This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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 Editorial:
Science in Response to Basic Human Needs

M. S. Swaminathan
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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

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH:
Windfall Breeds Fresh But Vulnerable Crop of Grants

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 21 January 2000: 402.
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ASTRONOMY:
Gamma Ray Satellite Faces Premature End

Govert Schilling
Science 21 January 2000: 403.
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EUROPEAN UNION:
E.U. Grabs Food Safety by the Horns

Robert Koenig
Science 21 January 2000: 403-405.
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EUROPEAN UNION:
Getting Researchers to Pull Together

Robert Koenig
Science 21 January 2000: 405-406.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Did the Dinosaurs Live on a Topsy-Turvy Earth?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 21 January 2000: 406-407.
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REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES:
The Promise of All Weather, All the Time

Andrew Lawler
Science 21 January 2000: 407-408.
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IMMUNOLOGY:
Embryos Attacked by Mom's Natural Defenses

Michael Hagmann
Science 21 January 2000: 408.
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KOREA:
Laid-Off Satellite Group Sets Up Shop

Michael Baker
Science 21 January 2000: 409.
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MICROBIAL DISEASES:
How Rotavirus Causes Diarrhea

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 21 January 2000: 409-411.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Black Holes Begin to Lose Their Mystery

Robert Irion
Science 21 January 2000: 411.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

GENETICS:
Reaping the Plant Gene Harvest

Trisha Gura
Science 21 January 2000: 412-414.
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ELECTRONICS:
New Age Semiconductors Pick Up the Pace

Robert F. Service
Science 21 January 2000: 415-417.
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ELECTRONICS:
Setting the Benchmark for Plastic Electronics

Robert F. Service
Science 21 January 2000: 416.
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HUMAN RESOURCES:
New Incentives Lure Chinese Talent Back Home

Dennis Normile
Science 21 January 2000: 417-418.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY:
Integrating the Many Aspects of Biology

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 January 2000: 419-421.
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TAXONOMY:
Researchers Cash In on Personalized Species Names

Sabine Steghaus-Kovac
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Misallocation of CDC Funds

John H. Gagnon
Science 21 January 2000: 427.
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 Childhood Cancer

Julie A. Ross
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 Societal Responsibilities

Sheldon F. Gottlieb;, Tim Clair;, Yechiel Becker;, A. Loren Amacher;, and Joseph Rotblat
Science 21 January 2000: 427.
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 Considering Manure and Carbon Sequestration

Pete Smith, David S. Powlson;, and William H. Schlesinger
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

ANTHROPOLOGY:
Origins of Trade-offs in Maternal Care

A. Magdalena Hurtado
Science 21 January 2000: 433-434.
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METEOROLOGY:
Spiraling Storm Systems

Charles J. Neumann
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES:
Monitoring and Labeling for Genetically Modified Products

Alexander G. Haslberger
Science 21 January 2000: 431-432.
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Perspectives

PLANT BIOLOGY:
Some Like It Hot

Thomas D. Sharkey
Science 21 January 2000: 435-437.
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POLYMER CHEMISTRY:
Nickel Comes Full Cycle

Eric N. Jacobsen and Rolf Breinbauer
Science 21 January 2000: 437-438.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
A Tail of Histone Acetylation and DNA Recombination

Mark S. Schlissel
Science 21 January 2000: 438-440.
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PROTEIN SYNTHESIS:
Unraveling the Riddle of ProCys tRNA Synthetase

Michael Yarus
Science 21 January 2000: 440-441.
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QUANTUM COMPUTING:
Enhanced: Quantum Information Processing Without Entanglement

Peter Knight
Science 21 January 2000: 441-442.
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Tech.Sight

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Bead-based Fiber-Optic Arrays

David R. Walt
Science 21 January 2000: 451-452.
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 SOFTWARE:
e-Grants?

