This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
"Faster, Better, Cheaper"? Agencies and Scientists

Giovanni F. Bignami
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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

SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Push to Revive Pluto Mission May Mean Competition for JPL

Andrew Lawler
Science 17 November 2000: 1270-1271.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Heretical View of Visual Development

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 17 November 2000: 1271-1273.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
An Antibiotic to Treat Alzheimer's?

Laura Helmuth
Science 17 November 2000: 1273-1274.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser

Oliver Morton
Science 17 November 2000: 1274.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Core Takes a Page From the Sea Floor

Richard A. Kerr
Science 17 November 2000: 1274-1275.
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UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT:
Debate Flares Over Tracking Foreigners

Andrew Lawler
Science 17 November 2000: 1276.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Arsenic Researchers Face Isotope Shortage

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 17 November 2000: 1276-1277.
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ELECTION 2000:
Uncertainty Wins by a Landslide

David Malakoff
Science 17 November 2000: 1277-1279.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Astronomers Spot Their First Carbon Bomb

Robert Irion
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CLINICAL TRIALS:
Planned Ritalin Trial for Tots Heads Into Uncharted Waters

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 November 2000: 1280-1282.
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CLINICAL TRIALS:
Enforcers Halt NIH Study Called Less Risky Than Outdoor Play

Eliot Marshall
Science 17 November 2000: 1281.
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NINTH INTERNATIONAL CORAL REEF SYMPOSIUM:
Reef Migrations, Bleaching Effects Stir the Air in Bali

Dennis Normile
Science 17 November 2000: 1282-1283.
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VIKTOR HAMBURGER:
A Lifelong Fascination With the Chick Embryo

Kathryn Brown
Science 17 November 2000: 1284-1287.
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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
New Science Chief Must Juggle Missions and Politics

Andrew Watson
Science 17 November 2000: 1287-1288.
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EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY:
Getting More Out of Space

Andrew Watson
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DEMOGRAPHY:
A Billion and Counting: China's Tricky Census

Daniel Walfish
Science 17 November 2000: 1288-1289.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Is It Warm? Is It Real? Or Just Low Spatial Frequency?

Margaret S. Livingstone
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 Animal Welfare Act's Changes Deserve Praise, Not Panic

John McArdle
Science 17 November 2000: 1299-1300.
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 Agriculture, Food Systems, Energy, and Global Change

Kenneth A. Dahlberg
Science 17 November 2000: 1300.
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 Measurements and Models of Soil Loss Rates

M. A. Nearing, M. J. M. Romkens, L. D. Norton, D. E. Stott, F. E. Rhoton, J. M. Laflen, D. C. Flanagan, C. V. Alonso, R. L. Binger, S. M. Dabney, O. C. Doering, C. H. Huang, K. C. McGregor, A. Simon;, Stanley W. Trimble, and Pierre Crosson
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 Thoughts on the Causes of Tree Mortality in Appalachia

Howard S. Neufeld
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Learning by Text or Context?

Bruce R. Schatz
Science 17 November 2000: 1304.
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FOOD:
A Feast Without Recipes

John Emsley
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

SCIENCE PRIORITIES:
An Opportunities-Based Science Budget

Newt Gingrich
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Perspectives

ORIGIN OF LIFE:
Enhanced: A Simpler Nucleic Acid

Leslie Orgel
Science 17 November 2000: 1306-1307.
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PHASE TRANSITIONS:
Y's and Ends

Philip Pincus
Science 17 November 2000: 1307-1308.
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GENOMICS AND GENE THERAPY:
Artificial Chromosomes Coming to Life

Huntington F. Willard
Science 17 November 2000: 1308-1309.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Putting a New Spin on Carbon Nanotubes

Ray H. Baughman
Science 17 November 2000: 1310-1311.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Turning Up the Heat on Histoplasma capsulatum

Bruce S. Klein
Science 17 November 2000: 1311-1312.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Variable Carbon Sinks

Inez Fung
Science 17 November 2000: 1313.
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Tech.Sight

BIOCHEMISTRY:
Biosensors--Sense and Sensitivity

Anthony P. F. Turner
Science 17 November 2000: 1315-1317.
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 SOFTWARE:
Equationsmith

Eric Basham
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 SOFTWARE:
Infrared Spectra Vending Machine

Satyam Priyadarshy and Ashvani K. Singh
Science 17 November 2000: 1318.
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 SOFTWARE:
Mega Stats

William Seffens
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 SOFTWARE:
New Primer Predictor

Yiannis A. Ioannou
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Research Article

Early Development of Ocular Dominance Columns

Justin C. Crowley and Lawrence C. Katz
Science 17 November 2000: 1321-1324.
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Reports

Hot Plasma and Black Hole Binaries in Starburst Galaxy M82

R. E. Griffiths, A. Ptak, E. D. Feigelson, G. Garmire, L. Townsley, W. N. Brandt, R. Sambruna, and J. N. Bregman
Science 17 November 2000: 1325-1328.
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Defect-Induced Phase Separation in Dipolar Fluids

T. Tlusty and S. A. Safran
Science 17 November 2000: 1328-1331.
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Macroscopic Fibers and Ribbons of Oriented Carbon Nanotubes

Brigitte Vigolo, Alain Pénicaud, Claude Coulon, Cédric Sauder, René Pailler, Catherine Journet, Patrick Bernier, and Philippe Poulin
Science 17 November 2000: 1331-1334.
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Change in the Probability for Earthquakes in Southern California Due to the Landers Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake

Max Wyss and Stefan Wiemer
Science 17 November 2000: 1334-1338.
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Sediments at the Top of Earth's Core

Bruce A. Buffett, Edward J. Garnero, and Raymond Jeanloz
Science 17 November 2000: 1338-1342.
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Regional Changes in Carbon Dioxide Fluxes of Land and Oceans Since 1980 

Philippe Bousquet, Philippe Peylin, Philippe Ciais, Corinne Le Quéré, Pierre Friedlingstein, and Pieter P. Tans
Science 17 November 2000: 1342-1346.
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Chemical Etiology of Nucleic Acid Structure: The -Threofuranosyl-(3'2') Oligonucleotide System

K.-U. Schöning, P. Scholz, S. Guntha, X. Wu, R. Krishnamurthy, and A. Eschenmoser
Science 17 November 2000: 1347-1351.
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Protection Against Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Resulting from Bites of Uninfected Sand Flies

Shaden Kamhawi, Yasmine Belkaid, Govind Modi, Edgar Rowton, and David Sacks
Science 17 November 2000: 1351-1354.
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Regulation of Antigen-Specific CD8⁺ T Cell Homeostasis by Perforin and Interferon-

Vladimir P. Badovinac, Amy R. Tvinnereim, and John T. Harty
Science 17 November 2000: 1354-1357.
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Crossing the Hopf Bifurcation in a Live Predator-Prey System

Gregor F. Fussmann, Stephen P. Ellner, Kyle W. Shertzer, and Nelson G. Hairston, Jr.
Science 17 November 2000: 1358-1360.
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Coherence and Conservation

David J. D. Earn, Simon A. Levin, and Pejman Rohani
Science 17 November 2000: 1360-1364.
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PSD-95 Involvement in Maturation of Excitatory Synapses

Alaa El-Din El-Husseini, Eric Schnell, Dane M. Chetkovich, Roger A. Nicoll, and David S. Bredt
Science 17 November 2000: 1364-1368.
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Intracellular Parasitism by Histoplasma capsulatum: Fungal Virulence and Calcium Dependence

Tricia Schurtz Sebghati, Jacquelyn T. Engle, and William E. Goldman
Science 17 November 2000: 1368-1372.
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