Breakthrough of the Year

News

BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Molecules Get Wired

Robert F. Service
Science 21 December 2001: 2442-2443.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
The Year of Living Dangerously

David Malakoff
Science 21 December 2001: 2443.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
The Runners-Up

The News and Editorial Staffs
Science 21 December 2001: 2443-2447.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Peering Into 2002

Science 21 December 2001: 2444.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Scorecard 2000

Science 21 December 2001: 2445.
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BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR:
Breakdowns of 2001

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This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Breakthrough of the Year

Donald Kennedy
Science 21 December 2001: 2429.
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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 21 December 2001: 2575-2578.

 AAAS News & Notes

Science 21 December 2001: 2579-2580.

News of the Week

U.K. RESEARCH FUNDING:
Universities Raise Their Game, But the Money Doesn't Flow

Andrew Watson
Science 21 December 2001: 2448-2449.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
Case Institute a False Start

David Malakoff
Science 21 December 2001: 2449.
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PARTICLE PHYSICS:
Sign of Supersymmetry Fades Away

Adrian Cho
Science 21 December 2001: 2449-2451.
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GERMAN RESEARCH:
Helmholtz Reforms Mollify Scientists

Gretchen Vogel
Science 21 December 2001: 2451-2452.
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CANADIAN BUDGET:
Most Initiatives Stalled; Health Research Grows

Wayne Kondro
Science 21 December 2001: 2452-2453.
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS:
A Time to Rest: Clock Signal Identified

Marcia Barinaga
Science 21 December 2001: 2453.
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LASER TECHNOLOGY:
Hot New Beam May Zap Bandwidth Bottleneck

Robert F. Service
Science 21 December 2001: 2454.
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NOBEL STATEMENT:
Laureates Plead for Laws, Not War

Wayne Kondro
Science 21 December 2001: 2455.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
Psychologist Made Up Sex Bias Results

Constance Holden
Science 21 December 2001: 2457.
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ASTRONOMY:
Dark Dwarf Galaxy Gets Even Darker

Robert Irion
Science 21 December 2001: 2457.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION:
Genome Duplications: The Stuff of Evolution?

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 21 December 2001: 2458-2460.
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PATENT INFRINGEMENT:
High Court Asked to Rule on What Makes an Idea New

David Malakoff
Science 21 December 2001: 2460-2461.
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MATERIALS RESEARCH SOCIETY MEETING:
Assembling the Supersmall and Ultrasensitive

Robert F. Service
Science 21 December 2001: 2462-2463.
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY:
For Plants, Reproduction Without Sex May Be Better

Anne Simon Moffat
Science 21 December 2001: 2463-2465.
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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
Can Universities Be Bribed to Train More Scientists?

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 December 2001: 2466-2467.
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UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION:
Undergraduate Data Show a Shift, Not a Decline, in Interest

Jeffrey Mervis
Science 21 December 2001: 2467.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 21 December 2001: 2477.
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 Exception to Eukaryotic Rules

Matthew J. Wargo and Peter J. Rizzo
Science 21 December 2001: 2477.
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 Etymology of Epigenetics

Harry Rubin; and C.-ting Wu
Science 21 December 2001: 2477-2478.
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 Speciation and Centromere Evolution

Pavel M. Borodin;, Steven Henikoff, Kami Ahmad, and Harmit S. Malik
Science 21 December 2001: 2478-2480.
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 Tapping Science's Women for the Podium

Sandra Masur and Caroline M. Kane
Science 21 December 2001: 2480.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
Proving Watson-Crickery, Napkin by Napkin

Nathaniel Comfort
Science 21 December 2001: 2483-2485.
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ECOLOGY:
Splendor of Humble Symbionts

Paula T. DePriest
Science 21 December 2001: 2485-2486.
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OPTICS AND ART:
Framing the Evidence

Patricia Fara
Science 21 December 2001: 2486.
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 Books Received

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Policy Forum

CLIMATE CHANGE:
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in U.S. Agriculture and Forestry

Bruce A. McCarl and Uwe A. Schneider
Science 21 December 2001: 2481-2482.
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Perspectives

BIOMEDICINE:
Do G Quartets Orchestrate Fragile X Pathology?

