This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Research Assessment in the UK

Jonathan Adams
Science 3 May 2002: 805.
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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 3 May 2002: 935-937.

News of the Week

PEDIATRIC DRUG TRIALS:
Challenge to FDA's Authority May End Up Giving It More

Eliot Marshall
Science 3 May 2002: 820-821.
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PALEOBOTANY:
Fossil Plant Hints How First Flowers Bloomed

Erik Stokstad
Science 3 May 2002: 821.
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WEAPONS LABS:
DOE Delays Hiring of Livermore Head

Andrew Lawler and Charles Seife
Science 3 May 2002: 821-823.
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ALCOHOLISM RESEARCH:
Stressed Mutant Mice Hit the Bottle

Constance Holden
Science 3 May 2002: 823-824.
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POPULATION STUDIES:
U.K.'s Mass Appeal for Disease Insights

Gretchen Vogel
Science 3 May 2002: 824.
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GENOME RESEARCH:
Venter Is Back With Two New Institutes

Eliot Marshall
Science 3 May 2002: 824-825.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
A Single Climate Mover for Antarctica

Richard A. Kerr
Science 3 May 2002: 825-826.
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NATIONAL SECURITY:
Pentagon Proposal Worries Researchers

David Malakoff
Science 3 May 2002: 826.
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RESEARCH FUNDING:
Europe Begins Work on Modest New Agency

Richard Stone
Science 3 May 2002: 826-827.
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PROTEOMICS:
Public-Private Group Maps Out Initiatives

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 3 May 2002: 827.
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SCIENCE INDICATORS:
NSF Report Paints a Global Picture

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 3 May 2002: 829.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ASTRONOMY:
Tuning In the Radio Sky

Robert Irion
Science 3 May 2002: 830-833.
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ASTRONOMY:
Space Communication for the Video Age

Robert Irion
Science 3 May 2002: 831.
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ASTRONOMY:
Seeking Peace in a Radio-Loud World

Robert Irion
Science 3 May 2002: 832.
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ASSYRIA:
Bringing a Long-Lost Library Back to Life

Andrew Lawler
Science 3 May 2002: 834-835.
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEETING:
Humans' Head Start: New Views of Brain Evolution

Ann Gibbons
Science 3 May 2002: 835-837.
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DRUG DELIVERY:
Breaching the Membrane

Joe Alper
Science 3 May 2002: 838-839.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 3 May 2002: 847.
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 Attraction to Orange: Sexiness, Not Gluttony

Anura P. Jayasooriya, Richard S. Weisinger, Harrison S. Weisinger, Michael L. Mathai, Andrew J. Sinclair;, Gregory F. Grether, Kimberly A. Hughes, and F. Helen Rodd
Science 3 May 2002: 847-848.
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 Tree-Ring Chronologies and Climate Variability

Michael E. Mann, Malcolm K. Hughes;, Edward R. Cook, and Jan Esper
Science 3 May 2002: 848-849.
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Books et al.

MATHEMATICS:
A Most Influential Problem Set

Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Science 3 May 2002: 853-854.
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 Browsings

Science 3 May 2002: 853.
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HUMAN BIOLOGY:
Habeas Corpus

Steven Vogel
Science 3 May 2002: 854.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
Damn the Torpedoes. Full Speed Ahead!

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Science 3 May 2002: 851-852.
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Perspectives

CELL BIOLOGY:
The Different Hues of Lipid Rafts

Gerrit van Meer
Science 3 May 2002: 855-857.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Fats, Flies, and Palmitate

Axel Nohturfft and Richard Losick
Science 3 May 2002: 857-858.
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SELF-ASSEMBLY:
Enhanced: Persistence Pays Off

Christopher K. Ober
Science 3 May 2002: 859-861.
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PHYSICS:
Superconducting Qubits--a Major Roadblock Dissolved?

A. J. Leggett
Science 3 May 2002: 861-862.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Subversion of Schwann Cells and the Leper's Bell

Peter J. Brophy
Science 3 May 2002: 862-863.
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Reviews

Planetary Biology--Paleontological, Geological, and Molecular Histories of Life

Steven A. Benner, M. Daniel Caraco, J. Michael Thomson, and Eric A. Gaucher
Science 3 May 2002: 864-868.
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Axonal Self-Destruction and Neurodegeneration

Martin C. Raff, Alan V. Whitmore, and John T. Finn
Science 3 May 2002: 868-871.
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Brevia

