This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
Science 2 January 2004: 12.
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Editorial:
Disclosure and Disinterest

Donald Kennedy
Science 2 January 2004: 15.
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Editors' Choice

Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 2 January 2004: 16.
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NetWatch

Best of the Web in science.
Science 2 January 2004: 21.
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 NEW PRODUCTS

Science 2 January 2004: 105.

News of the Week

ITER:
No Meeting of the Minds on Fusion Megaproject

Daniel Clery
Science 2 January 2004: 22.
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CANCER RESEARCH:
Drug Candidate Bolsters Cell's Tumor Defenses

Jean Marx
Science 2 January 2004: 23-25.
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EUROPEAN SCIENCE:
Momentum Builds for Basic Research Agency

Gretchen Vogel
Science 2 January 2004: 23.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
The Pfiesteria Conundrum: More Study, Less Certainty

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 2 January 2004: 25-26.
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES:
Second Lab Accident Fuels Fears About SARS

Dennis Normile
Science 2 January 2004: 26.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Are Most Life-Friendly Stars Older Than the Sun?

Robert Irion
Science 2 January 2004: 27.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Long-Term Memory: A Positive Role for a Prion?

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 2 January 2004: 28-29.
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SCIENTIFIC CONDUCT:
Charges Don't Stick to The Skeptical Environmentalist

Lone Frank
Science 2 January 2003: 28.
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CHEMISTRY:
Newcomer Heats Up the Race for Practical Fuel Cells

Robert F. Service
Science 2 January 2004: 29.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

PLANET HUNTING:
The Search for Pale Blue Dots

Robert Irion
Science 2 January 2004: 30-32.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
A Surprising Survival Story in the Siberian Arctic

Richard Stone
Science 2 January 2004: 33.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Uncertain Science Underlies New Mercury Standards

Erik Stokstad
Science 2 January 2004: 34.
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CLIMATE CHANGE:
Sea Change in the Atlantic

Richard A. Kerr
Science 2 January 2004: 35.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 2 January 2004: 39.
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 Counting Whales in the North Atlantic

Sidney J. Holt;, Edward D. Mitchell;, Stephen R. Palumbi, and Joe Roman
Science 2 January 2004: 39-40.
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 Research and the Bayh-Dole Act

Peter R. Reczek
Science 2 January 2004: 40.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

Science 2 January 2004: 40.
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Books et al.

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Treasure Hunting to the Ends of the Earth

Meenakshi Wadhwa
Science 2 January 2004: 41-42.
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DEVELOPMENT:
The Tale Behind the Worm

Robert K. Herman
Science 2 January 2004: 42.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

BEYOND THE IVORY TOWER:
A Distant Mirror for the Brain

Carl Zimmer
Science 2 January 2004: 43-44.
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Perspectives

ASTRONOMY:
Long Gamma-Ray Bursts

Andrew MacFadyen
Science 2 January 2004: 45-46.
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ASTRONOMY:
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Stephan Rosswog
Science 2 January 2004: 46-47.
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PHYSIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Running a-Fowl of the Law

Norman C. Heglund
Science 2 January 2004: 47-48.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Sealing Cortical Cell Fate

Pat Levitt
Science 2 January 2004: 48-49.
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PLANT SCIENCES:
Promiscuous Maize Chromosomes

Enrique Martinez-Perez and Graham Moore
Science 2 January 2004: 49-50.
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Brevia

 Fluorescent Enhancement of Signaling in a Mantis Shrimp

C. H. Mazel, T. W. Cronin, R. L. Caldwell, and N. J. Marshall
Science 2 January 2004: 51.
Published online 13 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1089803] (in Science Express Brevia)
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Research Articles

The Yana RHS Site: Humans in the Arctic Before the Last Glacial Maximum

V. V. Pitulko, P. A. Nikolsky, E. Yu. Girya, A. E. Basilyan, V. E. Tumskoy, S. A. Koulakov, S. N. Astakhov, E. Yu. Pavlova, and M. A. Anisimov
Science 2 January 2004: 52-56.
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Foxg1 Suppresses Early Cortical Cell Fate

