This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Legislate in Haste, Repent at Leisure

Donald Kennedy
Science 26 October 2001: 745.
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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

NASA:
Goldin Quits Top Space Agency Post, But His Legacy Lingers

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 October 2001: 758-759.
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NASA:
Tight Budget Forces Agencywide Review

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 October 2001: 758.
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BIOTERRORISM:
Researchers Question Obsession With Cipro

Martin Enserink
Science 26 October 2001: 759-761.
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COUNTERTERRORISM:
U.S. Science Agencies Begin to Lend a Hand

David Malakoff and Robert Koenig
Science 26 October 2001: 761-762.
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UNIVERSITIES:
Family Moves to Give Institute to Harvard

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 October 2001: 762.
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NEUTRON SOURCES:
Compromise Lifts Hopes for German Reactor

Gretchen Vogel
Science 26 October 2001: 762-763.
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JAPAN:
Summit Seeks Boost for Life Sciences

Dennis Normile
Science 26 October 2001: 763-765.
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CHINA:
First Western Chair Named at Qinghua

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 26 October 2001: 765.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Little Sharper View of Global Warming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 26 October 2001: 765.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

WAR ON TERRORISM:
Collateral Damage

Richard Stone and Robert Koenig
Science 26 October 2001: 766-768.
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WAR ON TERRORISM:
War Is Latest Assault on Progress in Yemeni Science

Richard Stone
Science 26 October 2001: 767.
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BIODIVERSITY:
Up for the Count?

Andrew Lawler
Science 26 October 2001: 769-770.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Uncertainties Plague Projections of vCJD Toll

Michael Balter
Science 26 October 2001: 770-771.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Is BSE in Sheep a No-Brainer?

Michael Balter
Science 26 October 2001: 771.
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AGBIOTECH:
Seeds of Discontent

Daniel Charles
Science 26 October 2001: 772-775.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 26 October 2001: 785.
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 The Use and Usefulness of Placebo Controls

Douglas S. Ramsay, Stephen C. Woods, Raúl de la Fuente-Fernández, and A. Jon Stoessl
Science 26 October 2001: 785.
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 Stuttering: A Matter of Bad Timing

William H. Perkins
Science 26 October 2001: 786.
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 Managing Climate Risk

M. Obersteiner, Ch. Azar, P. Kauppi, K. Möllersten, J. Moreira, S. Nilsson, P. Read, K. Riahi, B. Schlamadinger, Y. Yamagata, J. Yan, and J.-P. van Ypersele
Science 26 October 2001: 786-787.
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 Deciphering River Dolphin Evolution

Michel C. Milinkovitch and Insa Cassens
Science 26 October 2001: 787.
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 Not So Great Lake?

Daniel N. Baker
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

OCEANOGRAPHY:
Song for an Ocean Planet

Marcia K. McNutt
Science 26 October 2001: 791.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Visionary Architect of the Net

John Naughton
Science 26 October 2001: 792.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Europe's Database Experiment

Stephen M. Maurer, P. Bernt Hugenholtz, and Harlan J. Onsrud
Science 26 October 2001: 789-790.
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Perspectives

PHENOLOGY:
Responses to a Warming World

Josep Peñuelas and Iolanda Filella
Science 26 October 2001: 793-795.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
A Baroque Residue in Red Wine

Herman Höfte
Science 26 October 2001: 795-797.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Glimpses of a Tiny RNA World

Gary Ruvkun
Science 26 October 2001: 797-799.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Chip Shots--Will Functional Genomics Get Functional?

Robert L. Modlin and Barry R. Bloom
Science 26 October 2001: 799-801.
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ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: Brown Dwarfs

John E. Gizis
Science 26 October 2001: 801-802.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
How Fast Are Sea Levels Rising?

John A. Church
Science 26 October 2001: 802-803.
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Review

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges

M. Loreau, S. Naeem, P. Inchausti, J. Bengtsson, J. P. Grime, A. Hector, D. U. Hooper, M. A. Huston, D. Raffaelli, B. Schmid, D. Tilman, and D. A. Wardle
Science 26 October 2001: 804-808.
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Brevia

 Climate Change in Nontraditional Data Sets

Raphael Sagarin and Fiorenza Micheli
Science 26 October 2001: 811.
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 The Work Burden of Women

James A. Levine, Robert Weisell, Simon Chevassus, Claudio D. Martinez, Barbara Burlingame, and W. Andrew Coward
Science 26 October 2001: 812.
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Research Articles

Dynamics of the 2001 UK Foot and Mouth Epidemic: Stochastic Dispersal in a Heterogeneous Landscape

Matt J. Keeling, Mark E. J. Woolhouse, Darren J. Shaw, Louise Matthews, Margo Chase-Topping, Dan T. Haydon, Stephen J. Cornell, Jens Kappey, John Wilesmith, and Bryan T. Grenfell
Science 26 October 2001: 813-817.
Published online 3 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065973] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents

