This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Women in Science in Germany

Edelgard Bulmahn
Science 10 December 1999: 2081.
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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

BIOMEDICINE:
NIH Sets Rules for Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Gretchen Vogel
Science 10 December 1999: 2050-2051.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Yet Another Loss to the Martian Gremlin

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 December 1999: 2051.
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TISSUE ENGINEERING:
Growing Human Corneas in the Lab

Dan Ferber
Science 10 December 1999: 2051-2053.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Shaking Up a Nursery of Giant Planets

Richard A. Kerr
Science 10 December 1999: 2054.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Proto-Polynesians Quickly Settled Pacific

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 10 December 1999: 2054-2056.
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SCIENCE EDUCATION:
Science Fairs Pump Up the Rewards of Talent

Laura Helmuth
Science 10 December 1999: 2056.
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TECHNOLOGY:
Nanotubes Generate Full-Color Displays

Dennis Normile
Science 10 December 1999: 2056-2057.
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HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH:
German Effort Stuck in Minor League

Michael Hagmann
Science 10 December 1999: 2057-2059.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Z Mimics X-rays From Neutron Star

Andrew Watson
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASTROPHYSICS:
Space Becomes a Physics Lab

Robert Irion
Science 10 December 1999: 2060-2062.
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PHYSICS:
Conjuring a Solitary Sound Wave

Alexander Hellemans
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SWEDEN:
Drug Research Endures the Pains of Globalization

Joanna Rose and Annika Nilsson
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EARTH SCIENCE:
Terra Launch Spotlights NASA Observing System

Andrew Lawler
Science 10 December 1999: 2064-2065.
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EUROPEAN UNION:
Research Chief Wants to Make Science Matter

Robert Koenig
Science 10 December 1999: 2065-2067.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
Biocomplexity Blooms in NSF's Research Garden

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 10 December 1999: 2068-2069.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE:
NSF's New Czar for Environment

Jeffrey Mervis
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Science in India

Ashok S. Ganguly;, Shailendra Joshi;, C. N. R. Rao;, and Rama S. Singh
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 Too Mammoth an Undertaking

Frank Tschentscher
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 NSF Urban Systemic Initiatives

Stan Metzenberg;, Rita R. Colwell, and Eamon M. Kelly
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ECOLOGY:
How the Biosphere is Organized

Robert May
Science 10 December 1999: 2091.
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Policy Forum

GENETICS:
Ethical Considerations in Synthesizing a Minimal Genome

Mildred K. Cho, David Magnus, Arthur L. Caplan, Daniel McGee, and Ethics of Genomics Group
Science 10 December 1999: 2087-2090.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
Tropical Forest Synergies

Gary Hartshorn and Nora Bynum
Science 10 December 1999: 2093-2094.
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ANTARCTIC BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
Enhanced: Icy Life on a Hidden Lake

Warwick F. Vincent
Science 10 December 1999: 2094-2095.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Tweezers for the Nanotool Kit

Chad A. Mirkin
Science 10 December 1999: 2095-2096.
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CANCER:
Structural Assets of a Tumor Suppressor

Nicholas K. Tonks and Michael P. Myers
Science 10 December 1999: 2096-2097.
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Visions

A Day in the World Science Alliance

Jill Trewhella and Don M. Parkin
Science 10 December 1999: 2104-2106.
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Address to the 40th Annual Convention of the U.N.A.A.S.

Paul K. Wolber
Science 10 December 1999: 2106-2108.
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Dr. Cool

Daniel Robin Booth
Science 10 December 1999: 2109-2110.
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Association Affairs

 Science Through the Looking Glass: Winning the Battles But Losing the War?

M. R. C. Greenwood and Karen Kovacs North
Science 10 December 1999: 2072-2078.
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Review

Chemokines and Cell Migration in Secondary Lymphoid Organs

Jason G. Cyster
Science 10 December 1999: 2098-2102.
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Research Articles

Implication of Tubby Proteins as Transcription Factors by Structure-Based Functional Analysis

Titus J. Boggon, Wei-Song Shan, Sandro Santagata, Samuel C. Myers, and Lawrence Shapiro
Science 10 December 1999: 2119-2125.
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Biological and Chemical Response of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean to the 1997-98 El Niño

F. P. Chavez, P. G. Strutton, G. E. Friederich, R. A. Feely, G. C. Feldman, D. G. Foley, and M. J. McPhaden
Science 10 December 1999: 2126-2131.
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Reports

Constraints on Slow Earthquake Dynamics from a Swarm in Central Italy

Luca Crescentini, Antonella Amoruso, and Roberto Scarpa
Science 10 December 1999: 2132-2134.
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Possible Ancient Oceans on Mars: Evidence from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter Data