Carina Hanashima, Suzanne C. Li, Lijian Shen, Eseng Lai, and Gord Fishell
Science 2 January 2004: 56-59.
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Reports

The Galactic Habitable Zone and the Age Distribution of Complex Life in the Milky Way

Charles H. Lineweaver, Yeshe Fenner, and Brad K. Gibson
Science 2 January 2004: 59-62.
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Aligned Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Membranes

Bruce J. Hinds, Nitin Chopra, Terry Rantell, Rodney Andrews, Vasilis Gavalas, and Leonidas G. Bachas
Science 2 January 2004: 62-65.
Published online 26 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1092048] (in Science Express Reports)
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Supramolecular Self-Assembly of Macroscopic Tubes

Deyue Yan, Yongfeng Zhou, and Jian Hou
Science 2 January 2004: 65-67.
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High-Performance Solid Acid Fuel Cells Through Humidity Stabilization

Dane A. Boysen, Tetsuya Uda, Calum R. I. Chisholm, and Sossina M. Haile
Science 2 January 2004: 68-70.
Published online 20 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090920] (in Science Express Reports)
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Osmium Isotope Heterogeneity in the Constituent Phases of Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts

Abdelmouhcine Gannoun, Kevin W. Burton, Louise E. Thomas, Ian J. Parkinson, Peter van Calsteren, and Pierre Schiano
Science 2 January 2004: 70-72.
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Continental-Scale Partitioning of Fire Emissions During the 1997 to 2001 El Niño/La Niña Period

Guido R. van der Werf, James T. Randerson, G. James Collatz, Louis Giglio, Prasad S. Kasibhatla, Avelino F. Arellano, Jr., Seth C. Olsen, and Eric S. Kasischke
Science 2 January 2004: 73-76.
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Crystal Structure of Biotin Synthase, an S-Adenosylmethionine-Dependent Radical Enzyme

Frederick Berkovitch, Yvain Nicolet, Jason T. Wan, Joseph T. Jarrett, and Catherine L. Drennan
Science 2 January 2004: 76-79.
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Partitioning the Energetics of Walking and Running: Swinging the Limbs Is Expensive

Richard L. Marsh, David J. Ellerby, Jennifer A. Carr, Havalee T. Henry, and Cindy I. Buchanan
Science 2 January 2004: 80-83.
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MicroRNAs Modulate Hematopoietic Lineage Differentiation

Chang-Zheng Chen, Ling Li, Harvey F. Lodish, and David P. Bartel
Science 2 January 2004: 83-86.
Published online 4 December 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1091903] (in Science Express Reports)
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A Previously Unknown Maltose Transporter Essential for Starch Degradation in Leaves

Totte Niittylä, Gaëlle Messerli, Martine Trevisan, Jychian Chen, Alison M. Smith, and Samuel C. Zeeman
Science 2 January 2004: 87-89.
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Coordination of Meiotic Recombination, Pairing, and Synapsis by PHS1

Wojciech P. Pawlowski, Inna N. Golubovskaya, Ljudmilla Timofejeva, Robert B. Meeley, William F. Sheridan, and W. Zacheus Cande
Science 2 January 2004: 89-92.
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Dynamics of DNA Double-Strand Breaks Revealed by Clustering of Damaged Chromosome Domains

Jacob A. Aten, Jan Stap, Przemek M. Krawczyk, Carel H. van Oven, Ron A. Hoebe, Jeroen Essers, and Roland Kanaar
Science 2 January 2004: 92-95.
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Nuclear Export of MicroRNA Precursors

Elsebet Lund, Stephan Güttinger, Angelo Calado, James E. Dahlberg, and Ulrike Kutay
Science 2 January 2004: 95-98.
Published online 20 November 2003 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1090599] (in Science Express Reports)
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Coordinated Activation of Hsp70 Chaperones

Gregor J. Steel, Donna M. Fullerton, John R. Tyson, and Colin J. Stirling
Science 2 January 2004: 98-101.
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