This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Human Subjects in Weapons Research

Arthur L. Caplan and Pamela Sankar
Science 1 November 2002: 923.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 1 November 2002: 925.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 1 November 2002: 929.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 1 November 2002: 1045-1047.

News of the Week

AMPHIBIAN DECLINES:
Conflict Brewing Over Herbicide's Link to Frog Deformities

Rebecca Renner
Science 1 November 2002: 938-939.
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FISHERIES SCIENCE:
Scientists Recommend Ban on North Sea Cod

David Malakoff and Richard Stone
Science 1 November 2002: 939.
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ASTRONOMY:
Iron Deficiency Reveals Nearly Pristine Star

Robert Irion
Science 1 November 2002: 939-941.
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HUMAN GENOME:
HapMap Launched With Pledges of $100 Million

Jennifer Couzin
Science 1 November 2002: 941-942.
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WOMEN'S HEALTH:
More Questions About Hormone Replacement

Jennifer Couzin and Martin Enserink
Science 1 November 2002: 942.
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
Going Head-to-Head Over Boas's Data

Constance Holden
Science 1 November 2002: 942-943.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Placentas May Nourish Complexity Studies

Virginia Morell
Science 1 November 2002: 945.
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PFIESTERIA DEBATE:
Is Sugary Toxin the Smoking Gun?

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 1 November 2002: 945-946.
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION:
NATO Ordered to Cut Science Program

Richard Stone
Science 1 November 2002: 946-947.
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DNA SEQUENCING:
Venter's Next Goal: 1000 Human Genomes

Rebecca Spieler Trager
Science 1 November 2002: 947.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

STRUCTURAL GENOMICS:
Tapping DNA for Structures Produces a Trickle

Robert F. Service
Science 1 November 2002: 948-950.
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STRUCTURAL GENOMICS:
Big Biology Without the Big Commotion

Robert F. Service
Science 1 November 2002: 950.
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JAPAN:
Postdocs Get Primer on How to Survive Abroad

Dennis Normile and Andrew Lawler
Science 1 November 2002: 951.
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NUCLEAR TRAFFICKING:
Crime and (Puny) Punishment

Gretchen Vogel
Science 1 November 2002: 952-953.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Evo-Devo Enthusiasts Get Down to Details

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 1 November 2002: 953-955.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEETING:
A Bonanza of Bones

Erik Stokstad
Science 1 November 2002: 955-957.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 1 November 2002: 961.
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 Retraction

Zhenan Bao, Bertram Batlogg, Steffen Berg, Ananth Dodabalapur, Robert C. Haddon, Harold Hwang, Christian Kloc, Hong Meng, and J. Hendrik Schön
Science 1 November 2002: 961.
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 The Origin of a Most Contentious Rock

J. Michael Palin;, Christopher M. Fedo, and Martin J. Whitehouse
Science 1 November 2002: 961-962.
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 The Search for an Amyloid Solution

Stephen R. Robinson, Glenda M. Bishop;, Dennis J. Selkoe, and John Hardy
Science 1 November 2002: 962-964.
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Books et al.

MATHEMATICS:
An Inclusive Perspective

Helaine Selin
Science 1 November 2002: 969-970.
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
A Transparent Foundation?

Michael John Gorman
Science 1 November 2002: 970-971.
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PHILOSOPHY:
Empiricism, Realism, and Religion

Paul Thagard
Science 1 November 2002: 971.
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 Books Received

Science 1 November 2002: 971.

Essays on Science and Society

PORTRAITS OF SCIENCE:
Proof, Amazement, and the Unexpected

Reviel Netz
Science 1 November 2002: 967-968.
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
On the Crest of a Population Wave

Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, Veijo Kaitala, and Nils Chr. Stenseth
Science 1 November 2002: 973-974.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Fishing for Microbes

James M. Gossett
Science 1 November 2002: 974-975.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhanced: A Synchrotron Look at Steel

Matthias Militzer
Science 1 November 2002: 975-976.
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MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Molecular "Ghosts"

Jonathan W. Steed
Science 1 November 2002: 976-977.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Versatile Defensins

Tomas Ganz
Science 1 November 2002: 977-979.
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AURORAL AND SPACE PHYSICS:
The Heavens in a Pile of Sand

Mervyn P. Freeman and Nicholas W. Watkins
Science 1 November 2002: 979-980.
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Review

Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability: Energy for a Greenhouse Planet

Martin I. Hoffert, Ken Caldeira, Gregory Benford, David R. Criswell, Christopher Green, Howard Herzog, Atul K. Jain, Haroon S. Kheshgi, Klaus S. Lackner, John S. Lewis, H. Douglas Lightfoot, Wallace Manheimer, John C. Mankins, Michael E. Mauel, L. John Perkins, Michael E. Schlesinger, Tyler Volk, and Tom M. L. Wigley
Science 1 November 2002: 981-987.
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Brevia

 Estimating the Size of the World's Threatened Flora

Nigel C. A. Pitman and Peter M. Jørgensen
Science 1 November 2002: 989.
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Research Articles

