This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Next Steps in the Schön Affair

Donald Kennedy
Science 18 October 2002: 495.
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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 18 October 2002: 625-627.

News of the Week

GENE THERAPY:
What to Do When Clear Success Comes With an Unclear Risk?

Eliot Marshall
Science 18 October 2002: 510-511.
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NSF BUDGET:
Panel Prescribes Study to Treat Growing Pains

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 18 October 2002: 511.
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NASA BUDGET:
Plans for Pluto and Hubble Gain in Congress

Andrew Lawler
Science 18 October 2002: 511-513.
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BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WARFARE:
Secret Weapons Tests' Details Revealed

Martin Enserink
Science 18 October 2002: 513-514.
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POWER TOOLS:
Into Painless Piercing? Try It With Microwaves

Mark Sincell
Science 18 October 2002: 514-515.
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FISHERIES SCIENCE:
Miscue Raises Doubts About Survey Data

David Malakoff
Science 18 October 2002: 515.
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SWEDISH RESEARCH:
New Stem Cell Fund Raises Hackles

Gretchen Vogel
Science 18 October 2002: 517.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GLACIOLOGY:
Ice Man: Lonnie Thompson Scales the Peaks for Science

Kevin Krajick
Science 18 October 2002: 518-522.
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CANCER DRUGS:
Smart Weapons Prove Tough to Design

Jennifer Couzin
Science 18 October 2002: 522-525.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE:
Tiny Worm Takes a Star Turn

Jean Marx
Science 18 October 2002: 526.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS:
Neutrino Traps and X-ray Eyes

Charles Seife
Science 18 October 2002: 527.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY:
Mastering Macromolecules

Adrian Cho and Dennis Normile
Science 18 October 2002: 527-528.
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NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS:
Lab-Based Researchers Earn Prize in Economics

Constance Holden
Science 18 October 2002: 528.
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SECURITY AND SCIENCE:
Researchers See Progress in Finding the Right Balance

David Malakoff
Science 18 October 2002: 529.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 18 October 2002: 539.
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 Standards for Microarray Data

Catherine A. Ball, Gavin Sherlock, Helen Parkinson, Philippe Rocca-Sera, Catherine Brooksbank, Helen C. Causton, Duccio Cavalieri, Terry Gaasterland, Pascal Hingamp, Frank Holstege, Martin Ringwald, Paul Spellman, Christian J. Stoeckert, Jr., Jason E. Stewart, Ronald Taylor, Alvis Brazma, and John Quackenbush
Science 18 October 2002: 539.
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 Energy Expenditure and Treating Obesity

Alessandro Laviano, Michael M. Meguid, Filippo Rossi-Fanelli;, Paul Cohen, Makoto Miyazaki, Lisa C. Hudgins, Nicholas D. Socci, James M. Ntambi, Aaron Hagge-Greenberg, Wolfgang Liedtke, Alexander A. Soukas, Ratnendra Sharma, and Jeffrey M. Friedman
Science 18 October 2002: 539-541.
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 Chemical Emissions: An Ongoing Issue

Alan H. Lockwood;, Martyn Poliakoff, J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Trevor R. Farren, and Paul T. Anastas
Science 18 October 2002: 541-542.
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Books et al.

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR:
Song Science from Physiology to Fitness

Darryl T. Gwynne
Science 18 October 2002: 545-546.
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ECOLOGY:
A Herpetological Treasure Trove

Tim Halliday
Science 18 October 2002: 546.
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 Books Received

Science 18 October 2002: 546.

Policy Forum

NEUTRON SCATTERING:
Enhanced: The Case for Neutron Sources

B. Keimer, E. Sackmann, and P. J. Withers
Science 18 October 2002: 543.
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Perspectives

BIOMINERALIZATION:
The Diatom Glasshouse

Richard Wetherbee
Science 18 October 2002: 547.
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PALEOCLIMATE:
Kilimanjaro's Secrets Revealed

Françoise Gasse
Science 18 October 2002: 548-549.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
New Proteases in a Ubiquitin Stew

Mark Hochstrasser
Science 18 October 2002: 549-552.
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ENZYMOLOGY:
A Trio of Transition Metals in Anaerobic CO₂ Fixation

John W. Peters
Science 18 October 2002: 552-553.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Does Grammar Start Where Statistics Stop?

