This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Dr. Noitall Returns: Just in Time for the Election!

Daniel E. Koshland Jr.
Science 1 December 2000: 1693.
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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

SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT
How Prevalent Is Fraud? That's a Million-Dollar Question

Eliot Marshall
Science 1 December 2000: 1662-1663.
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CLIMATE POLICY:
Too Little, Too Late, at the Climate Talks

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 December 2000: 1663.
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CHEMICAL TESTING:
Sweden to Get Tough on Lingering Compounds

Lotta Fredholm
Science 1 December 2000: 1663-1666.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
NASA Blasted for Rising Costs, Cancellations

Andrew Lawler
Science 1 December 2000: 1666.
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NUCLEAR SCIENCE:
DOE Drops Plan to Restart Reactor

Robert F. Service
Science 1 December 2000: 1666-1667.
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NIH:
Higher Profile for Minority Health

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 December 2000: 1667-1668.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Where the Brain Monitors the Body

Laura Helmuth
Science 1 December 2000: 1668.
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INDIA:
Disease Data Stolen in Lab Break-In

Pallava Bagla
Science 1 December 2000: 1668-1669.
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U.K. SCIENCE BUDGET:
Gene Jocks, Data Crunchers Hit Jackpot

John Pickrell
Science 1 December 2000: 1669-1671.
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MAD COW DISEASE:
New Recruits for French Prion Research

Barbara Casassus
Science 1 December 2000: 1671.
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GENOMICS:
Sanger Will Sequence Zebrafish Genome

Gretchen Vogel
Science 1 December 2000: 1671.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CELL BIOLOGY:
Stem Cells: New Excitement, Persistent Questions

Gretchen Vogel
Science 1 December 2000: 1672-1674.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Stem Cell Scorecard

Gretchen Vogel
Science 1 December 2000: 1673.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossils Come to Life in Mexico

Erik Stokstad
Science 1 December 2000: 1675.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Beating Up on a Young Earth, and Possibly Life

Richard A. Kerr
Science 1 December 2000: 1677.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 1 December 2000: 1695.
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 Scientific Whaling: Source of Illegal Products for Market?

C. Scott Baker, G. M. Lento, F. Cipriano, M. L. Dalebout, S. R. Palumbi;, Mutsuo Goto, and Seiji Ohsumi
Science 1 December 2000: 1695-1696.
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 Further Scrutiny of Scientific Whaling

Robert L. Brownell Jr., Michael F. Tillman, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Per Berggren, and Andrew J. Read
Science 1 December 2000: 1696.
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 Publication Rights for Sequence Data Producers

Elaine Bell;, Lee Rowen, and Leroy Hood
Science 1 December 2000: 1696-1698.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Stirred, Not Shaken

Ullica Segerstråle
Science 1 December 2000: 1703-1705.
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 Browsings

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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
A Fruitful Fungus

David E. A. Catcheside
Science 1 December 2000: 1706.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Privatizing the University--the New Tragedy of the Commons

James Robert Brown
Science 1 December 2000: 1701-1702.
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
Survival Is Impossible Without an Editor

Liam P. Keegan, Angela Gallo, and Mary A. O'Connell
Science 1 December 2000: 1707-1709.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
An Absorbing Study of Cholesterol

Hooman Allayee, Bryan A. Laffitte, and Aldons J. Lusis
Science 1 December 2000: 1709-1711.
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BIOGEOCHEMISTRY:
Sulfate Reducers--Dominant Players in a Low-Oxygen World?

Crisogono Vasconcelos and Judith A. McKenzie
Science 1 December 2000: 1711-1712.
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ECOLOGY:
The Lion and the Lamb Find Closure

Alan Hastings
Science 1 December 2000: 1712-1713.
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APPLIED PHYSICS:
Smaller, Faster Midinfrared Lasers

Jerome Faist
Science 1 December 2000: 1713-1714.
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AMERSHAM PHARMACIA BIOTECH & SCIENCE PRIZE:
Transposition and Evolution of Antigen-Specific Immunity

Alka Agrawal
Science 1 December 2000: 1715-1716.
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Reviews

Autophagy as a Regulated Pathway of Cellular Degradation

Daniel J. Klionsky and Scott D. Emr
Science 1 December 2000: 1717-1721.
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How Cells Handle Cholesterol

Kai Simons and Elina Ikonen
Science 1 December 2000: 1721-1726.
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Reports

Self-Mode-Locking of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Giant Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities

Roberto Paiella, Federico Capasso, Claire Gmachl, Deborah L. Sivco, James N. Baillargeon, Albert L. Hutchinson, Alfred Y. Cho, and H. Liu
Science 1 December 2000: 1739-1742.
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Tunable Resistance of a Carbon Nanotube-Graphite Interface

