This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Science Arrives in Government-A Bit Late

Donald Kennedy
Science 9 November 2001: 1241.
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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

COUNTERTERRORISM:
U.S. Enlists Researchers as Fight Widens Against Bioterrorism

Eliot Marshall
Science 9 November 2001: 1254-1255.
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SCIENCE POLICY:
Peer-Review Critic Gets NIH 'Rejects'

David Malakoff
Science 9 November 2001: 1255-1257.
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PARKINSON'S DISEASE:
Dopamine May Sustain Toxic Protein

Jennifer Couzin
Science 9 November 2001: 1257-1258.
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ASTROBIOLOGY:
Putting a Lid on Life on Europa

Richard A. Kerr
Science 9 November 2001: 1258-1259.
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY:
Science Office Grows, Nonproliferation Stalls

David Malakoff and Robert Koenig
Science 9 November 2001: 1259-1261.
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RUSSIAN SCIENCE:
Government Spurns Human Genome Effort

Vladimir Pokrovsky and Andrey Allakhverdov
Science 9 November 2001: 1261.
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GENOME SEQUENCING:
Insects Rank Low Among Genome Priorities

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 November 2001: 1261-1262.
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ITALIAN RESEARCH:
Mirage of Big Budget Boost Evaporates

Ben Shouse
Science 9 November 2001: 1262.
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SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY:
Reality TV Puts Group Behavior to the Test

Ben Shouse
Science 9 November 2001: 1262-1263.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Black Hole Blazes Away Without a Fuel Supply

Mark K. Anderson
Science 9 November 2001: 1263.
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GENETIC RESOURCES:
Seed Treaty Signed; U.S., Japan Abstain

Daniel Charles
Science 9 November 2001: 1263-1264.
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SPACE STATION
Science Comes First, Panel Tells NASA

Andrew Lawler
Science 9 November 2001: 1264-1265.
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Spooky Twins Survive Einsteinian Torture

Charles Seife
Science 9 November 2001: 1265.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANTHRAX:
Biodefense Hampered by Inadequate Tests

Martin Enserink
Science 9 November 2001: 1266-1267.
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ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY:
The Other Global Pollutant: Nitrogen Proves Tough to Curb

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 9 November 2001: 1268-1269.
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OLFACTION:
Smell's Course Is Predetermined

Marcia Barinaga
Science 9 November 2001: 1269-1271.
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ZOO BIOLOGY:
A Fertile Mind on Wildlife Conservation's Front Lines

Gretchen Vogel
Science 9 November 2001: 1271-1272.
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SPACE SOLAR POWER:
Japan Looks for Bright Answers to Energy Needs

Dennis Normile
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Chips, Infections, and National Security

Robert L. Modlin and Barry R. Bloom
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 Green Invaders of the Galápagos Islands

John Magee, Conley K. McMullen, Jamie K. Reaser, Emily Spitzer, Susana Struve, Craig Tufts, Alan Tye, and Garth Woodruff
Science 9 November 2001: 1279-1280.
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 Problem Pigs in a Poke: A Good Pool of Data

I. Lehr Brisbin Jr. and John J. Mayer
Science 9 November 2001: 1280-1281.
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 A Way to Boost NSF's Astronomy Program

William E. Howard III
Science 9 November 2001: 1281-1282.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ENVIRONMENT:
Relying on Manna from Heaven?

Michael Grubb
Science 9 November 2001: 1285-1287.
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ENERGY:
Working Towards a Sustainable Future

Walt Patterson
Science 9 November 2001: 1287-1288.
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POETRY:
Images of Inhumanism

Christopher Cokinos
Science 9 November 2001: 1288-1289.
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 Browsings

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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Global Warming Economics

William D. Nordhaus
Science 9 November 2001: 1283-1284.
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Perspectives

GENOMICS:
Zebrafish--the Canonical Vertebrate

Mark C. Fishman
Science 9 November 2001: 1290-1291.
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PROTEIN FUNCTION:
Nota Bene: Clockedout--an Archetype of a Functionless Protein

Chip Reader
Science 9 November 2001: 1291.
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CHEMISTRY:
Cluster Solutions

Anthony Stace
Science 9 November 2001: 1292-1293.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Enhanced: Toward Nanocomputers

Greg Y. Tseng and James C. Ellenbogen
Science 9 November 2001: 1293-1294.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Antigen Presentation--Losing Its Shine in the Absence of GILT

Colin Watts
Science 9 November 2001: 1294-1295.
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NEUROBIOLOGY:
Cholesterol--Making or Breaking the Synapse

Ben A. Barres and Stephen J. Smith
Science 9 November 2001: 1296-1297.
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GEOLOGY:
Deep Below North America

Suzan van der Lee
Science 9 November 2001: 1297-1298.
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 CHEMISTRY:
Nota Bene: Know Thine Enemy

Orla Smith
Science 9 November 2001: 1298.
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Review

The Guanine Nucleotide-Binding Switch in Three Dimensions

Ingrid R. Vetter and Alfred Wittinghofer
Science 9 November 2001: 1299-1304.
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Research Article

