Star Formation

Great Balls of Fire

Linda Rowan and Robert Coontz
Science 4 January 2001: 63.
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News

The Runts of the Cosmic Litter

Robert Irion
Science 4 January 2002: 64-65.
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The Quest for Population III

Robert Irion
Science 4 January 2002: 66-67.
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Reviews

Clustered Star Formation and the Origin of Stellar Masses

Ralph E. Pudritz
Science 4 January 2002: 68-76.
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Isolated Star Formation: From Cloud Formation to Core Collapse

Derek Ward-Thompson
Science 4 January 2002: 76-81.
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The Initial Mass Function of Stars: Evidence for Uniformity in Variable Systems

Pavel Kroupa
Science 4 January 2002: 82-91.
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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Another Year for Science

Donald Kennedy
Science 4 January 2002: 13.
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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

Science 4 January 2002: 153-155.

News of the Week

U.S. BUDGET:
Biomedicine Gets Record Raise as Congress Sets 2002 Spending

David Malakoff
Science 4 January 2002: 24-25.
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XENOTRANSPLANTATION:
Cloned Pigs May Help Overcome Rejection

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 4 January 2002: 25-27.
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ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE:
Livestock Feed Ban Preserves Drugs' Power

Dan Ferber
Science 4 January 2002: 27-28.
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AGING RESEARCH:
Cancer-Stalling System Accelerates Aging

Evelyn Strauss
Science 4 January 2002: 28-29.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Reducing Uncertainties of Global Warming

Richard A. Kerr
Science 4 January 2002: 29-31.
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HARVARD DISAPPEARANCE:
Missing Biologist Found Dead in River

Josh Gewolb
Science 4 January 2002: 31.
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NUCLEAR SCIENCE:
U.S. Breeder Reactor Runs Out of Lives

Robert F. Service
Science 4 January 2002: 31.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Planetary Science's Defining Moment

Andrew Lawler
Science 4 January 2002: 32-37.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Lab Rivalry Spices Up Solar System Exploration

Andrew Lawler
Science 4 January 2002: 33.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Researchers Fear Merger Could Muffle Their Voice

Dennis Normile
Science 4 January 2002: 37-38.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Tight Budget Makes for an Uncertain Future

Michael Balter
Science 4 January 2002: 38.
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SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION:
Technology Is Essential, But It's a Tough Sell

Andrew Lawler
Science 4 January 2002: 39.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 4 January 2002: 43.
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 Questioning CDC's "Select Agent" Criteria

Joshua Fierer and Theo Kirkland
Science 4 January 2002: 43.
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 HHMI's Attention to Wiley's Lab Staff

Thomas R. Cech
Science 4 January 2002: 43.
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 A Unified Definition of Biosecurity

Laura A. Meyerson, Jamie K. Reaser;, and Christopher F. Chyba
Science 4 January 2002: 44.
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 Graduate Student Unions

Martin J. Neumann
Science 4 January 2002: 44.
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 Successes of Newborn Screening Programs

Anne Marie Comeau, Roger B. Eaton;, and Eliot Marshall
Science 4 January 2002: 44-45.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ART:
Cultural Traces of a Vital Fluid

Kerstin Schmidt
Science 4 January 2002: 49-50.
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EVOLUTION:
A Grand Old Synthesizer's Overview

Menno Schilthuizen
Science 4 January 2002: 50.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
Mosquitoes Bite More Than Once

W. F. Bynum
Science 4 January 2002: 47-48.
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Perspectives

COSMOLOGY:
How the Cosmic Dark Age Ended

Martin J. Rees
Science 4 January 2002: 51-53.
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DEVELOPMENT:
Carbohydrate Recognition in Spermatogenesis

Takashi Muramatsu
Science 4 January 2002: 53-54.
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AGING:
Dietary Advice on Q

Marc Tatar and David M. Rand
Science 4 January 2002: 54-55.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Caught Offside

Tim Elliott
Science 4 January 2002: 55-57.
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SURFACE SCIENCE:
Water on a Metal Surface

Dietrich Menzel
Science 4 January 2002: 58-59.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
Prime Time for Cellulose

Steve M. Read and Tony Bacic
Science 4 January 2002: 59-60.
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Brevia

 Fluorescent Signaling in Parrots

Kathryn E. Arnold, Ian P. F. Owens, and N. Justin Marshall
Science 4 January 2002: 92.
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Research Article

The Formation of the First Star in the Universe

Tom Abel, Greg L. Bryan, and Michael L. Norman
Science 4 January 2002: 93-98.
Published online 15 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1063991] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Partial Dissociation of Water on Ru(0001)