James W. Head, III, Harald Hiesinger, Mikhail A. Ivanov, Mikhail A. Kreslavsky, Stephen Pratt, and Bradley J. Thomson
Science 10 December 1999: 2134-2137.
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More Than 200 Meters of Lake Ice Above Subglacial Lake Vostok, Antarctica

J. Jouzel, J. R. Petit, R. Souchez, N. I. Barkov, V. Ya. Lipenkov, D. Raynaud, M. Stievenard, N. I. Vassiliev, V. Verbeke, and F. Vimeux
Science 10 December 1999: 2138-2141.
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Geomicrobiology of Subglacial Ice Above Lake Vostok, Antarctica

John C. Priscu, Edward E. Adams, W. Berry Lyons, Mary A. Voytek, David W. Mogk, Robert L. Brown, Christopher P. McKay, Cristina D. Takacs, Kathy A. Welch, Craig F. Wolf, Julie D. Kirshtein, and Recep Avci
Science 10 December 1999: 2141-2144.
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Microorganisms in the Accreted Ice of Lake Vostok, Antarctica

D. M. Karl, D. F. Bird, K. Björkman, T. Houlihan, R. Shackelford, and L. Tupas
Science 10 December 1999: 2144-2147.
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Nanotube Nanotweezers

Philip Kim and Charles M. Lieber
Science 10 December 1999: 2148-2150.
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Three-Dimensional Structures of the TAF_II-Containing Complexes TFIID and TFTC

Marjorie Brand, Claire Leurent, Véronique Mallouh, Làszlò Tora, and Patrick Schultz
Science 10 December 1999: 2151-2153.
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Three-Dimensional Structure of the Human TFIID-IIA-IIB Complex

Frank Andel, III, Andreas G. Ladurner, Carla Inouye, Robert Tjian, and Eva Nogales
Science 10 December 1999: 2153-2156.
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Control of Early Viral and Bacterial Distribution and Disease by Natural Antibodies

Adrian F. Ochsenbein, Thomas Fehr, Claudia Lutz, Mark Suter, Frank Brombacher, Hans Hengartner, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel
Science 10 December 1999: 2156-2159.
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The Role of CCR7 in T_H1 and T_H2 Cell Localization and Delivery of B Cell Help in Vivo

David A. Randolph, Guangming Huang, Cynthia J. L. Carruthers, Lindsay E. Bromley, and David D. Chaplin
Science 10 December 1999: 2159-2162.
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Impaired Immunoproteasome Assembly and Immune Responses in PA28^/ Mice

Tobias Preckel, Wai-Ping Fung-Leung, Zeling Cai, Antonella Vitiello, Luisa Salter-Cid, Ola Winqvist, Tom G. Wolfe, Matthias Von Herrath, Ana Angulo, Peter Ghazal, Jiing-Dwan Lee, Anne M. Fourie, Ying Wu, Jesse Pang, Karen Ngo, Per A. Peterson, Klaus Früh, and Young Yang
Science 10 December 1999: 2162-2165.
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Global Transposon Mutagenesis and a Minimal Mycoplasma Genome

Clyde A. Hutchison, III, Scott N. Peterson, Steven R. Gill, Robin T. Cline, Owen White, Claire M. Fraser, Hamilton O. Smith, and J. Craig Venter
Science 10 December 1999: 2165-2169.
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Functional Human Corneal Equivalents Constructed from Cell Lines

May Griffith, Rosemarie Osborne, Rejean Munger, Xiaojuan Xiong, Charles J. Doillon, Noelani L. C. Laycock, Malik Hakim, Ying Song, and Mitchell A. Watsky
Science 10 December 1999: 2169-2172.
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Mouse Models of Tumor Development in Neurofibromatosis Type 1 

Karen Cichowski, T. Shane Shih, Earlene Schmitt, Sabrina Santiago, Karlyne Reilly, Margaret E. McLaughlin, Roderick T. Bronson, and Tyler Jacks
Science 10 December 1999: 2172-2176.
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Mouse Tumor Model for Neurofibromatosis Type 1 

Kristine S. Vogel, Laura J. Klesse, Susana Velasco-Miguel, Kimberly Meyers, Elizabeth J. Rushing, and Luis F. Parada
Science 10 December 1999: 2176-2179.
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Microarray Analysis of Drosophila Development During Metamorphosis

Kevin P. White, Scott A. Rifkin, Patrick Hurban, and David S. Hogness
Science 10 December 1999: 2179-2184.
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Impact of El Niño and Logging on Canopy Tree Recruitment in Borneo

L. M. Curran, I. Caniago, G. D. Paoli, D. Astianti, M. Kusneti, M. Leighton, C. E. Nirarita, and H. Haeruman
Science 10 December 1999: 2184-2188.
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Technical Comments

 Seawater pH and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Ken Caldeira, Robert Berner;, Eric T. Sundquist;, Paul N. Pearson, and Martin R. Palmer;
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