Hervé Moine and Jean-Louis Mandel
Science 21 December 2001: 2487-2488.
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SURFACE SCIENCE:
Hitting the Surface--Softly

Daniel J. Auerbach
Science 21 December 2001: 2488-2489.
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ENZYMOLOGY:
Coenzymes and Radicals

Perry A. Frey
Science 21 December 2001: 2489-2490.
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GLOBAL CHANGE:
Enhanced: Sharing the Garden

Christopher B. Field
Science 21 December 2001: 2490-2491.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Information Coding

Barry Richmond
Science 21 December 2001: 2493-2494.
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
A New Twist in the Radiocarbon Tale

Paula J. Reimer
Science 21 December 2001: 2494-2495.
Published online 6 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1068023] (in Science Express Perspectives)
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DEVELOPMENT:
Staying a Boy Forever

Steven A. Wasserman and Stephen DiNardo
Science 21 December 2001: 2495-2497.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Switching Partners in a Regulatory Tango

Kenichi Nishioka and Danny Reinberg
Science 21 December 2001: 2497-2498.
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 DEVELOPMENT:
Nota Bene: A SAC of Crumbs and Stardust

Orla Smith
Science 21 December 2001: 2498.
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Tech.Sight

Protein Sequencing in the Post-Genomic Era

Indira Rajagopal and Kevin Ahern
Science 21 December 2001: 2571-2573.
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Brevia

 Worldwide Observations of Remarkable Deep-Sea Squids

M. Vecchione, R. E. Young, A. Guerra, D. J. Lindsay, D. A. Clague, J. M. Bernhard, W. W. Sager, A. F. Gonzalez, F. J. Rocha, and M. Segonzac
Science 21 December 2001: 2505.
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 Miniature Genome in the Marine Chordate Oikopleura dioica

Hee-Chan Seo, Michael Kube, Rolf B. Edvardsen, Marit F. Jensen, Alfred Beck, Endy Spriet, Gabriel Gorsky, Eric M. Thompson, Hans Lehrach, Richard Reinhardt, and Daniel Chourrout
Science 21 December 2001: 2506.
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Research Articles

A Transcriptional Switch Mediated by Cofactor Methylation

Wei Xu, Hongwu Chen, Keyong Du, Hiroshi Asahara, Marc Tini, Beverly M. Emerson, Marc Montminy, and Ronald M. Evans
Science 21 December 2001: 2507-2511.
Published online 8 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065961] (in Science Express Research Articles)
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Regulation of Daily Locomotor Activity and Sleep by Hypothalamic EGF Receptor Signaling

Achim Kramer, Fu-Chia Yang, Pamela Snodgrass, Xiaodong Li, Thomas E. Scammell, Fred C. Davis, and Charles J. Weitz
Science 21 December 2001: 2511-2515.
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Reports

Submillimeter Evidence for the Coeval Growth of Massive Black Holes and Galaxy Bulges

M. J. Page, J. A. Stevens, J. P. D. Mittaz, and F. J. Carrera
Science 21 December 2001: 2516-2518.
Published online 1 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065880] (in Science Express Reports)
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Fermi Surface Sheet-Dependent Superconductivity in 2H-NbSe₂

T. Yokoya, T. Kiss, A. Chainani, S. Shin, M. Nohara, and H. Takagi
Science 21 December 2001: 2518-2520.
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Chemically Induced Electronic Excitations at Metal Surfaces

Brian Gergen, Hermann Nienhaus, W. Henry Weinberg, and Eric W. McFarland
Science 21 December 2001: 2521-2523.
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Application of the Marcus Cross Relation to Hydrogen Atom Transfer Reactions

Justine P. Roth, Jeffrey C. Yoder, Tae-Jin Won, and James M. Mayer
Science 21 December 2001: 2524-2526.
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"Heavy Electron" Photoelectron Spectroscopy: Rotationally Resolved Ion Pair Imaging of CH₃⁺