Mark S. Seidenberg, Maryellen C. MacDonald, and Jenny R. Saffran
Science 18 October 2002: 553-554.
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FERROMAGNETISM:
Vortex Cores--Smaller Than Small

J. Miltat and A. Thiaville
Science 18 October 2002: 555.
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Tech.Sight

PHAGE DISPLAY:
Affinity Selection from Biological Libraries

James F. Smothers, Steven Henikoff, and Paul Carter
Science 18 October 2002: 621-622.
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Review

NEUROSCIENCE:
New Insights into Neuron-Glia Communication

R. Douglas Fields and Beth Stevens-Graham
Science 18 October 2002: 556-562.
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Brevia

 El Niño Events Recorded by Stalagmite Carbon Isotopes

Amy Frappier, Dork Sahagian, Luis A. González, and Scott J. Carpenter
Science 18 October 2002: 565.
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Research Articles

A Ni-Fe-Cu Center in a Bifunctional Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase/ Acetyl-CoA Synthase

Tzanko I. Doukov, Tina M. Iverson, Javier Seravalli, Stephen W. Ragsdale, and Catherine L. Drennan
Science 18 October 2002: 567-572.
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Shadows Cast by Retinal Blood Vessels Mapped in Primary Visual Cortex

Daniel L. Adams and Jonathan C. Horton
Science 18 October 2002: 572-576.
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Reports

Direct Observation of Internal Spin Structure of Magnetic Vortex Cores

A. Wachowiak, J. Wiebe, M. Bode, O. Pietzsch, M. Morgenstern, and R. Wiesendanger
Science 18 October 2002: 577-580.
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Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration

Todd Thorsen, Sebastian J. Maerkl, and Stephen R. Quake
Science 18 October 2002: 580-584.
Published online 26 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076996] (in Science Express Reports)
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Self-Assembly of Highly Phosphorylated Silaffins and Their Function in Biosilica Morphogenesis

Nils Kröger, Sonja Lorenz, Eike Brunner, and Manfred Sumper
Science 18 October 2002: 584-586.
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The Microwave Drill

E. Jerby, V. Dikhtyar, O. Aktushev, and U. Grosglick
Science 18 October 2002: 587-589.
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Kilimanjaro Ice Core Records: Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in Tropical Africa

Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Mary E. Davis, Keith A. Henderson, Henry H. Brecher, Victor S. Zagorodnov, Tracy A. Mashiotta, Ping-Nan Lin, Vladimir N. Mikhalenko, Douglas R. Hardy, and Jürg Beer
Science 18 October 2002: 589-593.
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A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites

S. J. Peale and Man Hoi Lee
Science 18 October 2002: 593-597.
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"Stemness": Transcriptional Profiling of Embryonic and Adult Stem Cells

Miguel Ramalho-Santos, Soonsang Yoon, Yumi Matsuzaki, Richard C. Mulligan, and Douglas A. Melton
Science 18 October 2002: 597-600.
Published online 12 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072530] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Stem Cell Molecular Signature

Natalia B. Ivanova, John T. Dimos, Christoph Schaniel, Jason A. Hackney, Kateri A. Moore, and Ihor R. Lemischka
Science 18 October 2002: 601-604.
Published online 12 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1073823] (in Science Express Reports)
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Signal-Driven Computations in Speech Processing

Marcela Peña, Luca L. Bonatti, Marina Nespor, and Jacques Mehler
Science 18 October 2002: 604-607.
Published online 29 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1072901] (in Science Express Reports)
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Role of Predicted Metalloprotease Motif of Jab1/Csn5 in Cleavage of Nedd8 from Cul1

Gregory A. Cope, Greg S. B. Suh, L. Aravind, Sylvia E. Schwarz, S. Lawrence Zipursky, Eugene V. Koonin, and Raymond J. Deshaies
Science 18 October 2002: 608-611.
Published online 15 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1075901] (in Science Express Reports)
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Role of Rpn11 Metalloprotease in Deubiquitination and Degradation by the 26S Proteasome

Rati Verma, L. Aravind, Robert Oania, W. Hayes McDonald, John R. Yates, III, Eugene V. Koonin, and Raymond J. Deshaies
Science 18 October 2002: 611-615.
Published online 15 August 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1075898] (in Science Express Reports)
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Impacts of Soil Faunal Community Composition on Model Grassland Ecosystems

M. A. Bradford, T. H. Jones, R. D. Bardgett, H. I. J. Black, B. Boag, M. Bonkowski, R. Cook, T. Eggers, A. C. Gange, S. J. Grayston, E. Kandeler, A. E. McCaig, J. E. Newington, J. I. Prosser, H. Setälä, P. L. Staddon, G. M. Tordoff, D. Tscherko, and J. H. Lawton
Science 18 October 2002: 615-618.
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