This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Aid to Enhance Africa's Skills

David A. King
Science 20 October 2006: 385.
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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

EPIDEMIOLOGY: Iraqi Death Estimates Called Too High; Methods Faulted

John Bohannon
Science 20 October 2006: 396-397.
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ECOLOGY: Report Warns of Looming Pollination Crisis in North America

Constance Holden
Science 20 October 2006: 397.
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EUROPEAN FACILITIES: Panel Draws Up Shopping List

Daniel Clery
Science 20 October 2006: 399.
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HIGHER EDUCATION: A German Ivy League Takes Shape

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 October 2006: 400.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE: Pollute the Planet for Climate's Sake?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 20 October 2006: 401-403.
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PHYSICS: Voilà! Cloak of Invisibility Unveiled

Adrian Cho
Science 20 October 2006: 403.
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ECOLOGY: A Rescue Effort for Tsunami-Ravaged Mangrove Forests

Richard Stone
Science 20 October 2006: 404.
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GENETICS: Gene Offers Insight Into Macular Degeneration

Jean Marx
Science 20 October 2006: 405.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: MEDLINE Supplements Must List Corporate Ties

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 20 October 2006: 405.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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Newsmakers

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News Focus

GEOPHYSICS: The Day the Land Tipped Over

Richard Stone
Science 20 October 2006: 406-409.
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GEOPHYSICS: Facing a Tsunami With No Place to Run

Richard Stone
Science 20 October 2006: 408-409.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION: Early Look at Exploding Supernova Spotlights Deadly Stellar Tango

Tom Siegfried
Science 20 October 2006: 411.
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AAS HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICS DIVISION: Snapshots From The Meeting

Tom Siegfried
Science 20 October 2006: 411.
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HELAMAN FERGUSON PROFILE: Carving His Own Unique Niche, in Symbols and Stone

Katherine Unger
Science 20 October 2006: 412-413.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 HIV Testing and Individual Rights

Edward Mills, Stuart Rennie;, Zunyou Wu, Xinhua Sun, Sheena G. Sullivan, and Roger Detels
Science 20 October 2006: 417-419.
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 Operational Hurricane Intensity Forecasting

Howard R. Baum and Frank Fendell
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 The Danger of Mathematical Models

Keith Backman
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 The "Source" of Drug-Resistant TB Outbreaks

Paul D. van Helden, Tommie Victor, and Robin M. Warren
Science 20 October 2006: 419-420.
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Books et al.

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Biotechnology and the Human Soul

Michael A. Goldman
Science 20 October 2006: 423.
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MOVIES: TRANSPORTATION: A Battery-Powered Car Run Down

David A. Kirsch
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 Browsing

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Books Received

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Policy Forum

POPULATION: The Demography of Growing European Identity

Wolfgang Lutz, Sylvia Kritzinger, and Vegard Skirbekk
Science 20 October 2006: 425.
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Perspectives

PHYSICS: Jump-Starting Quantum Error Correction with Entanglement

Daniel Gottesman
Science 20 October 2006: 427-428.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: Protein Synthesis and Oncogenesis Meet Again

Nahum Sonenberg and Arnim Pause
Science 20 October 2006: 428-429.
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ASTRONOMY: Cosmic Rays Track the Rotation of the Milky Way

Marc Duldig
Science 20 October 2006: 429-430.
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CHEMISTRY: The Future of Organic Synthesis

Peter Kündig
Science 20 October 2006: 430-431.
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CHEMISTRY: Enhanced: Toward Molecular Imaging with Xenon MRI

Bastiaan Driehuys
Science 20 October 2006: 432-433.
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SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION: Prelude to an Anniversary for the RAS Oncogene

Julian Downward
Science 20 October 2006: 433-434.
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Association Affairs

AAAS 2007 Annual Meeting Program

Science 20 October 2006: 484-492.
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Brevia

Exposure to Scientific Theories Affects Women's Math Performance

Ilan Dar-Nimrod and Steven J. Heine
Science 20 October 2006: 435.
Ascribing gender differences in performance on math tests to genetics adversely affects girls' scores on subsequent tests, but ascribing such differences to experience does not. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Research Articles

Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement

Todd Brun, Igor Devetak, and Min-Hsiu Hsieh
Science 20 October 2006: 436-439.
Published online 28 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131563] (in Science Express Research Articles)
Entanglement-assisted quantum error correction simplifies the theory of stabilizer codes, allowing a new class of efficient codes to protect quantum information from decoherence. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Anisotropy and Corotation of Galactic Cosmic Rays

M. Amenomori, S. Ayabe, X. J. Bi, D. Chen, S. W. Cui, Danzengluobu, L. K. Ding, X. H. Ding, C. F. Feng, Zhaoyang Feng, Z. Y. Feng, X. Y. Gao, Q. X. Geng, H. W. Guo, H. H. He, M. He, K. Hibino, N. Hotta, Haibing Hu, H. B. Hu, J. Huang, Q. Huang, H. Y. Jia, F. Kajino, K. Kasahara, Y. Katayose, C. Kato, K. Kawata, Labaciren, G. M. Le, A. F. Li, J. Y. Li, Y.-Q. Lou, H. Lu, S. L. Lu, X. R. Meng, K. Mizutani, J. Mu, K. Munakata, A. Nagai, H. Nanjo, M. Nishizawa, M. Ohnishi, I. Ohta, H. Onuma, T. Ouchi, S. Ozawa, J. R. Ren, T. Saito, T. Y. Saito, M. Sakata, T. K. Sako, T. Sasaki, M. Shibata, A. Shiomi, T. Shirai, H. Sugimoto, M. Takita, Y. H. Tan, N. Tateyama, S. Torii, H. Tsuchiya, S. Udo, B. Wang, H. Wang, X. Wang, Y. G. Wang, H. R. Wu, L. Xue, Y. Yamamoto, C. T. Yan, X. C. Yang, S. Yasue, Z. H. Ye, G. C. Yu, A. F. Yuan, T. Yuda, H. M. Zhang, J. L. Zhang, N. J. Zhang, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang, Yi Zhang, Zhaxisangzhu, X. X. Zhou (The Tibet AS Collaboration)
Science 20 October 2006: 439-443.
Anisotropies in the distribution of cosmic rays in the sky, including an excess from a spiral arm of the Milky Way, show that cosmic rays corotate with the Galaxy. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Reports

Isolated Single-Cycle Attosecond Pulses

G. Sansone, E. Benedetti, F. Calegari, C. Vozzi, L. Avaldi, R. Flammini, L. Poletto, P. Villoresi, C. Altucci, R. Velotta, S. Stagira, S. De Silvestri, and M. Nisoli
Science 20 October 2006: 443-446.
Single-cycle 130-attosecond light pulses, useful for probing electron dynamics, can be generated by modulating the polarization state of 5-femtosecond pulses in argon. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Molecular Imaging Using a Targeted Magnetic Resonance Hyperpolarized Biosensor

Leif Schröder, Thomas J. Lowery, Christian Hilty, David E. Wemmer, and Alexander Pines
Science 20 October 2006: 446-449.
Magnetic resonance images of a single biomolecule can be obtained from the amplified signal of a bound xenon probe that exchanges with surrounding bulk xenon. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Wetland Sedimentation from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

R. Eugene Turner, Joseph J. Baustian, Erick M. Swenson, and Jennifer S. Spicer
Science 20 October 2006: 449-452.
Published online 21 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1129116] (in Science Express Reports)
Hurricanes, not flood deposits, may supply most of the inorganic sediments that sustain coastal salt marshes near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Combined Mitigation/Geoengineering Approach to Climate Stabilization

T. M. L. Wigley
Science 20 October 2006: 452-454.
Published online 14 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1131728] (in Science Express Reports)
Global warming could be mitigated by the injection of sulfate aerosol precursors into the atmosphere, thus increasing cloudiness. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Dendritic Cell Stimulation by Mycobacterial Hsp70 Is Mediated Through CCR5

