This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Climate Change and Bangladesh

Saleemul Huq
Science 23 November 2001: 1617.
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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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 Gordon Research Conferences

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News of the Week

HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS:
Shock Wave May Have Knocked Out Japanese Neutrino Detector

Dennis Normile
Science 23 November 2001: 1630-1631.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
European Programs Face Another Squeeze

Daniel Clery
Science 23 November 2001: 1631.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Insider Takes Over at NASA

Andrew Lawler
Science 23 November 2001: 1631-1633.
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ASTRONOMY:
Dusty Young Star Gets New Birth Mates

Robert Irion
Science 23 November 2001: 1633-1634.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Questions Arise Over Second Japanese Site

Dennis Normile
Science 23 November 2001: 1634.
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MICROBIAL GENOMES:
Sequences Reveal Borrowed Genes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 23 November 2001: 1634-1635.
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SELF-ASSEMBLING MATERIALS:
Coated Nanofibers Copy What's Bred in the Bone

Robert F. Service
Science 23 November 2001: 1635-1637.
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ANIMAL WELFARE:
Congress Clears Way for Rodent Rules

David Malakoff
Science 23 November 2001: 1637.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GENE THERAPY:
Safer and Virus-Free?

Dan Ferber
Science 23 November 2001: 1638-1642.
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GENE THERAPY:
Repair Kits for Faulty Genes

Dan Ferber
Science 23 November 2001: 1639.
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GENE THERAPY:
Viral Vectors Still Pack Surprises

Eliot Marshall
Science 23 November 2001: 1640.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARBURGER:
Terrorism, Money, Contacts Top Science Adviser's Agenda

Science 23 November 2001: 1642-1645.
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AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MARBURGER:
"Explain to Me What I'm Not Getting"

David Malakoff
Science 27 November 2001: 1645.
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WORLD TRADE CENTER:
After the Fall

Robert Koenig
Science 23 November 2001: 1646-1647.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 23 November 2001: 1651.
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 No Prize for the Wrights

Robert Langridge
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 NAS Cloning Hearing Disappoints Participants

David Magnus and Arthur Caplan
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 Amplifying Importance of New Research in Peru

Daniel H. Sandweiss, Michael E. Moseley;, Jonathan Haas, and Winifred Creamer
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
A Martian's Chronicles

Gregg Herken
Science 23 November 2001: 1657-1658.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Certain Diseases, Uncertain Explanations

David Morens
Science 23 November 2001: 1658-1659.
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GENETICS:
Also Sprach Homo mutans

Norman A. Johnson
Science 23 November 2001: 1659.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Aquaculture--A Gateway for Exotic Species

Rosamond L. Naylor, Susan L. Williams, and Donald R. Strong
Science 23 November 2001: 1655-1656.
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Perspectives

STRUCTURE:
Action at the Y-branch

Alan Weeds and Sharon Yeoh
Science 23 November 2001: 1660-1661.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Encounters in Space

Benjamin Geiger
Science 23 November 2001: 1661-1663.
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EPIDEMIOLOGY:
Predicting the Unpredictable

Graham F. Medley
Science 23 November 2001: 1663-1664.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Putting Metals into Polymers

Ian Manners
Science 23 November 2001: 1664-1666.
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ATOMIC CLOCKS:
Raising the Standards

Patrick Gill
Science 23 November 2001: 1666-1668.
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GEOLOGY:
North American Devastation or Global Cataclysm?

Tim Flannery
Science 23 November 2001: 1668-1669.
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GENOMICS:
Genetic Association by Whole-Genome Analysis?

Pui-Yan Kwok
Science 23 November 2001: 1669-1670.
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 RETROSPECTIVE:
Jeffrey Isner, 1947-2001

Judah Folkman
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Review

Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau

Paul Tapponnier, Xu Zhiqin, Françoise Roger, Bertrand Meyer, Nicolas Arnaud, Gérard Wittlinger, and Yang Jingsui
Science 23 November 2001: 1671-1677.
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Research Article

Crystal Structure of Arp2/3 Complex

Robert C. Robinson, Kirsi Turbedsky, Donald A. Kaiser, Jean-Baptiste Marchand, Henry N. Higgs, Senyon Choe, and Thomas D. Pollard
Science 23 November 2001: 1679-1684.
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Reports

Self-Assembly and Mineralization of Peptide-Amphiphile Nanofibers

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink, Elia Beniash, and Samuel I. Stupp
Science 23 November 2001: 1684-1688.
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Factors Controlling Long- and Short-Term Sequestration of Atmospheric CO₂ in a Mid-latitude Forest

Carol C. Barford, Steven C. Wofsy, Michael L. Goulden, J. William Munger, Elizabeth Hammond Pyle, Shawn P. Urbanski, Lucy Hutyra, Scott R. Saleska, David Fitzjarrald, and Kathleen Moore
Science 23 November 2001: 1688-1691.
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A Near-Earth Asteroid Population Estimate from the LINEAR Survey