Cell Dynamics During Somite Boundary Formation Revealed by Time-Lapse Analysis

Paul M. Kulesa and Scott E. Fraser
Science 1 November 2002: 991-995.
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Contribution of Human -Defensin 1, 2, and 3 to the Anti-HIV-1 Activity of CD8 Antiviral Factor

Linqi Zhang, Wenjie Yu, Tian He, Jian Yu, Rebecca E. Caffrey, Enrique A. Dalmasso, Siyu Fu, Thang Pham, Jianfeng Mei, Jaclyn J. Ho, Wenyong Zhang, Peter Lopez, and David D. Ho
Science 1 November 2002: 995-1000.
Published online 26 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076185] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Guest Transport in a Nonporous Organic Solid via Dynamic van der Waals Cooperativity

Jerry L. Atwood, Leonard J. Barbour, Agoston Jerga, and Brandi L. Schottel
Science 1 November 2002: 1000-1002.
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Grain Nucleation and Growth During Phase Transformations

S. E. Offerman, N. H. van Dijk, J. Sietsma, S. Grigull, E. M. Lauridsen, L. Margulies, H. F. Poulsen, M. Th. Rekveldt, and S. van der Zwaag
Science 1 November 2002: 1003-1005.
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Colloidosomes: Selectively Permeable Capsules Composed of Colloidal Particles

A. D. Dinsmore, Ming F. Hsu, M. G. Nikolaides, Manuel Marquez, A. R. Bausch, and D. A. Weitz
Science 1 November 2002: 1006-1009.
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Detection and Monitoring of Ongoing Aseismic Slip in the Tokai Region, Central Japan

Shinzaburo Ozawa, Makoto Murakami, Masaru Kaidzu, Takashi Tada, Takeshi Sagiya, Yuki Hatanaka, Hiroshi Yarai, and Takuya Nishimura
Science 1 November 2002: 1009-1012.
Published online 3 October 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076780] (in Science Express Reports)
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Stronger Constraints on the Anthropogenic Indirect Aerosol Effect

Ulrike Lohmann and Glen Lesins
Science 1 November 2002: 1012-1015.
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Climate Change and Latitudinal Patterns of Intertidal Thermal Stress

Brian Helmuth, Christopher D. G. Harley, Patricia M. Halpin, Michael O'Donnell, Gretchen E. Hofmann, and Carol A. Blanchette
Science 1 November 2002: 1015-1017.
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Independent Origins and Rapid Evolution of the Placenta in the Fish Genus Poeciliopsis

David N. Reznick, Mariana Mateos, and Mark S. Springer
Science 1 November 2002: 1018-1020.
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Waves of Larch Budmoth Outbreaks in the European Alps

Ottar N. Bjørnstad, Mikko Peltonen, Andrew M. Liebhold, and Werner Baltensweiler
Science 1 November 2002: 1020-1023.
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Microbial Dehalorespiration with 1,1,1-Trichloroethane

Baolin Sun, Benjamin M. Griffin, Héctor L. Ayala-del-Río, Syed A. Hashsham, and James M. Tiedje
Science 1 November 2002: 1023-1025.
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Toll-Like Receptor 4-Dependent Activation of Dendritic Cells by -Defensin 2 

Arya Biragyn, Pier Adelchi Ruffini, Cynthia A. Leifer, Elena Klyushnenkova, Alexander Shakhov, Oleg Chertov, Aiko K. Shirakawa, Joshua M. Farber, David M. Segal, Joost J. Oppenheim, and Larry W. Kwak
Science 1 November 2002: 1025-1029.
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Cytoprotective Role of Ca²⁺- Activated K⁺ Channels in the Cardiac Inner Mitochondrial Membrane

Wenhong Xu, Yongge Liu, Sheng Wang, Todd McDonald, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Agnieszka Sidor, and Brian O'Rourke
Science 1 November 2002: 1029-1033.
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Hijacking of Host Cell IKK Signalosomes by the Transforming Parasite Theileria

Volker T. Heussler, Sven Rottenberg, Rebekka Schwab, Peter Küenzi, Paula C. Fernandez, Susan McKellar, Brian Shiels, Zhijian J. Chen, Kim Orth, David Wallach, and Dirk A. E. Dobbelaere
Science 1 November 2002: 1033-1036.
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RNA Polymerase II Transcription in Murine Cells Lacking the TATA Binding Protein

Igor Martianov, Stephane Viville, and Irwin Davidson
Science 1 November 2002: 1036-1039.
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Role of Histone H3 Lysine 27 Methylation in Polycomb-Group Silencing

Ru Cao, Liangjun Wang, Hengbin Wang, Li Xia, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst, Richard S. Jones, and Yi Zhang
Science 1 November 2002: 1039-1043.
Published online 26 September 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1076997] (in Science Express Reports)
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Technical Comments

 Origin and Significance of Archean Quartzose Rocks at Akilia, Greenland

S. J. Mojzsis, T. M. Harrison, Clark R. L. Friend, Allen P. Nutman, Victoria C. Bennett, Christopher M. Fedo, and Martin J. Whitehouse
Science 1 November 2002: 917.
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