This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Earth System Science

John Lawton
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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 15 June 2001: 2101-2103.

News of the Week

GLOBAL WARMING:
Bush Backs Spending for a 'Global Problem'

Richard A. Kerr
Science 15 June 2001: 1978.
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UNDERGROUND LABORATORY:
U.S. Researchers Go for Scientific Gold Mine

David Malakoff
Science 15 June 2001: 1979.
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NAZI RESEARCH:
Max Planck Offers Historic Apology

Robert Koenig
Science 15 June 2001: 1979-1982.
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DNA SEQUENCING:
Genome Teams Adjust to Shotgun Marriage

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1982-1983.
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE:
Using the Fruit Fly to Model Tau Malfunction

Dan Ferber
Science 15 June 2001: 1983-1984.
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ESPIONAGE CASE:
Japan Says Cell Lines Weren't Used at RIKEN

Dennis Normile
Science 15 June 2001: 1984.
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ASTRONOMY:
Infrared Gleam Stamps Brown Dwarfs as Stars

Mark Sincell
Science 15 June 2001: 1984-1985.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Quasars or Blazars? It's All in the Angle

Govert Schilling
Science 15 June 2001: 1985.
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ANIMAL MODELS:
EC Boosts Funds for Mutant Mice

Michael Balter
Science 15 June 2001: 1985-1987.
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CONDENSED-MATTER PHYSICS:
Switch-Hitter Materials Tantalize Theorists

David Voss
Science 15 June 2001: 1987.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

THE FUTURE OF NIH:
Who Will Be Custodian of the Crown Jewels?

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1988-1991.
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THE PEOPLE:
Ruth Kirschstein and Alan Rabson

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1989.
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THE BIG THREE:
NCI's Richard Klausner

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1990.
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THE BIG THREE:
NIAID's Anthony Fauci

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1990.
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THE BIG THREE:
NHLBI's Claude Lenfant

Eliot Marshall
Science 15 June 2001: 1991.
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THE NUMBERS:
NIH Prays for a Soft Landing After Its Doubling Ride Ends

David Malakoff
Science 15 June 2001: 1992-1995.
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THE NUMBERS:
NIH Stays the Course in Choosing How to Spend Its Growing Budget

David Malakoff
Science 15 June 2001: 1993.
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THE WINNERS:
Even in a Time of Plenty, Some Do Better Than Others

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 15 June 2001: 1995-1997.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Water Resources Programs Under the Ax

Kenneth H. Reckhow
Science 15 June 2001: 2009.
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 Directions to "Eureka!"

David Klahr;, David Paydarfar, and William J. Schwartz
Science 15 June 2001: 2009-2010.
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 Health Consequences of the Chornobyl Accident

Dillwyn Williams; and Richard Stone
Science 15 June 2001: 2010-2011.
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 Many Citations Support Global Warming Trend

Raymond S. Bradley
Science 15 June 2001: 2011.
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 The Scope of Medieval Warming

Raymond S. Bradley, Keith R. Briffa, Thomas J. Crowley, Malcolm K. Hughes, Philip D. Jones, and Michael E. Mann
Science 15 June 2001: 2011-2012.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Fragmented Formative Story

Hugh O'Neill
Science 15 June 2001: 2016-2017.
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PLANT ECOLOGY:
Paradise Regained

Sandra Knapp
Science 15 June 2001: 2017-2018.
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ENVIRONMENT:
Nota Bene: Sounds of Silence

Julia Uppenbrink
Science 15 June 2001: 2017.
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 Books Received

Science 15 June 2001: 2018.

Policy Forum

MEDICINE:
Placebo-Controls in Short-Term Clinical Trials of Hypertension

Sana M. Al-Khatib, Robert M. Califf, Vic Hasselblad, John H. Alexander, Douglas C. McCrory, and Jeremy Sugarman
Science 15 June 2001: 2013-2015.
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Perspectives

TRANSCRIPTION:
Translocating Tubby

Lewis C. Cantley
Science 15 June 2001: 2019-2021.
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CHEMISTRY:
A New Twist on Chirality

Ben L. Feringa
Science 15 June 2001: 2021-2022.
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PLANT BIOLOGY:
One for All?

