This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Coming Aboard II: Discourse

Donald Kennedy
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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

AIR POLLUTION:
Evidence Mounts That Tiny Particles Can Kill

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 7 July 2000: 22-23.
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ASTROBIOLOGY:
Ames's Proposal for Lab Triggers Battle at NASA

Andrew Lawler
Science 7 July 2000: 23.
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HYPERTENSION:
Mutation Points to Salt Recycling Pathway

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 7 July 2000: 23-26.
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SPACE SCIENCE:
'Cluster' Prepares to Make a New Stand

Alexander Hellemans
Science 7 July 2000: 26.
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PLANT SCIENCE:
New European Group Lobbies for Support

Lone Frank
Science 7 July 2000: 26-27.
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DNA IMAGING:
Getting a Feel for Genetic Variations

Robert F. Service
Science 7 July 2000: 27-28.
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AIDS RESEARCH:
Italian Scientists Seek to Reverse Budget Cuts

Michael Balter
Science 7 July 2000: 28.
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ASTRONOMY:
Radio Galaxies Return From the Dead

Govert Schilling
Science 7 July 2000: 28-29.
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ASTRONOMY:
Neighborhood Gamma Ray Burst Boosts Theory

Govert Schilling
Science 7 July 2000: 29.
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2001 BUDGET:
Spending Bills Show No Sign of Surplus--Yet

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 7 July 2000: 31.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

TELESCOPES:
Astronomers Overcome 'Aperture Envy'

Robert Irion
Science 7 July 2000: 32-34.
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CONSERVATION BIOLOGY:
Combined Insults Spell Trouble for Rainforests

Bernice Wuethrich
Science 7 July 2000: 35-37.
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BIOMEDICINE:
New Insights Into Type 2 Diabetes

Joe Alper
Science 7 July 2000: 37-39.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 7 July 2000: 55.
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 Taxonomy of the Dmanisi Crania

Jeffrey H. Schwartz;, Leo Gabunia, Abesalom Vekua, and David Lordkipanidze
Science 7 July 2000: 55-56.
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 Early Mouse Models of Human Diseases

Frederick H. Kasten
Science 7 July 2000: 56.
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 Antipsychotics and Working Memory in Schizophrenia

André Aleman, Edward H. F. de Haan;, Stacy A. Castner, Graham V. Williams, and Patricia S. Goldman-Rakic
Science 7 July 2000: 56-58.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HUMAN EVOLUTION:
The Context of Our Genetic History

David B. Goldstein
Science 7 July 2000: 62-63.
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PHOTOGRAPHY:
Nota Bene: Frozen Moments

David Voss
Science 7 July 2000: 63.
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 Books Received

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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Selling Science to the Public

Roger Highfield
Science 7 July 2000: 59.
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ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
The Nature of Evidence

Boyce Rensberger
Science 7 July 2000: 61.
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Perspectives

AIDS SPECIAL REPORT:
AIDS in a New Millennium

Bernhard Schwartländer, Geoff Garnett, Neff Walker, and Roy Anderson
Science 7 July 2000: 64-67.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Travel Bulletin--Traffic Jams Cause Tumors

Mark Peifer
Science 7 July 2000: 67-69.
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GEOPHYSICS:
Enhanced: Earth's Enigmatic Interface

Edward J. Garnero and Raymond Jeanloz
Science 7 July 2000: 70-71.
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PLANT GENETICS:
A Tomato Gene Weighs In

John Doebley
Science 7 July 2000: 71-72.
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CHEMISTRY:
Superacids--It's a Lot About Anions

Darryl D. DesMarteau
Science 7 July 2000: 72-73.
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Transposase Team Puts a Headlock on DNA

Tanya L. Williams and Tania A. Baker
Science 7 July 2000: 73-74.
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Research Articles

Three-Dimensional Structure of the Tn5 Synaptic Complex Transposition Intermediate

Douglas R. Davies, Igor Y. Goryshin, William S. Reznikoff, and Ivan Rayment
Science 7 July 2000: 77-85.
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fw2.2: A Quantitative Trait Locus Key to the Evolution of Tomato Fruit Size

Anne Frary, T. Clint Nesbitt, Amy Frary, Silvana Grandillo, Esther van der Knaap, Bin Cong, Jiping Liu, Jaroslaw Meller, Ron Elber, Kevin B. Alpert, and Steven D. Tanksley
Science 7 July 2000: 85-88.
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Reports

Stellar Production Rates of Carbon and Its Abundance in the Universe

H. Oberhummer, A. Csótó, and H. Schlattl
Science 7 July 2000: 88-90.
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Topographic Mapping of the Quantum Hall Liquid Using a Few-Electron Bubble

G. Finkelstein, P. I. Glicofridis, R. C. Ashoori, and M. Shayegan
Science 7 July 2000: 90-94.
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Carbon Nanotube-Based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory for Molecular Computing

Thomas Rueckes, Kyoungha Kim, Ernesto Joselevich, Greg Y. Tseng, Chin-Li Cheung, and Charles M. Lieber
Science 7 July 2000: 94-97.
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Electrochemical Micromachining

Rolf Schuster, Viola Kirchner, Philippe Allongue, and Gerhard Ertl
Science 7 July 2000: 98-101.
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Taming Superacids: Stabilization of the Fullerene Cations HC₆₀⁺ and C₆₀^·+

Christopher A. Reed, Kee-Chan Kim, Robert D. Bolskar, and Leonard J. Mueller
Science 7 July 2000: 101-104.
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Subducted Seamount Imaged in the Rupture Zone of the 1946 Nankaido Earthquake

Shuichi Kodaira, Narumi Takahashi, Ayako Nakanishi, Seiichi Miura, and Yoshiyuki Kaneda
Science 7 July 2000: 104-106.
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Interconnected Feedback Loops in the Neurospora Circadian System

Kwangwon Lee, Jennifer J. Loros, and Jay C. Dunlap
Science 7 July 2000: 107-110.
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An Empirical Assessment of Taxic Paleobiology

Jonathan M. Adrain and and Stephen R. Westrop
Science 7 July 2000: 110-112.
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Cooperative Regulation of Cell Polarity and Growth by Drosophila Tumor Suppressors

David Bilder, Min Li, and Norbert Perrimon
Science 7 July 2000: 113-116.
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Molecular Identification of a Taste Receptor Gene for Trehalose in Drosophila

Hiroshi Ishimoto, Akira Matsumoto, and Teiichi Tanimura
Science 7 July 2000: 116-119.
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Activating Mineralocorticoid Receptor Mutation in Hypertension Exacerbated by Pregnancy

David S. Geller, Anita Farhi, Nikki Pinkerton, Michael Fradley, Michael Moritz, Adrian Spitzer, Gretchen Meinke, Francis T. F. Tsai, Paul B. Sigler, and Richard P. Lifton
Science 7 July 2000: 119-123.
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Structure of the Cytoplasmic  Subunit--T1 Assembly of Voltage-Dependent K⁺ Channels

Jacqueline M. Gulbis, Ming Zhou, Sabine Mann, and Roderick MacKinnon
Science 7 July 2000: 123-127.
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Technical Comments

 Independence of R/M/N Focus Formation and the Presence of Intact BRCA1

Xiaohua Wu, John H. J. Petrini, Walter F. Heine, David T. Weaver, David M. Livingston, Junjie Chen, Qing Zhong, Chi-Fen Chen, Phang-Lang Chen, and Wen-Hwa Lee
Science 7 July 2000: 11.
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