C. L. Van Dover, S. E. Humphris, D. Fornari, C. M. Cavanaugh, R. Collier, S. K. Goffredi, J. Hashimoto, M. D. Lilley, A. L. Reysenbach, T. M. Shank, K. L. Von Damm, A. Banta, R. M. Gallant, D. Götz, D. Green, J. Hall, T. L. Harmer, L. A. Hurtado, P. Johnson, Z. P. McKiness, C. Meredith, E. Olson, I. L. Pan, M. Turnipseed, Y. Won, C. R. Young, III, and R. C. Vrijenhoek
Science 26 October 2001: 818-823.
Published online 13 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064574] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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A Four-Dimensional Generalization of the Quantum Hall Effect

Shou-Cheng Zhang and Jiangping Hu
Science 26 October 2001: 823-828.
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Reports

Groundwork for a Rational Synthesis of C₆₀: Cyclodehydrogenation of a C₆₀H₃₀ Polyarene

Margaret M. Boorum, Yury V. Vasil'ev, Thomas Drewello, and Lawrence T. Scott
Science 26 October 2001: 828-831.
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Fully State-Resolved Differential Cross Sections for the Inelastic Scattering of the Open-Shell NO Molecule by Ar

Hiroshi Kohguchi, Toshinori Suzuki, and Millard H. Alexander
Science 26 October 2001: 832-834.
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Inwardly Rotating Spiral Waves in a Reaction-Diffusion System

Vladimir K. Vanag and Irving R. Epstein
Science 26 October 2001: 835-837.
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Observation of Charge Transport by Negatively Charged Excitons

Daniele Sanvitto, Fabio Pulizzi, Andrew J. Shields, Peter C. M. Christianen, Stuart N. Holmes, Michelle Y. Simmons, David A. Ritchie, Jan C. Maan, and Michael Pepper
Science 26 October 2001: 837-839.
Published online 27 September 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064847] (in Science Express Reports)
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Sea Level Rise During Past 40 Years Determined from Satellite and in Situ Observations

Cecile Cabanes, Anny Cazenave, and Christian Le Provost
Science 26 October 2001: 840-842.
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Diversity and Productivity in a Long-Term Grassland Experiment

David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, Johannes Knops, David Wedin, Troy Mielke, and Clarence Lehman
Science 26 October 2001: 843-845.
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Requirement of Borate Cross-Linking of Cell Wall Rhamnogalacturonan II for Arabidopsis Growth

Malcolm A. O'Neill, Stefan Eberhard, Peter Albersheim, and Alan G. Darvill
Science 26 October 2001: 846-849.
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Comparative Genomics of Listeria Species

P. Glaser, L. Frangeul, C. Buchrieser, C. Rusniok, A. Amend, F. Baquero, P. Berche, H. Bloecker, P. Brandt, T. Chakraborty, A. Charbit, F. Chetouani, E. Couvé, A. de Daruvar, P. Dehoux, E. Domann, G. Domínguez-Bernal, E. Duchaud, L. Durant, O. Dussurget, K.-D. Entian, H. Fsihi, F. Garcia-Del Portillo, P. Garrido, L. Gautier, W. Goebel, N. Gómez-López, T. Hain, J. Hauf, D. Jackson, L.-M. Jones, U. Kaerst, J. Kreft, M. Kuhn, F. Kunst, G. Kurapkat, E. Madueño, A. Maitournam, J. Mata Vicente, E. Ng, H. Nedjari, G. Nordsiek, S. Novella, B. de Pablos, J.-C. Pérez-Diaz, R. Purcell, B. Remmel, M. Rose, T. Schlueter, N. Simoes, A. Tierrez, J.-A. Vázquez-Boland, H. Voss, J. Wehland, and P. Cossart
Science 26 October 2001: 849-852.
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Identification of Novel Genes Coding for Small Expressed RNAs

Mariana Lagos-Quintana, Reinhard Rauhut, Winfried Lendeckel, and Thomas Tuschl
Science 26 October 2001: 853-858.
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An Abundant Class of Tiny RNAs with Probable Regulatory Roles in Caenorhabditis elegans

Nelson C. Lau, Lee P. Lim, Earl G. Weinstein, and David P. Bartel
Science 26 October 2001: 858-862.
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An Extensive Class of Small RNAs in Caenorhabditis elegans

Rosalind C. Lee and Victor Ambros
Science 26 October 2001: 862-864.
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Single-Molecule Analysis of Chemotactic Signaling in Dictyostelium Cells

Masahiro Ueda, Yasushi Sako, Toshiki Tanaka, Peter Devreotes, and Toshio Yanagida
Science 26 October 2001: 864-867.
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Recruitment of Mec1 and Ddc1 Checkpoint Proteins to Double-Strand Breaks Through Distinct Mechanisms

Tae Kondo, Tatsushi Wakayama, Takahiro Naiki, Kunihiro Matsumoto, and Katsunori Sugimoto
Science 26 October 2001: 867-870.
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The Plasticity of Dendritic Cell Responses to Pathogens and Their Components

Qian Huang, Dongyu Liu, Paul Majewski, Leah C. Schulte, Joshua M. Korn, Richard A. Young, Eric S. Lander, and Nir Hacohen
Science 26 October 2001: 870-875.
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