Peter J. Feibelman
Science 4 January 2002: 99-102.
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Electrically Driven Single-Photon Source

Zhiliang Yuan, Beata E. Kardynal, R. Mark Stevenson, Andrew J. Shields, Charlene J. Lobo, Ken Cooper, Neil S. Beattie, David A. Ritchie, and Michael Pepper
Science 4 January 2002: 102-105.
Published online 13 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066790] (in Science Express Reports)
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A One-Step Conversion of Benzene to Phenol with a Palladium Membrane

Shu-ichi Niwa, Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy, Jalajakumari Nair, Anuj Raj, Naotsugu Itoh, Hiroshi Shoji, Takemi Namba, and Fujio Mizukami
Science 4 January 2002: 105-107.
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Constraints on Melt Movement Beneath the East Pacific Rise From ²³⁰Th-²³⁸U Disequilibrium

Haibo Zou, Alan Zindler, and Yaoling Niu
Science 4 January 2002: 107-110.
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Formation of Recent Martian Debris Flows by Melting of Near-Surface Ground Ice at High Obliquity

F. Costard, F. Forget, N. Mangold, and J. P. Peulvast
Science 4 January 2002: 110-113.
Published online 29 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066698] (in Science Express Reports)
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Quantifying Uncertainties in Climate System Properties with the Use of Recent Climate Observations

Chris E. Forest, Peter H. Stone, Andrei P. Sokolov, Myles R. Allen, and Mort D. Webster
Science 4 January 2002: 113-117.
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Intracellular Iron Minerals in a Dissimilatory Iron-Reducing Bacterium

Susan Glasauer, Sean Langley, and Terry J. Beveridge
Science 4 January 2002: 117-119.
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Extension of Life-Span in Caenorhabditis elegans by a Diet Lacking Coenzyme Q

Pamela L. Larsen and Catherine F. Clarke
Science 4 January 2002: 120-123.
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Germ Cell Survival Through Carbohydrate-Mediated Interaction with Sertoli Cells

Tomoya O. Akama, Hiroaki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Sugihara, Sonoko Narisawa, Chikara Ohyama, Shin-Ichiro Nishimura, Deborah A. O'Brien, Kelley W. Moremen, José Luis Millán, and Michiko N. Fukuda
Science 4 January 2002: 124-127.
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Combined Functional Genomic Maps of the C. elegans DNA Damage Response

Simon J. Boulton, Anton Gartner, Jérôme Reboul, Philippe Vaglio, Nick Dyson, David E. Hill, and Marc Vidal
Science 4 January 2002: 127-131.
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Construction and Analysis of a Human-Chimpanzee Comparative Clone Map

Asao Fujiyama, Hidemi Watanabe, Atsushi Toyoda, Todd D. Taylor, Takehiko Itoh, Shih-Feng Tsai, Hong-Seog Park, Marie-Laure Yaspo, Hans Lehrach, Zhu Chen, Gang Fu, Naruya Saitou, Kazutoyo Osoegawa, Pieter J. de Jong, Yumiko Suto, Masahira Hattori, and Yoshiyuki Sakaki
Science 4 January 2002: 131-134.
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Nucleotide Variation Along the Drosophila melanogaster Fourth Chromosome

Wen Wang, Kevin Thornton, Andrew Berry, and Manyuan Long
Science 4 January 2002: 134-137.
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Role of Cell-Specific SpoIIIE Assembly in Polarity of DNA Transfer

Marc D. Sharp and Kit Pogliano
Science 4 January 2002: 137-139.
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Tumstatin, an Endothelial Cell-Specific Inhibitor of Protein Synthesis

Yohei Maeshima, Akulapalli Sudhakar, Julie C. Lively, Kohjiro Ueki, Surender Kharbanda, C. Ronald Kahn, Nahum Sonenberg, Richard O. Hynes, and Raghu Kalluri
Science 4 January 2002: 140-143.
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Mediation of Hippocampal Mossy Fiber Long-Term Potentiation by Presynaptic I_h Channels

Jack Mellor, Roger A. Nicoll, and Dietmar Schmitz
Science 4 January 2002: 143-147.
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Sitosterol--glucoside as Primer for Cellulose Synthesis in Plants

Liangcai Peng, Yasushi Kawagoe, Pat Hogan, and Deborah Delmer
Science 4 January 2002: 147-150.
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Technical Comments

 The Isomap Algorithm and Topological Stability

Mukund Balasubramanian, Eric L. Schwartz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Vin de Silva, and John C. Langford
Science 4 January 2002: 7.
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