This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Animal Rights Pressure on Scientists

Steven L. Teitelbaum
Science 22 November 2002: 1515.
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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 22 November 2002: 1637-1638.

News of the Week

SCIENCE PHILANTHROPY:
Hughes Cuts Researcher Grants As Endowment Takes a Hit

David Malakoff
Science 22 November 2002: 1530-1531.
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U.K. RESEARCH:
Courting Universities Break Off Engagement

Keri Page
Science 22 November 2002: 1531.
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RESEARCH MISCONDUCT:
German Inquiry Finds Flaws, Not Fraud

Adam Bostanci and Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 November 2002: 1531-1533.
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HOMELAND SECURITY:
New Agency Contains Strong Science Arm

David Malakoff
Science 22 November 2002: 1534.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
TESLA Accelerates; ESS Falls Back

Gretchen Vogel
Science 22 November 2002: 1534-1535.
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BANGLADESH:
Agricultural Pumping Linked to Arsenic

Erik Stokstad
Science 22 November 2002: 1535-1537.
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ENERGY RESEARCH:
Industry Invests Big in Stanford Project

Andrew Lawler
Science 22 November 2002: 1537.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION:
Congress OK's Budget Doubling, At Last

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 22 November 2002: 1537-1538.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Chaos Reigns in RNA Transcription

Jennifer Couzin
Science 22 November 2002: 1538.
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EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY:
Bacteria Shared Photosynthesis Genes

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 November 2002: 1538-1539.
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WILDLIFE RESEARCH:
New Rules Ease Specimen Shipments

Philipp Weis
Science 22 November 2002: 1539.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

CANINE EVOLUTION:
A Shaggy Dog History

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 22 November 2002: 1540-1542.
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PROFILE: HUSSAIN AL-SHAHRISTANI:
The Very Model of a Modern Iraqi Dissident

Andrew Watson
Science 22 November 2002: 1543-1544.
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS:
Accelerator Aims to Find the Source of All Elements

Charles Seife
Science 22 November 2002: 1544-1547.
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EVOLUTION:
A Trigger for the Cambrian Explosion?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 22 November 2002: 1547.
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SCIENCE AND SECURITY:
Entering the Twilight Zone Of What Material to Censor

Martin Enserink
Science 22 November 2002: 1548.
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RESEARCH ETHICS:
Planned Misconduct Surveys Meet Stiff Resistance

Constance Holden
Science 22 November 2002: 1549.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 22 November 2002: 1553.
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 Nuclear Power as an Energy Source

Richard C. Hill;, John Jagger;, John P. Holdren, and Peter H. Raven
Science 22 November 2002: 1553-1554.
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 Defining Scientific Misconduct

M. R. Beasley, S. Datta, H. Kogelnik, H. Kroemer, and D. Monroe
Science 22 November 2002: 1554.
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 Should Coauthors Share Liability?

Michael Phillips
Science 28 November 2002: 1554.
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 A Proposal for Transparency

Drummond Rennie; and Donald Kennedy
Science 22 November 2002: 1554.
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 Nature Versus Nurture Redux

Marc Hauser
Science 22 November 2002: 1554-1555.
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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
Nevertheless, It Does Move Us

Jay M. Pasachoff
Science 22 November 2002: 1557-1558.
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ECOLOGY:
It's a Dog's Life

Tim Caro
Science 22 November 2002: 1558-1559.
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 Browsings

Science 22 November 2002: 1559.
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 Books Received

Science 22 November 2002: 1559.

Essays on Science and Society

ESSAY: AMERSHAM BIOSCIENCES AND SCIENCE PRIZE:
PAS Domains and Metabolic Status Signaling

Jared Rutter
Science 22 November 2002: 1567-1568.
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 ESSAY: AMERSHAM BIOSCIENCES AND SCIENCE PRIZE:
2002 Grand Prize Winner

Science 22 November 2002: 1568.
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Policy Forum

EDUCATION:
Science and the Student Entrepreneur

Leo Wee Hin Tan and R. Subramaniam
Science 22 November 2002: 1556.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Enhanced: Gamma-Ray Astronomy with INTEGRAL

Giovanni F. Bignami
Science 22 November 2002: 1560-1561.
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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY:
Analytes Ante Portas

Norbert Hampp
Science 22 November 2002: 1561-1562.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Force and Voltage Sensors in One Structure

Francisco Bezanilla and Eduardo Perozo
Science 22 November 2002: 1562-1563.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Primate Origins Nailed

Eric J. Sargis
Science 22 November 2002: 1564-1565.
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LINGUISTICS:
Noam's Ark

Thomas Bever and Mario Montalbetti
Science 22 November 2002: 1565-1566.
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Review

The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve?

