This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Reshaping Basic Research

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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 NEW PRODUCTS

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News of the Week

BIOETHICS:
Helsinki's New Clinical Rules: Fewer Placebos, More Disclosure

Martin Enserink
Science 20 October 2000: 418-419.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Paintings in Italian Cave May Be Oldest Yet

Michael Balter
Science 20 October 2000: 419-421.
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ECOLOGY:
Plant Invader May Use Chemical Weapons

Mari N. Jensen
Science 20 October 2000: 421-422.
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EDUCATION:
Gates Gives Cambridge a Rival to Rhodes

Jon Cohen
Science 20 October 2000: 422.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Arizona to Take High Road to Preservation?

Mark Muro
Science 20 October 2000: 422-423.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
Windfall for French Biomedical Agency

Michael Balter
Science 20 October 2000: 423.
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PHYSIOLOGY NOBEL:
Celebrating the Synapse

Michael Balter
Science 20 October 2000: 424.
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PHYSICS NOBEL:
Achievements Etched in Silicon

Charles Seife
Science 20 October 2000: 424-425.
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CHEMISTRY NOBEL:
Getting a Charge Out of Plastics

Robert F. Service
Science 20 October 2000: 425-427.
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ECONOMICS NOBEL:
Dealing With Biases and Discrete Choices

Charles Seife
Science 20 October 2000: 427.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MALARIA:
A Renewed Assault on an Old and Deadly Foe

Eliot Marshall
Science 20 October 2000: 428-430.
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MALARIA:
Can WHO Roll Back Malaria?

Michael Balter
Science 20 October 2000: 430.
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AFRICAN RESEARCH:
Against All Odds, Victories From the Front Lines

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 October 2000: 431-433.
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AFRICAN RESEARCH:
Traditional and Modern Medicine Merge to Save Lives

Gretchen Vogel
Science 20 October 2000: 432.
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VACCINES:
Searching for a Parasite's Weak Spot

Gary Taubes
Science 20 October 2000: 434-437.
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VACCINES:
Malaria Parasite Outwits the Immune System

Gary Taubes
Science 20 October 2000: 435.
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DRUGS:
Reinventing an Ancient Cure for Malaria

Eliot Marshall
Science 20 October 2000: 437-439.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Closing In on a Deadly Parasite's Genome

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 20 October 2000: 439.
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MOSQUITO ENGINEERING:
Building a Disease-Fighting Mosquito

Martin Enserink
Science 20 October 2000: 440-441.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Soft Money Is Hard to Find

Judith Luber-Narod
Science 20 October 2000: 453.
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 A Benefit of Being Big

David Schimpf
Science 20 October 2000: 453.
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 Consideration of Copollutants

Suresh H. Moolgavkar
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 Space Station Research: Details Please

Scott N. Swisher
Science 20 October 2000: 453-454.
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 Examining the Motivations for Generosity

Nikolaos Kazantzis, Robbie Sutton;, Claus Wedekind, and Manfred Milinski
Science 20 October 2000: 454-455.
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 What Story Is Told by Oceanic Tracer Concentrations?

Nicolas Gruber, Klaus Keller, Robert M. Key;, Markus Pahlow, and Ulf Riebesell
Science 20 October 2000: 455-456.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PALEONTOLOGY:
Science, Art, and Dinosaurs

Lawrence M. Witmer
Science 20 October 2000: 460-461.
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ENTOMOLOGY:
A Framework for Melittology

David W. Roubik
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES:
Bioengineered Food--Safety and Labeling

Karen A. Goldman
Science 20 October 2000: 457-459.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
The Rapid Origin of Reproductive Isolation

Nick Barton
Science 20 October 2000: 462-463.
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AIDS:
Enhanced: Preventing AIDS But Not HIV-1 Infection with a DNA Vaccine

Xuefei Shen and Robert F. Siliciano
Science 20 October 2000: 463-465.
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MAGNETISM:
Magnets Fast and Small

Jacques Miltat and André Thiaville
Science 20 October 2000: 466-467.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
The Weather on Titan

Ralph D. Lorenz
Science 20 October 2000: 467-468.
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Tech.Sight

GENOMICS:
The Babel of Bioinformatics

Teresa K. Attwood
Science 27 October 2000: 471-473.
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 SOFTWARE:
Conquering by Dividing

Kevin Ahern
Science 27 October 2000: 473.
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 SOFTWARE:
Eyes on the Skies

Kevin Ahern
Science 27 October 2000: 473-474.
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 SOFTWARE:
Genomics Made Easy

Indira Rajagopal
Science 27 October 2000: 474.
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Research Articles