S. Paulson, A. Helser, and M. Nardelli
Science 1 December 2000: 1742-1744.
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Formation of Sphalerite (ZnS) Deposits in Natural Biofilms of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria

Matthias Labrenz, Gregory K. Druschel, Tamara Thomsen-Ebert, Benjamin Gilbert, Susan A. Welch, Kenneth M. Kemner, Graham A. Logan, Roger E. Summons, Gelsomina De Stasio, Philip L. Bond, Barry Lai, Shelly D. Kelly, and Jillian F. Banfield
Science 1 December 2000: 1744-1747.
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Tropical Climate at the Last Glacial Maximum Inferred from Glacier Mass-Balance Modeling

Steven W. Hostetler and Peter U. Clark
Science 1 December 2000: 1747-1750.
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The Formation of Chondrules at High Gas Pressures in the Solar Nebula

Albert Galy, Edward D. Young, Richard D. Ash, and R. Keith O'Nions
Science 1 December 2000: 1751-1753.
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Support for the Lunar Cataclysm Hypothesis from Lunar Meteorite Impact Melt Ages

B. A. Cohen, T. D. Swindle, and D. A. Kring
Science 1 December 2000: 1754-1756.
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Nitric Acid Trihydrate (NAT) in Polar Stratospheric Clouds

Christiane Voigt, Jochen Schreiner, Andreas Kohlmann, Peter Zink, Konrad Mauersberger, Niels Larsen, Terry Deshler, Chris Kröger, Jim Rosen, Alberto Adriani, Francesco Cairo, Guido Di Donfrancesco, Maurizio Viterbini, Joelle Ovarlez, Henri Ovarlez, Christine David, and Andreas Dörnbrack
Science 1 December 2000: 1756-1758.
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Reinterpreting Space, Time Lags, and Functional Responses in Ecological Models

Matt J. Keeling, Howard B. Wilson, and Steve W. Pacala
Science 1 December 2000: 1758-1761.
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Posttranslational N-Myristoylation of BID as a Molecular Switch for Targeting Mitochondria and Apoptosis

Jiping Zha, Solly Weiler, Kyoung Joon Oh, Michael C. Wei, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Science 1 December 2000: 1761-1765.
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Requirement of the RNA Editing Deaminase ADAR1 Gene for Embryonic Erythropoiesis

Q. Wang, J. Khillan, P. Gadue, and K. Nishikura
Science 1 December 2000: 1765-1768.
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Down-Regulation of the Macrophage Lineage Through Interaction with OX2 (CD200)

Robert M. Hoek, Sigrid R. Ruuls, Craig A. Murphy, Gavin J. Wright, Ruth Goddard, Sandra M. Zurawski, Bianca Blom, Margit E. Homola, Wolfgang J. Streit, Marion H. Brown, A. Neil Barclay, and Jonathon D. Sedgwick
Science 1 December 2000: 1768-1771.
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Accumulation of Dietary Cholesterol in Sitosterolemia Caused by Mutations in Adjacent ABC Transporters

Knut E. Berge, Hui Tian, Gregory A. Graf, Liqing Yu, Nick V. Grishin, Joshua Schultz, Peter Kwiterovich, Bei Shan, Robert Barnes, and Helen H. Hobbs
Science 1 December 2000: 1771-1775.
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From Marrow to Brain: Expression of Neuronal Phenotypes in Adult Mice

Timothy R. Brazelton, Fabio M. V. Rossi, Gilmor I. Keshet, and Helen M. Blau
Science 1 December 2000: 1775-1779.
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Turning Blood into Brain: Cells Bearing Neuronal Antigens Generated in Vivo from Bone Marrow

Éva Mezey, Karen J. Chandross, Gyöngyi Harta, Richard A. Maki, and Scott R. McKercher
Science 1 December 2000: 1779-1782.
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Coding the Location of the Arm by Sight

Michael S. A. Graziano, Dylan F. Cooke, and Charlotte S. R. Taylor
Science 1 December 2000: 1782-1786.
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Neurons in Monkey Prefrontal Cortex That Track Past or Predict Future Performance

Ryohei P. Hasegawa, Ari M. Blitz, Nancy L. Geller, and Michael E. Goldberg
Science 1 December 2000: 1786-1789.
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Technical Comments

 Screening for Cervical Cancer

Tom C. Wright, Jr., Sue J. Goldie, Joanna M. Cain, and Mary K. Howett
Science 1 December 2000: 1651.
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