Xianghong Liu, Richard L. Gross, and Arthur G. Suits
Science 21 December 2001: 2527-2529.
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Regional ¹⁴CO₂ Offsets in the Troposphere: Magnitude, Mechanisms, and Consequences

Bernd Kromer, Sturt W. Manning, Peter Ian Kuniholm, Maryanne W. Newton, Marco Spurk, and Ingeborg Levin
Science 21 December 2001: 2529-2532.
Published online 6 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066114] (in Science Express Reports)
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Anatolian Tree Rings and a New Chronology for the East Mediterranean Bronze-Iron Ages

Sturt W. Manning, Bernd Kromer, Peter Ian Kuniholm, and Maryanne W. Newton
Science 21 December 2001: 2532-2535.
Published online 6 December 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1066112] (in Science Express Reports)
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Dnmt3L and the Establishment of Maternal Genomic Imprints

Déborah Bourc'his, Guo-Liang Xu, Chyuan-Sheng Lin, Brooke Bollman, and Timothy H. Bestor
Science 21 December 2001: 2536-2539.
Published online 22 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065848] (in Science Express Reports)
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Requirement of Heterochromatin for Cohesion at Centromeres

Pascal Bernard, Jean-François Maure, Janet F. Partridge, Sylvie Genier, Jean-Paul Javerzat, and Robin C. Allshire
Science 21 December 2001: 2539-2542.
Published online 11 October 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1064027] (in Science Express Reports)
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Stem Cell Self-Renewal Specified by JAK-STAT Activation in Response to a Support Cell Cue

Amy A. Kiger, D. Leanne Jones, Cordula Schulz, Madolyn B. Rogers, and Margaret T. Fuller
Science 21 December 2001: 2542-2545.
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Control of Stem Cell Self-Renewal in Drosophila Spermatogenesis by JAK-STAT Signaling

Natalia Tulina and Erika Matunis
Science 21 December 2001: 2546-2549.
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Human Appropriation of Photosynthesis Products

Stuart Rojstaczer, Shannon M. Sterling, and Nathan J. Moore
Science 21 December 2001: 2549-2552.
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A DNA Microarray-Based Genetic Screen for Nonhomologous End-Joining Mutants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Siew Loon Ooi, Daniel D. Shoemaker, and Jef D. Boeke
Science 21 December 2001: 2552-2556.
Published online 8 November 2001 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1065672] (in Science Express Reports)
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Role of the Hrp Pilus in Type III Protein Secretion in Pseudomonas syringae

Qiaoling Jin and Sheng-Yang He
Science 21 December 2001: 2556-2558.
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Crystal Structure of the Free Radical Intermediate of Pyruvate:Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase

Eric Chabrière, Xavier Vernède, Bruno Guigliarelli, Marie-Hélène Charon, E. Claude Hatchikian, and Juan C. Fontecilla-Camps
Science 21 December 2001: 2559-2563.
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KLF6, a Candidate Tumor Suppressor Gene Mutated in Prostate Cancer

Goutham Narla, Karen E. Heath, Helen L. Reeves, Dan Li, Luciana E. Giono, Alec C. Kimmelman, Marc J. Glucksman, Jyothsna Narla, Francis J. Eng, Andrew M. Chan, Anna C. Ferrari, John A. Martignetti, and Scott L. Friedman
Science 21 December 2001: 2563-2566.
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Independent and Redundant Information in Nearby Cortical Neurons

Daniel S. Reich, Ferenc Mechler, and Jonathan D. Victor
Science 21 December 2001: 2566-2568.
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Technical Comments

 In Silico Mapping of Mouse Quantitative Trait Loci

Elissa J. Chesler, Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas, Jeffrey S. Mogil, Ariel Darvasi, Jonathan Usuka, Andrew Grupe, Soren Germer, Dee Aud, John K. Belknap, Robert F. Klein, Mandeep K. Ahluwalia, Russell Higuchi, and Gary Peltz
Science 21 December 2001: 2423.
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