This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Biological Security in a Changed World

Christopher F. Chyba
Science 28 September 2001: 2349.
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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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 AAAS News & Notes

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News of the Week

RESEARCH FUNDING:
White House Asks Community to Oppose Earmark Projects

David Malakoff
Science 28 September 2001: 2364.
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DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:
Organs Await Blood Vessels' Go Signal

Caroline Seydel
Science 28 September 2001: 2365.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
New Visitors Set for Lunar Voyage

Alexander Hellemans
Science 28 September 2001: 2365-2367.
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STEM CELL RESEARCH:
Reports Give Green Light in Australia, Israel

Leigh Dayton and Gretchen Vogel
Science 28 September 2001: 2367-2368.
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CONDENSED MATTER
Quantum Condensate Gets a Fresh Squeeze

Charles Seife
Science 28 September 2001: 2368.
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PALEOANTHROPOLOGY:
Tools Show Humans Reached Asia Early

Ann Gibbons
Science 28 September 2001: 2368-2369.
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FRENCH SCIENCE:
Budget Backs University Research, Job Creation

Michael Balter
Science 28 September 2001: 2369-2370.
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MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS:
Magnetic Storms Have Two Drivers, Not One

Richard A. Kerr
Science 28 September 2001: 2370.
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MALARIA RESEARCH:
Two New Steps Toward a 'Better Mosquito'

Martin Enserink
Science 28 September 2001: 2370-2371.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Unhatched Eggs Help Dinos Get a Head

Erik Stokstad
Science 28 September 2001: 2371.
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CLINICAL RESEARCH:
India Acts on Flawed Cancer Drug Trials

Pallava Bagla
Science 28 September 2001: 2371-2373.
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FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY:
For Ice Man, the Band Plays On

Ben Shouse
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SWEDISH BIOSCIENCE:
Karolinska Inc.

Richard Stone and Lone Frank
Science 28 September 2001: 2374-2376.
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SWEDISH BIOSCIENCE:
Working Sweden's Population Gold Mine

Jocelyn Kaiser
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EVOLUTION:
Evolutionary Pulse Found, But Complexity as Well

Richard A. Kerr
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ECOLOGY:
Cave Biologists Unearth Buried Treasure

Kevin Krajick
Science 28 September 2001: 2378-2381.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Mitigating GHGs in Developing Countries

Hans M. Seip, Kristin Aunan, Haakon Vennemo, Jinghua Fang;, Luis Cifuentes, Victor H. Borja-Aburto, Nelson Gouveia, George Thurston, and Devra Lee Davis
Science 28 September 2001: 2391-2392.
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 Short-Term Trials and Long-Term Effects

Stephen R. Daniels;, Sana M. Al-Khatib, Robert M. Califf, Vic Hasselblad, John H. Alexander, Douglas C. McCrory, and Jeremy Sugarman
Science 28 September 2001: 2392-294.
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 Advice for a Better OTA

Charles Weiss
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 Comparing Human Genome Mapping Data

Colin A. M. Semple, Kathryn L. Evans, Stewart W. Morris, and David J. Porteous
Science 28 September 2001: 2394-2395.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Studied Ambiguity

Richard Rorty
Science 28 September 2001: 2399-2400.
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Some of the Truth

John Polkinghorne
Science 28 September 2001: 2400.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ENERGY:
Plutonium and Reprocessing of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Frank N. von Hippel
Science 28 September 2001: 2397-2398.
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Perspectives

PALEOECOLOGY:
Measuring Past Biodiversity

Jeremy B. C. Jackson and Kenneth G. Johnson
Science 28 September 2001: 2401-2404.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Life Without Caveolae

Robert G. Parton
Science 28 September 2001: 2404-2405.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
The Face of Controversy

Jonathan D. Cohen and Frank Tong
Science 28 September 2001: 2405-2407.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Dopamine's Reversal of Fortune

Randy D. Blakely
Science 28 September 2001: 2407-2409.
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ASTRONOMY:
A Stellar Merry-Go-Round

Thierry Montmerle
Science 28 September 2001: 2409-2410.
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SUPERCONDUCTIVITY:
Enhanced: The Race to Beat the Cuprates

Elbio Dagotto
Science 28 September 2001: 2410-2411.
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Review

Neutral Macroecology

Graham Bell
Science 28 September 2001: 2413-2418.
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Research Article

Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex

James V. Haxby, M. Ida Gobbini, Maura L. Furey, Alumit Ishai, Jennifer L. Schouten, and Pietro Pietrini
Science 28 September 2001: 2425-2430.
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Reports

Field-Induced Superconductivity in a Spin-Ladder Cuprate

J. H. Schön, M. Dorget, F. C. Beuran, X. Z. Xu, E. Arushanov, M. Laguës, and C. Deville Cavellin
Science 28 September 2001: 2430-2432.
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High-Temperature Superconductivity in Lattice-Expanded C₆₀

J. H. Schön, Ch. Kloc, and B. Batlogg
Science 28 September 2001: 2432-2434.
Published online 30 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064773] (in Science Express Reports)
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Restricting Dislocation Movement in Transition Metal Carbides by Phase Stability Tuning

Håkan W. Hugosson, Ulf Jansson, Börje Johansson, and Olle Eriksson
Science 28 September 2001: 2434-2437.
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Stability and Structure of MgSiO₃ Perovskite to 2300-Kilometer Depth in Earth's Mantle

Sang-Heon Shim, Thomas S. Duffy, and Guoyin Shen
Science 28 September 2001: 2437-2440.
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ENSO-like Forcing on Oceanic Primary Production During the Late Pleistocene

Luc Beaufort, Thibault de Garidel-Thoron, Alan C. Mix, and Nicklas G. Pisias
Science 28 September 2001: 2440-2444.
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Embryonic Skulls of Titanosaur Sauropod Dinosaurs

Luis M. Chiappe, Leonardo Salgado, and Rodolfo A. Coria
Science 28 September 2001: 2444-2446.
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Effects of Helpers on Juvenile Development and Survival in Meerkats

T. H. Clutton-Brock, A. F. Russell, L. L. Sharpe, P. N. M. Brotherton, G. M. McIlrath, S. White, and E. Z. Cameron
Science 28 September 2001: 2446-2449.
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Loss of Caveolae, Vascular Dysfunction, and Pulmonary Defects in Caveolin-1 Gene-Disrupted Mice

Marek Drab, Paul Verkade, Marlies Elger, Michael Kasper, Matthias Lohn, Birgit Lauterbach, Jan Menne, Carsten Lindschau, Fanny Mende, Friedrich C. Luft, Andreas Schedl, Hermann Haller, and Teymuras V. Kurzchalia
Science 28 September 2001: 2449-2452.
Published online 9 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1062688] (in Science Express Reports)
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Correlation Between Histone Lysine Methylation and Developmental Changes at the Chicken -Globin Locus

Michael D. Litt, Melanie Simpson, Miklos Gaszner, C. David Allis, and Gary Felsenfeld
Science 28 September 2001: 2453-2455.
Published online 9 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064413] (in Science Express Reports)
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Structure of Arp2/3 Complex in Its Activated State and in Actin Filament Branch Junctions

Niels Volkmann, Kurt J. Amann, Svetla Stoilova-McPhie, Coumaran Egile, Dirk C. Winter, Larnele Hazelwood, John E. Heuser, Rong Li, Thomas D. Pollard, and Dorit Hanein
Science 28 September 2001: 2456-2459.
Published online 30 August 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063025] (in Science Express Reports)
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Trans-Suppression of Misfolding in an Amyloid Disease

Per Hammarström, Frank Schneider, and Jeffery W. Kelly
Science 28 September 2001: 2459-2462.
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Strand-Specific Postreplicative Processing of Mammalian Telomeres

S. M. Bailey, M. N. Cornforth, A. Kurimasa, D. J. Chen, and E. H. Goodwin
Science 28 September 2001: 2462-2465.
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Dendrodendritic Inhibition Through Reversal of Dopamine Transport

Björn H. Falkenburger, Karen L. Barstow, and Isabelle M. Mintz
Science 28 September 2001: 2465-2470.
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A Cortical Area Selective for Visual Processing of the Human Body

Paul E. Downing, Yuhong Jiang, Miles Shuman, and Nancy Kanwisher
Science 28 September 2001: 2470-2473.
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Technical Comments

 An Extraterrestrial Impact at the Permian-Triassic Boundary?

K. A. Farley, S. Mukhopadhyay, Yukio Isozaki, Luann Becker, and Robert J. Poreda
Science 28 September 2001: 2343.
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