This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
An Uncertain Partnership

R. Timothy Mulcahy
Science 7 November 2003: 949.
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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

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News of the Week

BIOTERRORISM:
Facing a Security Deadline, Labs Get a 'Provisional' Pass

Martin Enserink
Science 7 November 2003: 962-963.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
Has Voyager Gone Beyond the Fringe?

Adrian Cho
Science 7 November 2003: 962.
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BIOTERROR TRIAL:
Butler 'Lit Bonfire' to Hide Misdeeds, U.S. Says

David Malakoff
Science 7 November 2003: 963.
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MEDICINE:
Ozone May Be Secret Ingredient in Plaques' Inflammatory Stew

Jean Marx
Science 7 November 2003: 965.
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BIOMEDICAL POLITICS:
Sex Studies Denounced, NIH's Peer-Review Process Defended

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 7 November 2003: 966-967.
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY:
Ex-NASA Chief Loses Bid for College Presidency

Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 7 November 2003: 966.
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SPAIN:
Employment Law Falls Short, Say Young Scientists

Xavier Bosch
Science 7 November 2003: 967.
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GEOCHEMISTRY:
Unsuspected Underground Nitrates Pose a Puzzle for Desert Ecology

Erik Stokstad
Science 7 November 2003: 969.
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TOXICOLOGY:
Europe Whittles Down Plans for Massive Chemical Testing Program

Samuel Loewenberg
Science 7 November 2003: 969.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION:
Iran Reopens Its Past

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 970-973.
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BRONZE AGE FIND:
Jiroft Discovery Stuns Archaeologists

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 973-974.
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BRONZE AGE FIND:
Looting Savages New Site

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 974-975.
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SEYYED MOHAMMED BEHESHTI PROFILE:
Bringing Cultural Heritage Out of the Shadows

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 975-977.
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DEBATE REOPENED:
Uruk: Spreading Fashion or Empire?

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 977-978.
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ABBAS ALIZADEH PROFILE:
Chicago Scholar Is Keystone in Bridging Two Worlds

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 978-979.
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DEFINING CENTRAL ASIA:
Neglected Civilization Grabs Limelight

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 November 2003: 979.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Alkalinity Export and Carbon Balance

Klaus S. Lackner;, Peter Raymond, and Jon Cole
Science 7 November 2003: 985.
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 Increased Alkalinity in the Mississippi

Jeremy B. Jones, Emily H. Stanley, Patrick J. Mulholland;, Peter Raymond, and Jon Cole
Science 7 November 2003: 985-987.
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 Cooking Without Air Pollution

A. D. Karve; and Kirk R. Smith
Science 7 November 2003: 987-988.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

OCEANOGRAPHY:
First Views of the Depths

William A. Berggren
Science 7 November 2003: 989-990.
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BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY:
Culture Among Sperm Whales?

Ian L. Boyd
Science 7 November 2003: 990.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

PERCEPTIONS OF SCIENCE:
Deep-Sea Biology: Living with the Endless Frontier

Robert Kunzig
Science 7 November 2003: 991.
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Perspectives

IMMUNOLOGY:
T-bet or Not T-bet

Robin D. Hatton and Casey T. Weaver
Science 7 November 2003: 993-994.
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ECOLOGY:
Enhanced:
Deciding the Future of GM Crops in Europe

R. P. Freckleton, W. J. Sutherland, and A. R. Watkinson
Science 7 November 2003: 994-996.
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PHYSICS:
Nonlinear Optics in Fibers

Linn F. Mollenauer
Science 7 November 2003: 996-997.
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EVOLUTION:
Heirlooms in the Attic

Mark Johnston and Gary D. Stormo
Science 7 November 2003: 997-999.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Drought in the Sahel

Ning Zeng
Science 7 November 2003: 999-1000.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
How Particles Nucleate and Grow

Markku Kulmala
Science 7 November 2003: 1000-1001.
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Review

Scanning Probe Evolution in Biology

J. K. H. Hörber and M. J. Miles
Science 7 November 2003: 1002-1005.
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Brevia

 A Hot-Vent Gastropod with Iron Sulfide Dermal Sclerites

Anders Warén, Stefan Bengtson, Shana K. Goffredi, and Cindy L. Van Dover
Science 7 November 2003: 1007.
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Research Article

Structure of the Cytochrome b₆f Complex of Oxygenic Photosynthesis: Tuning the Cavity

Genji Kurisu, Huamin Zhang, Janet L. Smith, and William A. Cramer
Science 7 November 2003: 1009-1014.
Published online 2 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090165] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Quantum Coherence in an Exchange-Coupled Dimer of Single-Molecule Magnets

S. Hill, R. S. Edwards, N. Aliaga-Alcalde, and G. Christou
Science 7 November 2003: 1015-1018.
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Mars-Like Soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the Dry Limit of Microbial Life