Joseph Scott Stuart
Science 23 November 2001: 1691-1693.
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Dynamical Spreading of Asteroid Families by the Yarkovsky Effect

William F. Bottke, Jr., David Vokrouhlický, Miroslav Bro, David Nesvorný, and Alessandro Morbidelli
Science 23 November 2001: 1693-1696.
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Collisions and Gravitational Reaccumulation: Forming Asteroid Families and Satellites

Patrick Michel, Willy Benz, Paolo Tanga, and Derek C. Richardson
Science 23 November 2001: 1696-1700.
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Indication of Global Deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary by New Zealand Fern Spike

Vivi Vajda, J. Ian Raine, and Christopher J. Hollis
Science 23 November 2001: 1700-1702.
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Tree Diversity in Tropical Rain Forests: A Validation of the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis

Jean-François Molino and Daniel Sabatier
Science 23 November 2001: 1702-1704.
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Identification of Ubiquitin Ligases Required for Skeletal Muscle Atrophy

Sue C. Bodine, Esther Latres, Susanne Baumhueter, Venus K.-M. Lai, Lorna Nunez, Brian A. Clarke, William T. Poueymirou, Frank J. Panaro, Erqian Na, Kumar Dharmarajan, Zhen-Qiang Pan, David M. Valenzuela, Thomas M. DeChiara, Trevor N. Stitt, George D. Yancopoulos, and David J. Glass
Science 23 November 2001: 1704-1708.
Published online 25 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065874] (in Science Express Reports)
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Taking Cell-Matrix Adhesions to the Third Dimension

Edna Cukierman, Roumen Pankov, Daron R. Stevens, and Kenneth M. Yamada
Science 23 November 2001: 1708-1712.
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ATR and ATRIP: Partners in Checkpoint Signaling

David Cortez, Saritha Guntuku, Jun Qin, and Stephen J. Elledge
Science 23 November 2001: 1713-1716.
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Two Essential DNA Polymerases at the Bacterial Replication Fork

Etienne Dervyn, Catherine Suski, Richard Daniel, Claude Bruand, Jérome Chapuis, Jeff Errington, Laurent Jannière, and S. Dusko Ehrlich
Science 23 November 2001: 1716-1719.
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Blocks of Limited Haplotype Diversity Revealed by High-Resolution Scanning of Human Chromosome 21 

Nila Patil, Anthony J. Berno, David A. Hinds, Wade A. Barrett, Jigna M. Doshi, Coleen R. Hacker, Curtis R. Kautzer, Danny H. Lee, Claire Marjoribanks, David P. McDonough, Bich T. N. Nguyen, Michael C. Norris, John B. Sheehan, Naiping Shen, David Stern, Renee P. Stokowski, Daryl J. Thomas, Mark O. Trulson, Kanan R. Vyas, Kelly A. Frazer, Stephen P. A. Fodor, and David R. Cox
Science 23 November 2001: 1719-1723.
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A Genomic-Systems Biology Map for Cardiovascular Function

Monika Stoll, Allen W. Cowley, Jr., Peter J. Tonellato, Andrew S. Greene, Mary L. Kaldunski, Richard J. Roman, Pierre Dumas, Nicholas J. Schork, Zhitao Wang, and Howard J. Jacob
Science 23 November 2001: 1723-1726.
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Estimation of Epidemic Size and Incubation Time Based on Age Characteristics of vCJD in the United Kingdom

Alain-Jacques Valleron, Pierre-Yves Boelle, Robert Will, and Jean-Yves Cesbron
Science 23 November 2001: 1726-1728.
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Predictability of the UK Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Epidemic

Jerome N. Huillard d'Aignaux, Simon N. Cousens, and Peter G. Smith
Science 23 November 2001: 1729-1731.
Published online 25 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064748] (in Science Express Reports)
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The Influence of the Proinflammatory Cytokine, Osteopontin, on Autoimmune Demyelinating Disease

Dorothée Chabas, Sergio E. Baranzini, Dennis Mitchell, Claude C. A. Bernard, Susan R. Rittling, David T. Denhardt, Raymond A. Sobel, Christopher Lock, Marcela Karpuj, Rosetta Pedotti, Renu Heller, Jorge R. Oksenberg, and Lawrence Steinman
Science 23 November 2001: 1731-1735.
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Priming of Memory But Not Effector CD8 T Cells by a Killed Bacterial Vaccine

Gregoire Lauvau, Sujata Vijh, Philip Kong, Tiffany Horng, Kristen Kerksiek, Natalya Serbina, Roman A. Tuma, and Eric G. Pamer
Science 23 November 2001: 1735-1739.
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