Brian E. Ellis and Godfrey P. Miles
Science 15 June 2001: 2022-2023.
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BIOCHEMISTRY:
How to Make a Superior Cell

Gregory Stephanopoulos and Joanne Kelleher
Science 15 June 2001: 2024-2025.
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ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE:
Reshaping the Theory of Cloud Formation

Robert J. Charlson, John H. Seinfeld, Athanasios Nenes, Markku Kulmala, Ari Laaksonen, and M. Cristina Facchini
Science 15 June 2001: 2025-2026.
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PLANETARY SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Life Without Photosynthesis

Christopher F. Chyba and Kevin P. Hand
Science 15 June 2001: 2026-2027.
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Tech.Sight

From Genome to Function

Janet M. Thornton
Science 15 June 2001: 2095-2097.
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Research Articles

Exponential Gain and Saturation of a Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission Free-Electron Laser

S. V. Milton, E. Gluskin, N. D. Arnold, C. Benson, W. Berg, S. G. Biedron, M. Borland, Y.-C. Chae, R. J. Dejus, P. K. Den Hartog, B. Deriy, M. Erdmann, Y. I. Eidelman, M. W. Hahne, Z. Huang, K.-J. Kim, J. W. Lewellen, Y. Li, A. H. Lumpkin, O. Makarov, E. R. Moog, A. Nassiri, V. Sajaev, R. Soliday, B. J. Tieman, E. M. Trakhtenberg, G. Travish, I. B. Vasserman, N. A. Vinokurov, X. J. Wang, G. Wiemerslage, and B. X. Yang
Science 15 June 2001: 2037-2041.
Published online 17 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059955] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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G-Protein Signaling Through Tubby Proteins

Sandro Santagata, Titus J. Boggon, Cheryl L. Baird, Carlos A. Gomez, Jin Zhao, Wei Song Shan, David G. Myszka, and Lawrence Shapiro
Science 15 June 2001: 2041-2050.
Published online 24 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1061233] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Reports

Discovery of Hidden Blazars

Feng Ma and Beverley J. Wills
Science 15 June 2001: 2050-2053.
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Observation of Magnetic Hysteresis at the Nanometer Scale by Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy

O. Pietzsch, A. Kubetzka, M. Bode, and R. Wiesendanger
Science 15 June 2001: 2053-2056.
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Far-Reaching Effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the Pacific Ocean-Atmosphere System

Shang-Ping Xie, W. Timothy Liu, Qinyu Liu, and Masami Nonaka
Science 15 June 2001: 2057-2060.
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Linearly Polarized Emission from Colloidal Semiconductor Quantum Rods

Jiangtao Hu, Liang-shi Li, Weidong Yang, Liberato Manna, Lin-wang Wang, and A. Paul Alivisatos
Science 15 June 2001: 2060-2063.
Published online 3 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1060810] (in Science Express Reports)
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Chiral Sign Induction by Vortices During the Formation of Mesophases in Stirred Solutions

Josep M. Ribó, Joaquim Crusats, Francesc Sagués, Josep Claret, and Raimon Rubires
Science 15 June 2001: 2063-2066.
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Modulation of Cell Proliferation by Heterotrimeric G Protein in Arabidopsis

Hemayet Ullah, Jin-Gui Chen, Jeff C. Young, Kyung-Hoan Im, Michael R. Sussman, and Alan M. Jones
Science 15 June 2001: 2066-2069.
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G Protein Regulation of Ion Channels and Abscisic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis Guard Cells

Xi-Qing Wang, Hemayet Ullah, Alan M. Jones, and Sarah M. Assmann
Science 15 June 2001: 2070-2072.
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Trophic Conversion of an Obligate Photoautotrophic Organism Through Metabolic Engineering

L. A. Zaslavskaia, J. C. Lippmeier, C. Shih, D. Ehrhardt, A. R. Grossman, and K. E. Apt
Science 15 June 2001: 2073-2075.
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Telomere Position Effect in Human Cells

Joseph A. Baur, Ying Zou, Jerry W. Shay, and Woodring E. Wright
Science 15 June 2001: 2075-2077.
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Requirement of CHROMOMETHYLASE3 for Maintenance of CpXpG Methylation

Anders M. Lindroth, Xiaofeng Cao, James P. Jackson, Daniel Zilberman, Claire M. McCallum, Steven Henikoff, and Steven E. Jacobsen
Science 15 June 2001: 2077-2080.
Published online 10 May 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1059745] (in Science Express Reports)
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Ordering Genes in a Flagella Pathway by Analysis of Expression Kinetics from Living Bacteria

S. Kalir, J. McClure, K. Pabbaraju, C. Southward, M. Ronen, S. Leibler, M. G. Surette, and U. Alon
Science 15 June 2001: 2080-2083.
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Vitamin C-Induced Decomposition of Lipid Hydroperoxides to Endogenous Genotoxins

Seon Hwa Lee, Tomoyuki Oe, and Ian A. Blair
Science 15 June 2001: 2083-2086.
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Technical Comments

 Questions Regarding Precambrian Sulfur Isotope Fractionation

Hiroshi Ohmoto, Kosei E. Yamaguchi, Shuhei Ono, James Farquhar, Huiming Bao, Mark H. Thiemens, Guixing Hu, and Douglas Rumble, III
Science 15 June 2001: 1959.
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