 Female Eavesdropping on Male Song Contests in Songbirds

Daniel J. Mennill, Laurene M. Ratcliffe, and Peter T. Boag
Science 3 May 2002: 873.
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Research Articles

A S_N2 Reaction That Avoids Its Deep Potential Energy Minimum

Lipeng Sun, Kihyung Song, and William L. Hase
Science 3 May 2002: 875-878.
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Regulation of SREBP Processing and Membrane Lipid Production by Phospholipids in Drosophila

I. Y. Dobrosotskaya, A. C. Seegmiller, M. S. Brown, J. L. Goldstein, and R. B. Rawson
Science 3 May 2002: 879-883.
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Reports

Direct Synthesis of Long Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Strands

H. W. Zhu, C. L. Xu, D. H. Wu, B. Q. Wei, R. Vajtai, and P. M. Ajayan
Science 3 May 2002: 884-886.
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Manipulating the Quantum State of an Electrical Circuit

D. Vion, A. Aassime, A. Cottet, P. Joyez, H. Pothier, C. Urbina, D. Esteve, and M. H. Devoret
Science 3 May 2002: 886-889.
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Coherent Temporal Oscillations of Macroscopic Quantum States in a Josephson Junction

Yang Yu, Siyuan Han, Xi Chu, Shih-I Chu, and Zhen Wang
Science 3 May 2002: 889-892.
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Ordering of Quantum Dots Using Genetically Engineered Viruses

Seung-Wuk Lee, Chuanbin Mao, Christine E. Flynn, and Angela M. Belcher
Science 3 May 2002: 892-895.
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Interpretation of Recent Southern Hemisphere Climate Change

David W. J. Thompson and Susan Solomon
Science 3 May 2002: 895-899.
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Archaefructaceae, a New Basal Angiosperm Family

Ge Sun, Qiang Ji, David L. Dilcher, Shaolin Zheng, Kevin C. Nixon, and Xinfu Wang
Science 3 May 2002: 899-904.
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Mammal Population Losses and the Extinction Crisis

Gerardo Ceballos and Paul R. Ehrlich
Science 3 May 2002: 904-907.
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Genomewide Analysis of mRNA Processing in Yeast Using Splicing-Specific Microarrays

Tyson A. Clark, Charles W. Sugnet, and Manuel Ares, Jr.
Science 3 May 2002: 907-910.
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Specificity and Stability in Topology of Protein Networks

Sergei Maslov and Kim Sneppen
Science 3 May 2002: 910-913.
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Partitioning of Lipid-Modified Monomeric GFPs into Membrane Microdomains of Live Cells

David A. Zacharias, Jonathan D. Violin, Alexandra C. Newton, and Roger Y. Tsien
Science 3 May 2002: 913-916.
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Large-Scale Transcriptional Activity in Chromosomes 21 and 22 

Philipp Kapranov, Simon E. Cawley, Jorg Drenkow, Stefan Bekiranov, Robert L. Strausberg, Stephen P. A. Fodor, and Thomas R. Gingeras
Science 3 May 2002: 916-919.
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Neurofibromas in NF1: Schwann Cell Origin and Role of Tumor Environment

Yuan Zhu, Pritam Ghosh, Patrick Charnay, Dennis K. Burns, and Luis F. Parada
Science 3 May 2002: 920-922.
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Genomic Instability in Mice Lacking Histone H2AX

Arkady Celeste, Simone Petersen, Peter J. Romanienko, Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo, Hua Tang Chen, Olga A. Sedelnikova, Bernardo Reina-San-Martin, Vincenzo Coppola, Eric Meffre, Michael J. Difilippantonio, Christophe Redon, Duane R. Pilch, Alexandru Olaru, Michael Eckhaus, R. Daniel Camerini-Otero, Lino Tessarollo, Ferenc Livak, Katia Manova, William M. Bonner, Michel C. Nussenzweig, and André Nussenzweig
Science 3 May 2002: 922-927.
Published online 4 April 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1069398] (in Science Express Reports)
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Contact-Dependent Demyelination by Mycobacterium leprae in the Absence of Immune Cells

Anura Rambukkana, George Zanazzi, Nikos Tapinos, and James L. Salzer
Science 3 May 2002: 927-931.
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Enhanced and Delayed Stress-Induced Alcohol Drinking in Mice Lacking Functional CRH1 Receptors

Inge Sillaber, Gerhard Rammes, Stephan Zimmermann, Beatrice Mahal, Walter Zieglgänsberger, Wolfgang Wurst, Florian Holsboer, and Rainer Spanagel
Science 3 May 2002: 931-933.
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