Structure of a Glycerol-Conducting Channel and the Basis for Its Selectivity

Daxiong Fu, Andrew Libson, Larry J. W. Miercke, Cindy Weitzman, Peter Nollert, Jolanta Krucinski, and Robert M. Stroud
Science 20 October 2000: 481-486.
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Control of Viremia and Prevention of Clinical AIDS in Rhesus Monkeys by Cytokine-Augmented DNA Vaccination

Dan H. Barouch, Sampa Santra, Jörn E. Schmitz, Marcelo J. Kuroda, Tong-Ming Fu, Wendeline Wagner, Miroslawa Bilska, Abie Craiu, Xin Xiao Zheng, Georgia R. Krivulka, Kristin Beaudry, Michelle A. Lifton, Christine E. Nickerson, Wendy L. Trigona, Kara Punt, Dan C. Freed, Liming Guan, Sheri Dubey, Danilo Casimiro, Adam Simon, Mary-Ellen Davies, Michael Chastain, Terry B. Strom, Rebecca S. Gelman, David C. Montefiori, Mark G. Lewis, Emilio A. Emini, John W. Shiver, and Norman L. Letvin
Science 20 October 2000: 486-492.
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Reports

Imaging Precessional Motion of the Magnetization Vector

Y. Acremann, C. H. Back, M. Buess, O. Portmann, A. Vaterlaus, D. Pescia, and H. Melchior
Science 20 October 2000: 492-495.
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Modulation Instability and Pattern Formation in Spatially Incoherent Light Beams

Detlef Kip, Marin Soljacic, Mordechai Segev, Eugenia Eugenieva, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides
Science 20 October 2000: 495-498.
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Experimental Verification of Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Paul G. Kwiat, Andrew J. Berglund, Joseph B. Altepeter, and Andrew G. White
Science 20 October 2000: 498-501.
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Electronic Structure of Solids with Competing Periodic Potentials

J. Voit, L. Perfetti, F. Zwick, H. Berger, G. Margaritondo, G. Grüner, H. Höchst, and M. Grioni
Science 20 October 2000: 501-503.
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A Stable Bicyclic Compound with Two SiSi Double Bonds

Takeaki Iwamoto, Makoto Tamura, Chizuko Kabuto, and Mitsuo Kira
Science 20 October 2000: 504-506.
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Dimer Preparation That Mimics the Transition State for the Adsorption of H₂ on the Si(100)-2 × 1 Surface

Emily J. Buehler and John J. Boland
Science 20 October 2000: 506-509.
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Detection of Daily Clouds on Titan

Caitlin A. Griffith, Joseph L. Hall, and Thomas R. Geballe
Science 20 October 2000: 509-513.
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Acute Sensitivity of Landslide Rates to Initial Soil Porosity

R. M. Iverson, M. E. Reid, N. R. Iverson, R. G. LaHusen, M. Logan, J. E. Mann, and D. L. Brien
Science 20 October 2000: 513-516.
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Rapid Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in the Wild: Evidence from Introduced Salmon

Andrew P. Hendry, John K. Wenburg, Paul Bentzen, Eric C. Volk, and Thomas P. Quinn
Science 20 October 2000: 516-518.
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Natural Selection and the Reinforcement of Mate Recognition

Megan Higgie, Steve Chenoweth, and Mark W. Blows
Science 20 October 2000: 519-521.
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Invasive Plants Versus Their New and Old Neighbors: A Mechanism for Exotic Invasion

Ragan M. Callaway and Erik T. Aschehoug
Science 20 October 2000: 521-523.
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Two-Amino Acid Molecular Switch in an Epithelial Morphogen That Regulates Binding to Two Distinct Receptors

Minhong Yan, Li-Chong Wang, Sarah G. Hymowitz, Sarah Schilbach, James Lee, Audrey Goddard, Abraham M. de Vos, Wei-Qiang Gao, and Vishva M. Dixit
Science 20 October 2000: 523-527.
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CD95/CD95 Ligand Interactions on Epithelial Cells in Host Defense to Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Heike Grassmé, Susanne Kirschnek, Joachim Riethmueller, Andrea Riehle, Gabriele von Kürthy, Florian Lang, Michael Weller, and Erich Gulbins
Science 20 October 2000: 527-530.
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Specific Mutations Induced by Triplex-Forming Oligonucleotides in Mice

Karen M. Vasquez, Latha Narayanan, and Peter M. Glazer
Science 20 October 2000: 530-533.
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Learning-Induced LTP in Neocortex

Mengia-S. Rioult-Pedotti, Daniel Friedman, and John P. Donoghue
Science 20 October 2000: 533-536.
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Technical Comments

 Indirect Aerosol Forcing

Joyce E. Penner, Leon D. Rotstayn, and Thomas J. Crowley
Science 20 October 2000: 407.
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