J. Bruce McCallum
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 SOFTWARE:
Sequence Analysis Star

Darryl Nishimura
Science 21 January 2000: 453-454.
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Review

Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

Peter Daszak, Andrew A. Cunningham, and Alex D. Hyatt
Science 21 January 2000: 443-449.
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Research Article

Late Cretaceous Polar Wander of the Pacific Plate: Evidence of a Rapid True Polar Wander Event

William W. Sager and and Anthony A. P. Koppers
Science 21 January 2000: 455-459.
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Reports

Neutral, Single-Component Nickel (II) Polyolefin Catalysts That Tolerate Heteroatoms

Todd R. Younkin, Eric F. Connor, Jason I. Henderson, Stefan K. Friedrich, Robert H. Grubbs, and Donald A. Bansleben
Science 21 January 2000: 460-462.
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Information Storage and Retrieval Through Quantum Phase

J. Ahn, T. C. Weinacht, and P. H. Bucksbaum
Science 21 January 2000: 463-465.
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Mirrorless Lasing from Mesostructured Waveguides Patterned by Soft Lithography

Peidong Yang, Gernot Wirnsberger, Howard C. Huang, Steven R. Cordero, Michael D. McGehee, Brian Scott, Tao Deng, George M. Whitesides, Bradley F. Chmelka, Steven K. Buratto, and Galen D. Stucky
Science 21 January 2000: 465-467.
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Detection of Molecular Alignment in Confined Films

F. Eisert, M. Gurka, A. Legant, M. Buck, and M. Grunze
Science 21 January 2000: 468-470.
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Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Response of YBa₂Cu₃O_7-

R. A. Kaindl, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser, D. C. Smith, J. F. Ryan, G. A. Farnan, M. P. McCurry, and D. G. Walmsley
Science 21 January 2000: 470-473.
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All-Optical Magnetic Resonance in Semiconductors

J. M. Kikkawa and D. D. Awschalom
Science 21 January 2000: 473-476.
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Trienoic Fatty Acids and Plant Tolerance of High Temperature

Yuuki Murakami, Michito Tsuyama, Yoshichika Kobayashi, Hiroaki Kodama, and Koh Iba
Science 21 January 2000: 476-479.
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One Polypeptide with Two Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetase Activities

Constantinos Stathopoulos, Tong Li, Randy Longman, Ute C. Vothknecht, Hubert D. Becker, Michael Ibba, and Dieter Söll
Science 21 January 2000: 479-482.
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A H⁺-Gated Urea Channel: The Link Between Helicobacter pylori Urease and Gastric Colonization

David L. Weeks, Sepehr Eskandari, David R. Scott, and George Sachs
Science 21 January 2000: 482-485.
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Transmission of Vesicular Stomatitis Virus from Infected to Noninfected Black Flies Co-Feeding on Nonviremic Deer Mice

Daniel G. Mead, Frank B. Ramberg, David G. Besselsen, and C. John Maré
Science 21 January 2000: 485-487.
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Transgenic Mouse Model of Stunned Myocardium

Anne M. Murphy, Harald Kögler, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Jason L. McDonough, David A. Kass, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, and Eduardo Marbán
Science 21 January 2000: 488-491.
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Role of the Enteric Nervous System in the Fluid and Electrolyte Secretion of Rotavirus Diarrhea

Ove Lundgren, Attila Timar Peregrin, Kjell Persson, Shirin Kordasti, Ingrid Uhnoo, and Lennart Svensson
Science 21 January 2000: 491-495.
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A Role for Histone Acetylation in the Developmental Regulation of V(D)J Recombination

Michelle Taylor McMurry and Michael S. Krangel
Science 21 January 2000: 495-498.
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A Critical Role for Murine Complement Regulator Crry in Fetomaternal Tolerance

Chenguang Xu, Dailing Mao, V. Michael Holers, Ben Palanca, Alec M. Cheng, and Hector Molina
Science 21 January 2000: 498-501.
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Rad6-Dependent Ubiquitination of Histone H2B in Yeast

Kenneth Robzyk, Judith Recht, and Mary Ann Osley
Science 21 January 2000: 501-504.
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Technical Comments

 Activation and Inhibition of the Staphylococcal AGR System

R. P. Novick, H. F. Ross, A. M. S. Figueiredo, G. Abramochkin, T. Muir;, Naomi Balaban, Baljit Singh, Tzipora Goldkorn, Avraham Rasooly, Jose V. Torres, and Orit Uziel;
Science 21 January 2000: 391.
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