Marc D. Hauser, Noam Chomsky, and W. Tecumseh Fitch
Science 22 November 2002: 1569-1579.
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Brevia

 Thermotolerance Generated by Plant/Fungal Symbiosis

Regina S. Redman, Kathy B. Sheehan, Richard G. Stout, Russell J. Rodriguez, and Joan M. Henson
Science 22 November 2002: 1581.
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Research Articles

Crystal Structure of Escherichia coli MscS, a Voltage-Modulated and Mechanosensitive Channel

Randal B. Bass, Pavel Strop, Margaret Barclay, and Douglas C. Rees
Science 22 November 2002: 1582-1587.
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Mechanisms of AIF-Mediated Apoptotic DNA Degradation in Caenorhabditis elegans

Xiaochen Wang, Chonglin Yang, Jijie Chai, Yigong Shi, and Ding Xue
Science 22 November 2002: 1587-1592.
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Determination of the Equation of State of Dense Matter

Pawe Danielewicz, Roy Lacey, and William G. Lynch
Science 22 November 2002: 1592-1596.
Published online 31 October 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1078070] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Electron Acceleration by a Wake Field Forced by an Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulse

V. Malka, S. Fritzler, E. Lefebvre, M.-M. Aleonard, F. Burgy, J.-P. Chambaret, J.-F. Chemin, K. Krushelnick, G. Malka, S. P. D. Mangles, Z. Najmudin, M. Pittman, J.-P. Rousseau, J.-N. Scheurer, B. Walton, and A. E. Dangor
Science 22 November 2002: 1596-1600.
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Reports

Fluorometric Detection of Enzyme Activity with Synthetic Supramolecular Pores

Gopal Das, Pinaki Talukdar, and Stefan Matile
Science 22 November 2002: 1600-1602.
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Arsenic Mobility and Groundwater Extraction in Bangladesh

Charles F. Harvey, Christopher H. Swartz, A. B. M. Badruzzaman, Nicole Keon-Blute, Winston Yu, M. Ashraf Ali, Jenny Jay, Roger Beckie, Volker Niedan, Daniel Brabander, Peter M. Oates, Khandaker N. Ashfaque, Shafiqul Islam, Harold F. Hemond, and M. Feroze Ahmed
Science 22 November 2002: 1602-1606.
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Grasping Primate Origins

Jonathan I. Bloch and Doug M. Boyer
Science 22 November 2002: 1606-1610.
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Genetic Evidence for an East Asian Origin of Domestic Dogs

Peter Savolainen, Ya-ping Zhang, Jing Luo, Joakim Lundeberg, and Thomas Leitner
Science 22 November 2002: 1610-1613.
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Ancient DNA Evidence for Old World Origin of New World Dogs

Jennifer A. Leonard, Robert K. Wayne, Jane Wheeler, Raúl Valadez, Sonia Guillén, and Carles Vilà
Science 22 November 2002: 1613-1616.
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Whole-Genome Analysis of Photosynthetic Prokaryotes

Jason Raymond, Olga Zhaxybayeva, J. Peter Gogarten, Sveta Y. Gerdes, and Robert E. Blankenship
Science 22 November 2002: 1616-1620.
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Extent of Chromatin Spreading Determined by roX RNA Recruitment of MSL Proteins

Yongkyu Park, Richard L. Kelley, Hyangyee Oh, Mitzi I. Kuroda, and Victoria H. Meller
Science 22 November 2002: 1620-1623.
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A Kinetic Framework for a Mammalian RNA Polymerase in Vivo

Miroslav Dundr, Urs Hoffmann-Rohrer, Qiyue Hu, Ingrid Grummt, Lawrence I. Rothblum, Robert D. Phair, and Tom Misteli
Science 22 November 2002: 1623-1626.
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Combining Sensory Information: Mandatory Fusion Within, but Not Between, Senses

J. M. Hillis, M. O. Ernst, M. S. Banks, and M. S. Landy
Science 22 November 2002: 1627-1630.
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A Critical Role for IL-21 in Regulating Immunoglobulin Production

Katsutoshi Ozaki, Rosanne Spolski, Carl G. Feng, Chen-Feng Qi, Jun Cheng, Alan Sher, Herbert C. Morse, III, Chengyu Liu, Pamela L. Schwartzberg, and Warren J. Leonard
Science 22 November 2002: 1630-1634.
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The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs

Brian Hare, Michelle Brown, Christina Williamson, and Michael Tomasello
Science 22 November 2002: 1634-1636.
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Technical Comments

 Are 100,000 "SNPs" Useless?

Matthew Hurles, Jeff Bailey, and Evan Eichler
Science 22 November 2002: 1509.
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