Frontiers of Social Sciences: Life Cycles

Science Looks at Life

Barbara Jasny, Donald Kennedy, and Eliot Marshall
Science 30 June 2006: 1893.
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News

The Baby Deficit

Michael Balter
Science 30 June 2006: 1894-1897.
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The Bomb That Wasn't

Michael Balter
Science 30 June 2006: 1896.
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Perspectives

Some Frontiers in Social Science

William P. Butz and Barbara Boyle Torrey
Science 30 June 2006: 1898-1900.
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Skill Formation and the Economics of Investing in Disadvantaged Children

James J. Heckman
Science 30 June 2006: 1900-1902.
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Studying Adolescence

Linda M. Richter
Science 30 June 2006: 1902-1905.
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Politics and the Life Cycle

Donald R. Kinder
Science 30 June 2006: 1905-1908.
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Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? A Focusing Illusion

Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, David Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, and Arthur A. Stone
Science 30 June 2006: 1908-1910.
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Redistributing Work in Aging Europe

James W. Vaupel and Elke Loichinger
Science 30 June 2006: 1911-1913.
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The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development

Laura L. Carstensen
Science 30 June 2006: 1913-1915.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Alarm Bells Should Help Us Refocus

Neal Lane
Science 30 June 2006: 1847.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 30 June 2006: 1848.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 30 June 2006: 1851.
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NEW PRODUCTS

Science 30 June 2006: 1971.
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News of the Week

CLIMATE CHANGE: Yes, It's Been Getting Warmer in Here Since the CO₂ Began to Rise

Richard A. Kerr
Science 30 June 2006: 1854.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: Journal Letter Spotlights China's Bird Flu Reporting

Dennis Normile
Science 30 June 2006: 1855-1857.
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AVIAN INFLUENZA: Human Transmission But No Pandemic in Indonesia

Dennis Normile
Science 30 June 2006: 1855.
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WAR ZONE: Targeted for Murder, Iraqi Scientists Named on a Hit List

Richard Stone
Science 30 June 2006: 1857-1858.
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ETHICS: Blocking a Book, Dutch University Rekindles Furor Over Nobelist Debye

Martin Enserink
Science 30 June 2006: 1858.
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DIVERSITY: Report Urges National Academies to Improve Status of Women

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 30 June 2006: 1859.
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PALEOCLIMATOLOGY: Atlantic Mud Shows How Melting Ice Triggered an Ancient Chill

Richard A. Kerr
Science 30 June 2006: 1860.
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ANIMAL BEHAVIOR: Signs of Empathy Seen in Mice

Greg Miller
Science 30 June 2006: 1860-1861.
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CHEMISTRY: Sugary Recipe Boosts Grow-Your-Own Plastics

Robert F. Service
Science 30 June 2006: 1861.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

MOUSE GENETICS: A Mouse for Every Gene

David Grimm
Science 30 June 2006: 1862-1866.
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MOUSE GENETICS: NIH Knocks Out Key Mouse House

David Grimm
Science 30 June 2006: 1863.
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MOUSE GENETICS: China Takes Aim at Comprehensive Mouse Knockout Program

Dennis Normile
Science 30 June 2006: 1864.
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HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION SOCIETY MEETING: Long-Ago Peoples May Have Been Long in the Tooth

Constance Holden
Science 30 June 2006: 1867.
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HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION SOCIETY MEETING: An Evolutionary Squeeze on Brain Size

Constance Holden
Science 30 June 2006: 1867.
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CELL BIOLOGY: Podosomes and Invadopodia Help Mobile Cells Step Lively

Jean Marx
Science 30 June 2006: 1868-1869.
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WATER QUALITY: High Court Asks Army Corps to Measure Value of Wetlands

Erik Stokstad
Science 30 June 2006: 1870.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 30 June 2006: 1872.
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 Testing Climate Reconstructions

Stefan Rahmstorf;, Haus von Storch, Eduardo Zorita, Julie Jones, Fidel Gonzalez-Rouco, and Simon Tett
Science 30 June 2006: 1872-1873.
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 Team Science and the NIBIB

Roderic I. Pettigrew
Science 30 June 2006: 1873.
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 Funding for Young Investigators at Whitaker

Robert Nerem and Frank Yin
Science 30 June 2006: 1873-1874.
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 Caspase-10 in Mouse or Not?

