006-1008.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Unraveling Khipu's Secrets

Charles C. Mann
Science 12 August 2005: 1008-1009.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 12 August 2005: 1012.
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 Using Ethics to Fight Bioterrorism

Mark S. Frankel;, Lewyn Li;, Shane K. Green;, Johannes Rath, Bernhard Jank;, Ben Perman;, Peter C. Agre, Sidney Altman, Robert F. Curl, Torsten N. Wiesel, Mary Jane West-Eberhard;, Margaret Somerville, and Ronald Atlas
Science 12 August 2005: 1012-1017.
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 Madrid Center Not Quite in Limbo

Lisardo Boscá, Santiago Lamas, and Juan Miguel Redondo
Science 12 August 2005: 1017.
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 Corrections and Clarifications

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Books et al.

NEUROSCIENCE:
The Gap Between Golgi and Cajal

Edward Jones
Science 12 August 2005: 1018-1019.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
A Constrained View of Evo-Devo's Roots

Manfred Laubichler
Science 12 August 2005: 1019-1020.
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Books Received

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Policy Forum

SECURITY:
Microchallenges of Chemical Weapons Proliferation

Tuan H. Nguyen
Science 12 August 2005: 1021.
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Perspectives

COSMOLOGY:
Anthropic Reasoning

Mario Livio and Martin J. Rees
Science 12 August 2005: 1022-1023.
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PLANT SCIENCE:
Enhanced: The Right Time and Place for Making Flowers

Miguel A. Blázquez
Science 12 August 2005: 1024-1025.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Biogeochemical Cycling of Iron Isotopes

Clark M. Johnson and Brian L. Beard
Science 12 August 2005: 1025-1027.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Choosing the Crystallization Path Less Traveled

S. Weiner, I. Sagi, and L. Addadi
Science 12 August 2005: 1027-1028.
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Brevia

Soil Invertebrates Disrupt Carbon Flow Through Fungal Networks

David Johnson, Martin Krsek, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Andrew W. Stott, Lisa Cole, Richard D. Bardgett, David J. Read, and Jonathan R. Leake
Science 12 August 2005: 1047.
The massive flux of carbon through plants to soil via symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi can be reduced 32 percent by tiny soil insects that feed on the fungi. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Atomic-Scale Sources and Mechanism of Nanoscale Electronic Disorder in Bi₂Sr₂CaCu₂O₈₊

K. McElroy, Jinho Lee, J. A. Slezak, D.-H. Lee, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis
Science 12 August 2005: 1048-1052.
Dopant atoms in a high-temperature superconductor are shown by scanning probe microscopy to be close to areas of electronic disorder. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

FD, a bZIP Protein Mediating Signals from the Floral Pathway Integrator FT at the Shoot Apex

Mitsutomo Abe, Yasushi Kobayashi, Sumiko Yamamoto, Yasufumi Daimon, Ayako Yamaguchi, Yoko Ikeda, Harutaka Ichinoki, Michitaka Notaguchi, Koji Goto, and Takashi Araki
Science 12 August 2005: 1052-1056.
Two nuclear genes, one activated in the leaf and one in the shoot,work together to determine the time and location of flowering. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Integration of Spatial and Temporal Information During Floral Induction in Arabidopsis

Philip A. Wigge, Min Chul Kim, Katja E. Jaeger, Wolfgang Busch, Markus Schmid, Jan U. Lohmann, and Detlef Weigel
Science 12 August 2005: 1056-1059.
Two nuclear genes, one activated in the leaf and one in the shoot,work together to determine the time and location of flowering. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Origin of Brittle Cleavage in Iridium

Marc J. Cawkwell, Duc Nguyen-Manh, Christopher Woodward, David G. Pettifor, and Vaclav Vitek
Science 12 August 2005: 1059-1062.
Iridium's characteristic brittle cleavage, not seen in any other metal with its structure, is caused by the formation of two types of dislocations and rapid interchange between them. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Photochemical Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotopes in Achondritic Meteorites

Vinai K. Rai, Teresa L. Jackson, and Mark H. Thiemens
Science 12 August 2005: 1062-1065.
Sulfur in meteorites from early planetesimals has an anomolous isotopic distribution, probably preserved from photolysis reactions in the early solar nebula. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Khipu Accounting in Ancient Peru

Gary Urton and Carrie J. Brezine
Science 12 August 2005: 1065-1067.
Analysis of seven khipu, enigmatic knotted strings from the Inka empire, show that they were an accounting system for managing labor or tribute in the Inka bureaucracy. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Nature of Phosphorus Limitation in the Ultraoligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean

T. F. Thingstad, M. D. Krom, R. F. C. Mantoura, G. A. F. Flaten, S. Groom, B. Herut, N. Kress, C. S. Law, A. Pasternak, P. Pitta, S. Psarra, F. Rassoulzadegan, T. Tanaka, A. Tselepides, P. Wassmann, E. M. S. Woodward, C. Wexels Riser, G. Zodiatis, and T. Zohary
Science 12 August 2005: 1068-1071.
Adding phosphorus to phosphorus-poor waters in the Mediterranean Sea unexpectedly lowered the abundance of phytoplankton but increased that of bacteria and copepods. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Direct Control of Germline Stem Cell Division and Cyst Growth by Neural Insulin in Drosophila

Leesa LaFever and Daniela Drummond-Barbosa
Science 12 August 2005: 1071-1073.
Insulin-like peptides in the brain signal nutrient availability, directly regulating the division of germline stem cells, thus coordinating resource availability and reproduction. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

TAZ, a Transcriptional Modulator of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation

Jeong-Ho Hong, Eun Sook Hwang, Michael T. McManus, Adam Amsterdam, Yu Tian, Ralitsa Kalmukova, Elisabetta Mueller, Thomas Benjamin, Bruce M. Spiegelman, Phillip A. Sharp, Nancy Hopkins, and Michael B. Yaffe
Science 12 August 2005: 1074-1078.
A regulatory protein binds to transcription factors via a four--amino acid domain, directing stem cells to become bone cells while inhibiting their differentiation into fat cells. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Formation of Regulatory Patterns During Signal Propagation in a Mammalian Cellular Network

Avi Ma'ayan, Sherry L. Jenkins, Susana Neves, Anthony Hasseldine, Elizabeth Grace, Benjamin Dubin-Thaler, Narat J. Eungdamrong, Gehzi Weng, Prahlad T. Ram, J. Jeremy Rice, Aaron Kershenbaum, Gustavo A. Stolovitzky, Robert D. Blitzer, and Ravi Iyengar
Science 12 August 2005: 1078-1083.
A network in hippocampal neurons having 545 components with 1259 interactions suggests how cells may process information to allow transient or stable responses. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Containing Pandemic Influenza at the Source

Ira M. Longini, Jr., Azhar Nizam, Shufu Xu, Kumnuan Ungchusak, Wanna Hanshaoworakul, Derek A. T. Cummings, and M. Elizabeth Halloran
Science 12 August 2005: 1083-1087.
Published online 3 August 2005 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1115717] (in Science Express Reports)
A model of a southeast Asian population predicts that a hypothetical emergent flu strain may be containable with antiviral agents, quarantine, and prevaccination. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

In Situ Stable Isotope Probing of Methanogenic Archaea in the Rice Rhizosphere

Yahai Lu and Ralf Conrad
Science 12 August 2005: 1088-1090.
An Archaean microbe in anoxic soils of rice paddies produces much of the atmospheric greenhouse gas methane that results from human activities. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Complete Genome Sequence and Lytic Phase Transcription Profile of a Coccolithovirus

William H. Wilson, Declan C. Schroeder, Michael J. Allen, Matthew T. G. Holden, Julian Parkhill, Bart G. Barrell, Carol Churcher, Nancy Hamlin, Karen Mungall, Halina Norbertczak, Michael A. Quail, Claire Price, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Danielle Walker, Marie Craigon, Douglas Roy, and Peter Ghazal
Science 12 August 2005: 1090-1092.
A large virus that infects marine algae unexpectedly harbors genes for apoptosis and transcription, thought to be absent from viruses. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Basis for the Activation of Cholera Toxin by Human ARF6-GTP

Claire J. O'Neal, Michael G. Jobling, Randall K. Holmes, and Wim G. J. Hol
Science 12 August 2005: 1093-1096.
Cholera toxin hijacks a human G protein during infection, activating it by causing conformational changes that open the active site to substrates. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Pre-Unfolding Resonant Oscillations of Single Green Fluorescent Protein Molecules

Giancarlo Baldini, Fabio Cannone, and Giuseppe Chirico
Science 12 August 2005: 1096-1100.
A protein on the verge of unfolding oscillates with a millisecond period between two conformations and can be driven back and forth by resonant electric and acoustic fields. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

 Comment on "Molybdenum Isotope Evidence for Widespread Anoxia in Mid-Proterozoic Oceans"

H.-F. Ling, J.-F. Gao, K.-D. Zhao, S.-Y. Jiang, and D.-S. Ma
Science 12 August 2005: 1017.
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 Response to Comment on "Molybdenum Isotope Evidence for Widespread Anoxia in Mid-Proterozoic Oceans"

A. D. Anbar, G. L. Arnold, T. W. Lyons, and J. Barling
Science 12 August 2005: 1017.
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