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This Week in Science
Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 14 September 2007: 1465.
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Anita K. Jones
Science 14 September 2007: 1469.
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Editors' Choice
Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 14 September 2007: 1471.
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Science 14 September 2007: 1567.
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Science 14 September 2007: 1567.
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News of the Week

Andrew Lawler
Science 14 September 2007: 1480-1481.
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 14 September 2007: 1481.
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Jon Cohen
Science 14 September 2007: 1483.
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Gretchen Vogel
Science 14 September 2007: 1484.
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Martin Enserink
Science 14 September 2007: 1485.
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Martin Enserink
Science 14 September 2007: 1486.
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Jennifer Couzin
Science 14 September 2007: 1487.
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ScienceScope
Science 14 September 2007: 1483.
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Random Samples
Science 14 September 2007: 1477.
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Newsmakers
Science 14 September 2007: 1479.
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News Focus

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 14 September 2007: 1488-1490.
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Richard Stone
Science 14 September 2007: 1491.
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Dennis Normile
Science 14 September 2007: 1493.
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Dennis Normile
Science 14 September 2007: 1494-1495.
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The Gonzo Scientist

John Bohannon
Science 14 September 2007: 1495.
"Summer camps" focused on science and technology themes have been sprouting everywhere in recent years. Science Contributing Correspondent John Bohannon provides an intimate look at what happens when grownups go back to camp. Full Text »   Audio Slideshow »  

Letters

Science 14 September 2007: 1496.
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Jose M. Valderas;, R. Alexander Bentley;, Ralf Buckley;, K. Brad; Wray;, Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. Jones, and Brian Uzzi
Science 14 September 2007: 1496-1498.
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Rick MacPherson
Science 14 September 2007: 1498-1500.
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Books et al.

Alan C. Love
Science 14 September 2007: 1502-1503.
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John Bohannon
Science 14 September 2007: 1503.
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Science 14 September 2007: 1503.
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Policy Forum

Michael Oppenheimer, Brian C. O'Neill, Mort Webster, and Shardul Agrawala
Science 14 September 2007: 1505-1506.
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Perspectives

Dennis R. Burton and Ian A. Wilson
Science 14 September 2007: 1507-1508.
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Bo Thamdrup
Science 14 September 2007: 1508-1509.
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V. S. Subrahmanian
Science 14 September 2007: 1509-1510.
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Marcel M. M. Kuypers
Science 14 September 2007: 1510-1511.
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Volker Bromm
Science 14 September 2007: 1511-1512.
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Review

Jianguo Liu, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marina Alberti, Carl Folke, Emilio Moran, Alice N. Pell, Peter Deadman, Timothy Kratz, Jane Lubchenco, Elinor Ostrom, Zhiyun Ouyang, William Provencher, Charles L. Redman, Stephen H. Schneider, and William W. Taylor
Science 14 September 2007: 1513-1516.
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Brevia

Tomoyuki Okutsu, Shinya Shikina, Megumi Kanno, Yutaka Takeuchi, and Goro Yoshizaki
Science 14 September 2007: 1517.
Transplantation of trout spermatogonia to newborn sterile salmon results in male and female adults that produce trout offspring, a method that may help revive extinct species. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  

Research Articles

Jonathan Schaeffer, Neil Burch, Yngvi Björnsson, Akihiro Kishimoto, Martin Müller, Robert Lake, Paul Lu, and Steve Sutphen
Science 14 September 2007: 1518-1522.
Published online 19 July 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1144079] (in Science Express Research Articles)
A series of up to 200 computers running since 1989 has considered the 5 × 1020 possible positions for checkers, showing that perfect play always leads to a draw. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Shen-Ying Zhang, Emmanuelle Jouanguy, Sophie Ugolini, Asma Smahi, Gaëlle Elain, Pedro Romero, David Segal, Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu, Lazaro Lorenzo, Anne Puel, Capucine Picard, Ariane Chapgier, Sabine Plancoulaine, Matthias Titeux, Céline Cognet, Horst von Bernuth, Cheng-Lung Ku, Armanda Casrouge, Xin-Xin Zhang, Luis Barreiro, Joshua Leonard, Claire Hamilton, Pierre Lebon, Bénédicte Héron, Louis Vallée, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Alain Hovnanian, Flore Rozenberg, Eric Vivier, Frédéric Geissmann, Marc Tardieu, Laurent Abel, and Jean-Laurent Casanova
Science 14 September 2007: 1522-1527.
An innate immune receptor in humans selectively protects against severe infection of the central nervous system by herpes simplex virus 1. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  