Reiner U. Jänicke, Dennis Sohn, Gudrun Totzke, and Klaus Schulze-Osthoff
Science 30 June 2006: 1874.
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 Role of iNOS in Human Host Defense

Carl Nathan;, Philip Liu, John S. Adams, and Robert L. Modlin
Science 30 June 2006: 1874-1875.
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Books et al.

POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY: The Perils of Prognostication

John T. Jost
Science 30 June 2006: 1876-1877.
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SOCIOLOGY: Fishing Rights and Race Relations

Nicholas J. G. Winter
Science 30 June 2006: 1877-1878.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE: Stoking the Voters' Passions

James N. Druckman
Science 30 June 2006: 1878-1879.
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Books Received

Science 30 June 2006: 1879.
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Education Forum

COMMUNITY COLLABORATIONS: Collaborative Ecological Restoration

Warren Gold, Kern Ewing, John Banks, Martha Groom, Tom Hinckley, David Secord, and Daniela Shebitz
Science 30 June 2006: 1880-1881.
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Perspectives

CELL SIGNALING: H₂O₂, a Necessary Evil for Cell Signaling

Sue Goo Rhee
Science 30 June 2006: 1882-1883.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE: Seeking Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Semiconductors

Koji Ando
Science 30 June 2006: 1883-1885.
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CHEMISTRY: Targeting Specific C-H Bonds for Oxidation

Rubén Mas-Ballesté and Lawrence Que, Jr.
Science 30 June 2006: 1885-1886.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Enhanced: Accurate RNA Siting and Splicing Gets Help from a DEK-Hand

Tracy L. Kress and Christine Guthrie
Science 30 June 2006: 1886-1887.
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APPLIED PHYSICS: The Neutron Spin-Echo Technique at Full Strength

Joël Mesot
Science 30 June 2006: 1888-1889.
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ECOLOGY: Climate Change and Crop Yields: Beyond Cassandra

David Schimel
Science 30 June 2006: 1889-1890.
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Association Affairs

AAAS News and Notes

Science 30 June 2006: 1891-1892.
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Brevia

Bacterial Diversity in Tree Canopies of the Atlantic Forest

M. R. Lambais, D. E. Crowley, J. C. Cury, R. C. Büll, and R. R. Rodrigues
Science 30 June 2006: 1917.
The leaves of Brazilian coastal forest trees can harbor hundreds of bacterial species, most of them newly described, with a different subset on each species of tree. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO₂ Concentrations

Stephen P. Long, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Andrew D. B. Leakey, Josef Nösberger, and Donald R. Ort
Science 30 June 2006: 1918-1921.
In open-field experiments testing how increased carbon dioxide improves crop yields, the values were half those of previous experiments conducted in enclosures. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Frictional Afterslip Following the 2005 Nias-Simeulue Earthquake, Sumatra

Ya-Ju Hsu, Mark Simons, Jean-Philippe Avouac, John Galetzka, Kerry Sieh, Mohamed Chlieh, Danny Natawidjaja, Linette Prawirodirdjo, and Yehuda Bock
Science 30 June 2006: 1921-1926.
Since the huge March 2005 earthquake, slip along the plate boundary south of Sumatra is continuing at above-average rates and causing aftershocks. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Spin-Wave Lifetimes Throughout the Brillouin Zone

S. P. Bayrakci, T. Keller, K. Habicht, and B. Keimer
Science 30 June 2006: 1926-1929.
A new high-resolution neutron-scattering technique reveals the fundamental excitations in magnetic systems and shows unexpected effects at very low temperatures. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Surface and Deep Ocean Interactions During the Cold Climate Event 8200 Years Ago

Christopher R. W. Ellison, Mark R. Chapman, and Ian R. Hall
Science 30 June 2006: 1929-1932.
The most prominent cold period during the Holocene, 8200 years ago, spanned several hundred years and was caused by an influx of melt water into the North Atlantic. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Phase Modifiers Promote Efficient Production of Hydroxymethylfurfural from Fructose

Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Juben N. Chheda, and James A. Dumesic
Science 30 June 2006: 1933-1937.
A two-phase solvent efficiently converts fructose to a plastic precursor, providing a possible replacement for petroleum-based plastics. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Octahedral Coordination Complex of Iron(VI)