R. Andres Floto, Paul A. MacAry, Jessica M. Boname, Tan Suet Mien, Beate Kampmann, James R. Hair, Oh Seen Huey, Edith N. G. Houben, Jean Pieters, Cheryl Day, Wulf Oehlmann, Mahavir Singh, Kenneth G. C. Smith, and Paul J. Lehner
Science 20 October 2006: 454-458.
The protein through which HIV infects immune cells normally senses a heat shock protein from mycobacteria to initiate an antibacterial response. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Direct Demonstration of an Adaptive Constraint

Stephen P. Miller, Mark Lunzer, and Antony M. Dean
Science 20 October 2006: 458-461.
The intrinsic properties of a leucine biosynthetic enzyme can prevent the test-tube evolution of seemingly adaptive traits—increased catalysis rate, for example. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Essential Role for LEDGF/p75 in HIV Integration

Manuel Llano, Dyana T. Saenz, Anne Meehan, Phonphimon Wongthida, Mary Peretz, William H. Walker, Wulin Teo, and Eric M. Poeschla
Science 20 October 2006: 461-464.
Published online 7 September 2006 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1132319] (in Science Express Reports)
A cellular factor is required for HIV integration and represents a potential drug target. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Dynamic Nuclear Actin Assembly by Arp2/3 Complex and a Baculovirus WASP-Like Protein

Erin D. Goley, Taro Ohkawa, Joel Mancuso, Jeffrey B. Woodruff, Joseph A. D'Alessio, W. Zacheus Cande, Loy E. Volkman, and Matthew D. Welch
Science 20 October 2006: 464-467.
A virus triggers actin assembly in the nucleus of infected cells in order to begin its own replication. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

S6K1- and ßTRCP-Mediated Degradation of PDCD4 Promotes Protein Translation and Cell Growth

N. Valerio Dorrello, Angelo Peschiaroli, Daniele Guardavaccaro, Nancy H. Colburn, Nicholas E. Sherman, and Michele Pagano
Science 20 October 2006: 467-471.
A protein identified as a tumor suppressor controls overall protein synthesis rates through a translation initiation factor, promoting cell proliferation and growth. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Functional Delivery of a Cytosolic tRNA into Mutant Mitochondria of Human Cells

Bidesh Mahata, Saikat Mukherjee, Sumita Mishra, Arun Bandyopadhyay, and Samit Adhya
Science 20 October 2006: 471-474.
Proteins from a parasite can restore function of human cells with defective mitochondria, suggesting a possible therapeutic approach for certain genetic muscle diseases. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Common Kibra Alleles Are Associated with Human Memory Performance

Andreas Papassotiropoulos, Dietrich A. Stephan, Matthew J. Huentelman, Frederic J. Hoerndli, David W. Craig, John V. Pearson, Kim-Dung Huynh, Fabienne Brunner, Jason Corneveaux, David Osborne, M. Axel Wollmer, Amanda Aerni, Daniel Coluccia, Jürgen Hänggi, Christian R. A. Mondadori, Andreas Buchmann, Eric M. Reiman, Richard J. Caselli, Katharina Henke, and Dominique J.-F. de Quervain
Science 20 October 2006: 475-478.
Correlation of performance on a memory task with polymorphisms in the whole human genome points to a neuronal protein as one possible determinant of human memory. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Long-Term Sustainability of a High-Energy, Low-Diversity Crustal Biome

Li-Hung Lin, Pei-Ling Wang, Douglas Rumble, Johanna Lippmann-Pipke, Erik Boice, Lisa M. Pratt, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Eoin L. Brodie, Terry C. Hazen, Gary L. Andersen, Todd Z. DeSantis, Duane P. Moser, Dave Kershaw, and T. C. Onstott
Science 20 October 2006: 479-482.
Nearly 3 kilometers deep in Earth's crust, a simple bacterial community has survived for millions of years on geological sources of sulfate and hydrogen. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Technical Comments

Comment on "Stability via Asynchrony in Drosophila Metapopulations with Low Migration Rates"

Esa Ranta and Veijo Kaitala
Science 20 October 2006: 420.
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Response to Comment on "Stability via Asynchrony in Drosophila Metapopulations with Low Migration Rates"

Sutirth Dey and Amitabh Joshi
Science 20 October 2006: 420.
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