Rafael Navarro-González, Fred A. Rainey, Paola Molina, Danielle R. Bagaley, Becky J. Hollen, José de la Rosa, Alanna M. Small, Richard C. Quinn, Frank J. Grunthaner, Luis Cáceres, Benito Gomez-Silva, and Christopher P. McKay
Science 7 November 2003: 1018-1021.
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A Reservoir of Nitrate Beneath Desert Soils

Michelle A. Walvoord, Fred M. Phillips, David A. Stonestrom, R. Dave Evans, Peter C. Hartsough, Brent D. Newman, and Robert G. Striegl
Science 7 November 2003: 1021-1024.
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African Droughts and Dust Transport to the Caribbean: Climate Change Implications

Joseph M. Prospero and Peter J. Lamb
Science 7 November 2003: 1024-1027.
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Oceanic Forcing of Sahel Rainfall on Interannual to Interdecadal Time Scales

A. Giannini, R. Saravanan, and P. Chang
Science 7 November 2003: 1027-1030.
Published online 9 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1089357] (in Science Express Reports)
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Increased Longevities of Post-Paleozoic Marine Genera After Mass Extinctions

Arnold I. Miller and Michael Foote
Science 7 November 2003: 1030-1032.
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Evolutionary Discrimination of Mammalian Conserved Non-Genic Sequences (CNGs)

Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Alexandre Reymond, Nathalie Scamuffa, Catherine Ucla, Ewen Kirkness, Colette Rossier, and Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Science 7 November 2003: 1033-1035.
Published online 2 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1087047] (in Science Express Reports)
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p53- and Drug-Induced Apoptotic Responses Mediated by BH3-Only Proteins Puma and Noxa

Andreas Villunger, Ewa M. Michalak, Leigh Coultas, Franziska Müllauer, Günther Böck, Michael J. Ausserlechner, Jerry M. Adams, and Andreas Strasser
Science 7 November 2003: 1036-1038.
Published online 18 September 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090072] (in Science Express Reports)
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Suspended Animation in C. elegans Requires the Spindle Checkpoint

Todd G. Nystul, Jesse P. Goldmark, Pamela A. Padilla, and Mark B. Roth
Science 7 November 2003: 1038-1041.
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Control of Effector CD8⁺ T Cell Function by the Transcription Factor Eomesodermin

Erika L. Pearce, Alan C. Mullen, Gislâine A. Martins, Connie M. Krawczyk, Anne S. Hutchins, Valerie P. Zediak, Monica Banica, Catherine B. DiCioccio, Darrick A. Gross, Chai-an Mao, Hao Shen, Nezih Cereb, Soo Y. Yang, Tullia Lindsten, Janet Rossant, Christopher A. Hunter, and Steven L. Reiner
Science 7 November 2003: 1041-1043.
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Mammalian Brain Morphogenesis and Midline Axon Guidance Require Heparan Sulfate

Masaru Inatani, Fumitoshi Irie, Andrew S. Plump, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, and Yu Yamaguchi
Science 7 November 2003: 1044-1046.
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Roles for Mating and Environment in C. elegans Sex Determination

Veena Prahlad, Dave Pilgrim, and Elizabeth B. Goodwin
Science 7 November 2003: 1046-1049.
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Enhanced Fitness Conferred by Naturally Occurring Variation in the Circadian Clock

Todd P. Michael, Patrice A. Salomé, Hannah J. Yu, Taylor R. Spencer, Emily L. Sharp, Mark A. McPeek, José M. Alonso, Joseph R. Ecker, and C. Robertson McClung
Science 7 November 2003: 1049-1053.
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Evidence for Ozone Formation in Human Atherosclerotic Arteries

Paul Wentworth, Jr., Jorge Nieva, Cindy Takeuchi, Roger Galve, Anita D. Wentworth, Ralph B. Dilley, Giacomo A. DeLaria, Alan Saven, Bernard M. Babior, Kim D. Janda, Albert Eschenmoser, and Richard A. Lerner
Science 7 November 2003: 1053-1056.
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Induction of APOBEC3G Ubiquitination and Degradation by an HIV-1 Vif-Cul5-SCF Complex

Xianghui Yu, Yunkai Yu, Bindong Liu, Kun Luo, Wei Kong, Panyong Mao, and Xiao-Fang Yu
Science 7 November 2003: 1056-1060.
Published online 16 October 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1089591] (in Science Express Reports)
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Technical Comments

 Comment on "Chromosomal Speciation and Molecular Divergence-Accelerated Evolution in Rearranged Chromosomes"

Jian Lu, Wen-Hsiung Li, and Chung-I Wu
Science 7 November 2003: 988.
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 Response to Comment on "Chromosomal Speciation and Molecular Divergence-Accelerated Evolution in Rearranged Chromosomes"

Arcadi Navarro, Tomàs Marquès-Bonet, and N. H. Barton
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