Reports

Liang Gao and Tom Theuns
Science 14 September 2007: 1527-1530.
In a model of the early universe with warm dark matter, the first stars form in long filaments, not clumps; thus, the star distribution may reveal the dark-matter content. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
F. Miao, S. Wijeratne, Y. Zhang, U. C. Coskun, W. Bao, and C. N. Lau
Science 14 September 2007: 1530-1533.
Graphene acts as a quantum billiard table, the edges of which scatter the wave functions of electrons and holes, producing interference effects that depend on the sheet geometry. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Pascal Philippot, Mark Van Zuilen, Kevin Lepot, Christophe Thomazo, James Farquhar, and Martin J. Van Kranendonk
Science 14 September 2007: 1534-1537.
Data from multiple sulfur isotopes imply that 3.5-billion-year-old microbes on Earth were not sulfate reducers, as had been suspected, but instead metabolized elemental sulfur. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
S. Krause, L. Berbil-Bautista, G. Herzog, M. Bode, and R. Wiesendanger
Science 14 September 2007: 1537-1540.
The spin-polarized current from a tip of a scanning tunneling microscope can switch, manipulate, and read out the magnetization in small islands of about 100 iron atoms. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
May Lim, Richard Metzler, and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Science 14 September 2007: 1540-1544.
A model based on principles of phase-separation predicts regions of violence when applied to the distribution of ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia and India. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Eric A. Ortlund, Jamie T. Bridgham, Matthew R. Redinbo, and Joseph W. Thornton
Science 14 September 2007: 1544-1548.
Published online 16 August 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1142819] (in Science Express Reports)
The structure of a 450-million-year-old corticoid receptor, resurrected computationally and biochemically, suggests how modern hormone receptors evolved. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Carlos J. Rosado, Ashley M. Buckle, Ruby H. P. Law, Rebecca E. Butcher, Wan-Ting Kan, Catherina H. Bird, Kheng Ung, Kylie A. Browne, Katherine Baran, Tanya A. Bashtannyk-Puhalovich, Noel G. Faux, Wilson Wong, Corrine J. Porter, Robert N. Pike, Andrew M. Ellisdon, Mary C. Pearce, Stephen P. Bottomley, Jonas Emsley, A. Ian Smith, Jamie Rossjohn, Elizabeth L. Hartland, Ilia Voskoboinik, Joseph A. Trapani, Phillip I. Bird, Michelle A. Dunstone, and James C. Whisstock
Science 14 September 2007: 1548-1551.
Published online 23 August 2007 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1144706] (in Science Express Reports)
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Michael A. Hadders, Dennis X. Beringer, and Piet Gros
Science 14 September 2007: 1552-1554.
A domain structure shared by a mammalian defense protein and a bacterial toxic protein suggests that the immune proteins disrupt membranes by forming pores. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Marijn van der Neut Kolfschoten, Janine Schuurman, Mario Losen, Wim K. Bleeker, Pilar Martínez-Martínez, Ellen Vermeulen, Tamara H. den Bleker, Luus Wiegman, Tom Vink, Lucien A. Aarden, Marc H. De Baets, Jan G.J. van de Winkel, Rob C. Aalberse, and Paul W. H. I. Parren
Science 14 September 2007: 1554-1557.
One of the two arms of a type of antibody is often replaced, allowing binding to two different antigens and reducing cross-linking and immune responses. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Christopher D. Brown, David S. Johnson, and Arend Sidow
Science 14 September 2007: 1557-1560.
The regulatory regions of simultaneously expressed muscle genes are unexpectedly diverse within a sea squirt species, yet each is evolutionarily conserved among species. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Richard A. Lankau and Sharon Y. Strauss
Science 14 September 2007: 1561-1563.
In black mustard, allelochemicals, which inhibit the growth of other species, are more adaptive in diverse communities and also influence community composition. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  
Claude P. Lechene, Yvette Luyten, Gregory McMahon, and Daniel L. Distel
Science 14 September 2007: 1563-1566.
Mapping of a rare isotope of nitrogen shows that symbiotic bacteria on the gills of shipworms fix nitrogen and transfer it to nitrogen-poor tissues of the host. Abstract »   Full Text »   PDF »   Supporting Online Material »  

Technical Comments

William F. Forrest and Guy Cavet
Science 14 September 2007: 1500.
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Gad Getz, Holger Höfling, Jill P. Mesirov, Todd R. Golub, Matthew Meyerson, Robert Tibshirani, and Eric S. Lander
Science 14 September 2007: 1500.
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Alan F. Rubin and Phil Green
Science 14 September 2007: 1500.
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Giovanni Parmigiani, Jimmy Lin, Simina M. Boca, Tobias Sjöblom, Siân Jones, Laura D. Wood, D. Williams Parsons, Thomas Barber, Phillip Buckhaults, Sanford D. Markowitz, Ben Ho Park, Kurtis E. Bachman, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Victor E. Velculescu
Science 14 September 2007: 1500.
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From the AAAS Office of Publishing and Member Services

Julie Clayton
Science 14 September 2007: 1569-1573.
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