Regulation of Receptor Fate by Ubiquitination of Activated ₂-Adrenergic Receptor and -Arrestin

Sudha K. Shenoy, Patricia H. McDonald, Trudy A. Kohout, and Robert J. Lefkowitz
Science 9 November 2001: 1307-1313.
Published online 4 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063866] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Logic Gates and Computation from Assembled Nanowire Building Blocks

Yu Huang, Xiangfeng Duan, Yi Cui, Lincoln J. Lauhon, Kyoung-Ha Kim, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 9 November 2001: 1313-1317.
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Logic Circuits with Carbon Nanotube Transistors

Adrian Bachtold, Peter Hadley, Takeshi Nakanishi, and Cees Dekker
Science 9 November 2001: 1317-1320.
Published online 4 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065824] (in Science Express Reports)
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Bose-Einstein Condensation of Potassium Atoms by Sympathetic Cooling

G. Modugno, G. Ferrari, G. Roati, R. J. Brecha, A. Simoni, and M. Inguscio
Science 9 November 2001: 1320-1322.
Published online 18 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066687] (in Science Express Reports)
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Bulk-Like Features in the Photoemission Spectra of Hydrated Doubly Charged Anion Clusters

Xue-Bin Wang, Xin Yang, John B. Nicholas, and Lai-Sheng Wang
Science 9 November 2001: 1322-1325.
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Thickness of a Europan Ice Shell from Impact Crater Simulations

E. P. Turtle and E. Pierazzo
Science 9 November 2001: 1326-1328.
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Centennial-Scale Holocene Climate Variability Revealed by a High-Resolution Speleothem ¹⁸O Record from SW Ireland

Frank McDermott, David P. Mattey, and Chris Hawkesworth
Science 9 November 2001: 1328-1331.
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Trithorax and dCBP Acting in a Complex to Maintain Expression of a Homeotic Gene

Svetlana Petruk, Yurii Sedkov, Sheryl Smith, Sergei Tillib, Vladislav Kraevski, Tatsuya Nakamura, Eli Canaani, Carlo M. Croce, and Alexander Mazo
Science 9 November 2001: 1331-1334.
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Collaboration Between CC- and A-Adding Enzymes to Build and Repair the 3'-Terminal CCA of tRNA in Aquifex aeolicus

Kozo Tomita and Alan M. Weiner
Science 9 November 2001: 1334-1336.
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A Conserved Family of Prolyl-4-Hydroxylases That Modify HIF

Richard K. Bruick and Steven L. McKnight
Science 9 November 2001: 1337-1340.
Published online 11 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066373] (in Science Express Reports)
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Reconstitution of Physiological Microtubule Dynamics Using Purified Components

Kazuhisa Kinoshita, Isabelle Arnal, Arshad Desai, David N. Drechsel, and Anthony A. Hyman
Science 9 November 2001: 1340-1343.
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A Phosphatase Associated with Metastasis of Colorectal Cancer

Saurabh Saha, Alberto Bardelli, Phillip Buckhaults, Victor E. Velculescu, Carlo Rago, Brad St. Croix, Katharine E. Romans, Michael A. Choti, Christoph Lengauer, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
Science 9 November 2001: 1343-1346.
Published online 11 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065817] (in Science Express Reports)
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Kinetic Stabilization of the -Synuclein Protofibril by a Dopamine--Synuclein Adduct

Kelly A. Conway, Jean-Christophe Rochet, Robert M. Bieganski, and Peter T. Lansbury, Jr.
Science 9 November 2001: 1346-1349.
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Mapping of Contralateral Space in Retinotopic Coordinates by a Parietal Cortical Area in Humans

M. I. Sereno, S. Pitzalis, and A. Martinez
Science 9 November 2001: 1350-1354.
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CNS Synaptogenesis Promoted by Glia-Derived Cholesterol

Daniela H. Mauch, Karl Nägler, Stefan Schumacher, Christian Göritz, Eva-Christina Müller, Albrecht Otto, and Frank W. Pfrieger
Science 9 November 2001: 1354-1357.
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Modulation of Blood Fluke Development in the Liver by Hepatic CD4⁺ Lymphocytes

Stephen J. Davies, Jane L. Grogan, Rebecca B. Blank, K. C. Lim, Richard M. Locksley, and James H. McKerrow
Science 9 November 2001: 1358-1361.
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Defective Antigen Processing in GILT-Free Mice

Maja Maric, Balasubramanian Arunachalam, Uyen T. Phan, Chen Dong, Wendy S. Garrett, Kurt S. Cannon, Christopher Alfonso, Lars Karlsson, Richard A. Flavell, and Peter Cresswell
Science 9 November 2001: 1361-1365.
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Technical Comments

 Drug Addiction and the Hippocampus

Joshua D. Berke, Howard B. Eichenbaum, Stanislav R. Vorel, and Eliot L. Gardner
Science 9 November 2001: 1235.
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