John F. Berry, Eckhard Bill, Eberhard Bothe, Serena DeBeer George, Bernd Mienert, Frank Neese, and Karl Wieghardt
Science 30 June 2006: 1937-1941.
Published online 1 June 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1128506] (in Science Express Reports)
A complex in which iron is in the rare +6 oxidation state and triple bonded to nitrogen is stable to 77 kelvin and can serve as a powerful oxidant upon warming. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Molecular Recognition in the Selective Oxygenation of Saturated C-H Bonds by a Dimanganese Catalyst

Siddhartha Das, Christopher D. Incarvito, Robert H. Crabtree, and Gary W. Brudvig
Science 30 June 2006: 1941-1943.
A small molecular catalyst aligns a substrate through hydrogen bonding to oxidize a distant site selectively, a strategy commonly seen in much larger enzymes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Competitive Cost of Antibiotic Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Sebastien Gagneux, Clara Davis Long, Peter M. Small, Tran Van, Gary K. Schoolnik, and Brendan J. M. Bohannan
Science 30 June 2006: 1944-1946.
Although the tuberculosis bacterium incurs fitness costs when it acquires resistance to antibiotics, the more prevalent strains in humans exhibit superior compensation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Lhx2 Maintains Stem Cell Character in Hair Follicles

Horace Rhee, Lisa Polak, and Elaine Fuchs
Science 30 June 2006: 1946-1949.
A newly described transcription factor maintains the stem cells in the hair follicle in an undifferentiated state, preventing premature differentiation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Structural Basis of RNA-Dependent Recruitment of Glutamine to the Genetic Code

Hiroyuki Oshikane, Kelly Sheppard, Shuya Fukai, Yuko Nakamura, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Tomoyuki Numata, R. Lynn Sherrer, Liang Feng, Emmanuelle Schmitt, Michel Panvert, Sylvain Blanquet, Yves Mechulam, Dieter Söll, and Osamu Nureki
Science 30 June 2006: 1950-1954.
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Ammonia Channel Couples Glutaminase with Transamidase Reactions in GatCAB

Akiyoshi Nakamura, Min Yao, Sarin Chimnaronk, Naoki Sakai, and Isao Tanaka
Science 30 June 2006: 1954-1958.
Bacteria and archaea use multimeric enzyme complexes to covert glutamate bound to transfer RNA to glutamine before it is added to growing peptide chains. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Rapid Advance of Spring Arrival Dates in Long-Distance Migratory Birds

Niclas Jonzén, Andreas Lindén, Torbjørn Ergon, Endre Knudsen, Jon Olav Vik, Diego Rubolini, Dario Piacentini, Christian Brinch, Fernando Spina, Lennart Karlsson, Martin Stervander, Arne Andersson, Jonas Waldenström, Aleksi Lehikoinen, Erik Edvardsen, Rune Solvang, and Nils Chr. Stenseth
Science 30 June 2006: 1959-1961.
Birds that migrate long distances to Europe from Africa are arriving earlier in the spring, perhaps as an evolutionary response to climate change. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supplemental Online Material »|  

Intron Removal Requires Proofreading of U2AF/3' Splice Site Recognition by DEK

Luis Miguel Mendes Soares, Katia Zanier, Cameron Mackereth, Michael Sattler, and Juan Valcárcel
Science 30 June 2006: 1961-1965.
A chromatin- and RNA-associated protein that is frequently mutated in leukemias ensures accurate recognition of splice sites by splicing factors. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Ant Odometer: Stepping on Stilts and Stumps

Matthias Wittlinger, Rüdiger Wehner, and Harald Wolf
Science 30 June 2006: 1965-1967.
An experiment in which their legs were shortened or lengthened shows that desert ants measure distance on foraging trips by counting their steps. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Social Modulation of Pain as Evidence for Empathy in Mice

Dale J. Langford, Sara E. Crager, Zarrar Shehzad, Shad B. Smith, Susana G. Sotocinal, Jeremy S. Levenstadt, Mona Lisa Chanda, Daniel J. Levitin, and Jeffrey S. Mogil
Science 30 June 2006: 1967-1970.
Mice show empathy-like behavior, exhibiting enhanced pain sensitivity when they see a familiar mouse experience pain but not when the other mouse is a stranger. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites"

Albert J. Ammerman, Ron Pinhasi, and Eszter Bánffy
Science 30 June 2006: 1875.
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Response to Comment on "Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites"

Joachim Burger, Detlef Gronenborn, Peter Forster, Shuichi Matsumura, Barbara Bramanti, and Wolfgang Haak
Science 30 June 2006: 1875.
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