This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
The Candidates' Views on Science

Donald Kennedy
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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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 Quarterly Author Index

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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

GENOMICS:
Public-Private Project to Deliver Mouse Genome in 6 Months

Eliot Marshall
Science 13 October 2000: 242-243.
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Nobel Prizes

Science 13 October 2000: 242.
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THE RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY:
Gore, Bush Aides in Friendly Tussle

David Malakoff
Science 13 October 2000: 243.
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ANIMAL WELFARE:
Research Groups Win Delay in Rules

David Malakoff
Science 13 October 2000: 243-245.
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RESEARCH MISCONDUCT:
Texas Scientist Admits Falsifying Results

David Malakoff
Science 13 October 2000: 245-246.
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BIOTERRORISM:
Experts Call Fungus Threat Poppycock

Richard Stone
Science 13 October 2000: 246.
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CHEMISTRY:
New Reaction Promises Nanotubes by the Kilo

Robert F. Service
Science 13 October 2000: 246-247.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Video Game Images Persist Despite Amnesia

Laura Helmuth
Science 13 October 2000: 247-249.
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IMMIGRATION POLICY:
Growth in Visas Boosts NSF Education Programs

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 13 October 2000: 249.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS:
CERN Link Breathes Life Into Russian Physics

Richard Stone
Science 13 October 2000: 250-252.
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HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS:
Bulgarians Sue CERN for Leniency

Robert Koenig
Science 13 October 2000: 252.
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PLANT RESEARCH:
Can Genetically Modified Crops Go 'Greener'?

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 13 October 2000: 253-254.
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SCIENCE FUNDING:
Australian Researchers Go for the Gold

Elizabeth Finkel
Science 13 October 2000: 255-257.
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CLIMATE PREDICTION:
Second Thoughts on Skill Of El Niño Predictions

Richard A. Kerr
Science 13 October 2000: 257-258.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
New Brain Cells Prompt New Theory of Depression

Gretchen Vogel
Science 13 October 2000: 258-259.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Math and Science Education: Training the Teachers

Michael M. Gottesman, Sandra R. Shmookler;, Steven B. Oppenheimer;, and Joseph W. Dolce
Science 13 October 2000: 273.
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 Missing Martian Meteorites

Richard L. S. Taylor; and David W. Mittlefehldt
Science 13 October 2000: 273-275.
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 Fingering Digit Identity

Stuart A. Newman, Randall D. Dahn, and John F. Fallon
Science 13 October 2000: 275-277.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

BEHAVIOR:
Playing for Keeps

Karl Sigmund and Martin A. Nowak
Science 13 October 2000: 281.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Mind and Medicine

Ira B. Black
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

Gore and Bush Offer Their Views on Science

Science 13 October 2000: 262-269.
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GENOMICS AND AGRICULTURE:
Collaborations in Rice

Kenneth S. Fischer, John Barton, Gurdev S. Khush, Hei Leung, and Ronald Cantrell
Science 13 October 2000: 279-280.
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Perspectives

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: A Meteorite Falls on Ice

Jeffrey N. Grossman
Science 13 October 2000: 283-285.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
The Younger Dryas: Cold, Cold Everywhere?

Donald T. Rodbell
Science 13 October 2000: 285-286.
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PHOTOCHEMISTRY:
Twist and Fluoresce

John I. Brauman
Science 13 October 2000: 286-287.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Arresting Features of Bacterial Toxins

Jenifer Coburn and John M. Leong
Science 13 October 2000: 287-288.
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EVOLUTION:
The Benefits of Allocating Sex

Stuart A. West, Edward Allen Herre, and Ben C. Sheldon
Science 13 October 2000: 288-290.
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Pathways of Discovery

The Ascent of Atmospheric Sciences

Science 13 October 2000: 299-304.
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Review

The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

P. Falkowski, R. J. Scholes, E. Boyle, J. Canadell, D. Canfield, J. Elser, N. Gruber, K. Hibbard, P. Högberg, S. Linder, F. T. Mackenzie, B. Moore, III, T. Pedersen, Y. Rosenthal, S. Seitzinger, V. Smetacek, and W. Steffen
Science 13 October 2000: 291-296.
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Research Article

Blue-Fluorescent Antibodies

Anton Simeonov, Masayuki Matsushita, Eric A. Juban, Elizabeth H. Z. Thompson, Timothy Z. Hoffman, Albert E. Beuscher, IV, Matthew J. Taylor, Peter Wirsching, Wolfgang Rettig, James K. McCusker, Raymond C. Stevens, David P. Millar, Peter G. Schultz, Richard A. Lerner, and Kim D. Janda
Science 13 October 2000: 307-313.
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Reports

Optical Gain and Stimulated Emission in Nanocrystal Quantum Dots

V. I. Klimov, A. A. Mikhailovsky, Su Xu, A. Malko, J. A. Hollingsworth, C. A. Leatherdale, H.-J. Eisler, and M. G. Bawendi
Science 13 October 2000: 314-317.
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Graphite Polyhedral Crystals

Yury Gogotsi, Joseph A. Libera, Nikolay Kalashnikov, and Masahiro Yoshimura
Science 13 October 2000: 317-320.
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The Fall, Recovery, Orbit, and Composition of the Tagish Lake Meteorite: A New Type of Carbonaceous Chondrite

Peter G. Brown, Alan R. Hildebrand, Michael E. Zolensky, Monica Grady, Robert N. Clayton, Toshiko K. Mayeda, Edward Tagliaferri, Richard Spalding, Neil D. MacRae, Eric L. Hoffman, David W. Mittlefehldt, John F. Wacker, J. Andrew Bird, Margaret D. Campbell, Robert Carpenter, Heather Gingerich, Michael Glatiotis, Erika Greiner, Michael J. Mazur, Phil JA. McCausland, Howard Plotkin, and Tina Rubak Mazur
Science 13 October 2000: 320-325.
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The Last Glacial-Holocene Transition in Southern Chile

K. D. Bennett, S. G. Haberle, and S. H. Lumley
Science 13 October 2000: 325-328.
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A Niche Maintaining Germ Line Stem Cells in the Drosophila Ovary

Ting Xie and Allan C. Spradling
Science 13 October 2000: 328-330.
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Deleterious Mutations and the Evolution of Sex

Peter D. Keightley and Adam Eyre-Walker
Science 13 October 2000: 331-333.
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Localized Rac Activation Dynamics Visualized in Living Cells

Vadim S. Kraynov, Chester Chamberlain, Gary M. Bokoch, Martin A. Schwartz, Sarah Slabaugh, and Klaus M. Hahn
Science 13 October 2000: 333-337.
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A Myosin I Isoform in the Nucleus

Lidija Pestic-Dragovich, Ljuba Stojiljkovic, Anatoly A. Philimonenko, Grzegorz Nowak, Yunbo Ke, Robert E. Settlage, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Donald F. Hunt, Pavel Hozak, and Primal de Lanerolle
Science 13 October 2000: 337-341.
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Plasma Membrane Compartmentalization in Yeast by Messenger RNA Transport and a Septin Diffusion Barrier

Peter A. Takizawa, Joseph L. DeRisi, James E. Wilhelm, and Ronald D. Vale
Science 13 October 2000: 341-344.
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Molecular Analysis of FRIGIDA, a Major Determinant of Natural Variation in Arabidopsis Flowering Time

Urban Johanson, Joanne West, Clare Lister, Scott Michaels, Richard Amasino, and Caroline Dean
Science 13 October 2000: 344-347.
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Selfish DNA in Protein-Coding Genes of Rickettsia

Hiroyuki Ogata, Stéphane Audic, Valérie Barbe, François Artiguenave, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Didier Raoult, and Jean-Michel Claverie
Science 13 October 2000: 347-350.
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Replaying the Game: Hypnagogic Images in Normals and Amnesics

Robert Stickgold, April Malia, Denise Maguire, David Roddenberry, and Margaret O'Connor
Science 13 October 2000: 350-353.
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A Bacterial Toxin That Controls Cell Cycle Progression as a Deoxyribonuclease I-Like Protein

Maria Lara-Tejero and Jorge E. Galán
Science 13 October 2000: 354-357.
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