This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
IP Policies and Serving the Public

Roger N. Beachy
Science 24 January 2003: 473.
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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 24 January 2003: 581-582.

News of the Week

PLANETARY EXPLORATION:
Europe's Comet Chaser Put on Hold Following Launcher Failure

Govert Schilling
Science 24 January 2003: 486-487.
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BIOTERRORISM:
Go Slow With Smallpox Shots, Panel Says

Martin Enserink
Science 24 January 2003: 486-487.
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BIOINFORMATICS:
Private Pact Ends the DNA Data War

Leslie Roberts
Science 24 January 2003: 487-489.
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BIOWEAPONS:
Plague of Lies Lands Texas Scientist in Jail

David Malakoff
Science 24 January 2003: 489-490.
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SCIENTIFIC ADVICE:
Spanish Researchers Vent Anger Over Handling of Oil Spill

John Bohannon and Xavier Bosch
Science 24 January 2003: 490.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Four-Winged Dinos Create a Flutter

Erik Stokstad
Science 24 January 2003: 491.
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ASTRONOMY:
Fire Destroys Historic Australian Observatory

Robert Irion
Science 24 January 2003: 492.
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ASTROPHYSICS:
Stanford Gets Serious About Space Physics

Robert Irion
Science 24 January 2003: 492.
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RUSSIA:
Putin Aims to Turn Science Cities Into Silicon Steppes

Paul Webster
Science 24 January 2003: 493.
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EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS:
Key Questions Loom Over Effort to Energize Research

Gretchen Vogel and Constance Holden
Science 24 January 2003: 493-495.
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GENE THERAPY:
Seeking the Cause of Induced Leukemias in X-SCID Trial

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 24 January 2003: 495.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

NEUROSCIENCE:
Tapping the Mind

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 24 January 2003: 496-499.
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NEUROSCIENCE:
Power to the Paralyzed

Ingrid Wickelgren
Science 24 January 2003: 497.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Through a Lens, Deeply

Robert Irion
Science 24 January 2003: 500.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
A Tsunami of Hot Jupiters?

Robert Irion
Science 24 January 2003: 500-501.
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AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY MEETING:
Stars Behaving Badly

Robert Irion
Science 24 January 2003: 501.
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STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY:
Propelled by Recent Advances, NMR Moves Into the Fast Lane

Robert F. Service
Science 24 January 2003: 503.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING:
Shedding Light on Avian Iridescence

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 January 2003: 504.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING:
Seeing the Invisible

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 January 2003: 504-505.
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SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY MEETING:
Lean Times, Lean Gut

Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 24 January 2003: 505.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

Science 24 January 2003: 511.
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 Spain's Earth Scientists and the Oil Spill

Pablo Serret, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado, and Antonio Bode
Science 24 January 2003: 511.
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 Revisiting Coauthor Responsibility

Cornelius Cooper
Science 24 January 2003: 511.
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 The Next Generation of Science Policy-Makers

Chris Quigg
Science 26 January 2003: 511-512.
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 Heat and Biodiversity

Michael A. Huston;, James H. Brown, Andrew P. Allen, and James F. Gillooly
Science 24 January 2003: 512-513.
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 Gluten Peptides and Celiac Disease

Frits Koning, Willemijn Vader;, Lu Shan, Øyvind Molberg, Gary M. Gray, Ludvig M. Sollid, and Chaitan Khosla
Science 24 January 2003: 513-515.
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

HISTORY OF SCIENCE:
A Premodern Synthesis

Manfred D. Laubichler
Science 24 January 2003: 516-517.
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ECOLOGY:
A Different Approach to Modeling

Nils Chr. Stenseth and Atle Mysterud
Science 24 January 2003: 518.
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 Books Received

Science 24 January 2003: 518.

Policy Forum

COMMUNICATION:
Enhanced: Science and the Semantic Web

James Hendler
Science 24 January 2003: 520-521.
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Perspectives

DEVELOPMENT:
The Bills of Qucks and Duails

Paul Trainor
Science 24 January 2003: 523-524.
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EVOLUTION:
Haploid Superiority

Duncan Greig and Michael Travisano
Science 24 January 2003: 524-525.
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CHEMISTRY:
Shaped Laser Pulses as Reagents

Herschel Rabitz
Science 24 January 2003: 525-527.
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TRANSCRIPTION:
Puffing with PARP

Vincenzo Pirrotta
Science 24 January 2003: 528-529.
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GEOPHYSICS:
An Ensemble View of Earth's Inner Core

Malcolm Sambridge
Science 24 January 2003: 529-530.
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BIOMEDICINE:
Nota Bene: Weathering the Big Chill

Orla Smith
Science 24 January 2003: 530.
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Brevia

 Information Storage Using Supramolecular Surface Patterns

Massimiliano Cavallini, Fabio Biscarini, Salvador Léon, Francesco Zerbetto, Giovanni Bottari, and David A. Leigh
Science 24 January 2003: 531.
The tip of an atomic force microscope can be used to pattern an organic film for data storage. Full Text »|   PDF »|   Version History »|  

Research Article

RacA, a Bacterial Protein That Anchors Chromosomes to the Cell Poles

Sigal Ben-Yehuda, David Z. Rudner, and Richard Losick
Science 24 January 2003: 532-536.
Published online 19 December 2002 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1079914] (in Science Express Research Articles)
A protein scaffold holds separated chromosomes during cell division and spore formation in bacteria, much as the spindle apparatus does in eukaryotes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Reports

Deciphering the Reaction Dynamics Underlying Optimal Control Laser Fields

Chantal Daniel, Jürgen Full, Leticia González, Cosmin Lupulescu, Jörn Manz, Andrea Merli, tefan Vajda, and Ludger Wöste
Science 24 January 2003: 536-539.
Electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope can induce fluorescence from portions of individual porphyrin molecules, revealing submolecular properties. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

High-Accuracy ab Initio Rotation-Vibration Transitions for Water

Oleg L. Polyansky, Attila G. Császár, Sergei V. Shirin, Nikolai F. Zobov, Paolo Barletta, Jonathan Tennyson, David W. Schwenke, and Peter J. Knowles
Science 24 January 2003: 539-542.
A computer simulation that includes quantum effects shows how water emits and absorbs energy, crucial for understanding the greenhouse effect. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Vibrationally Resolved Fluorescence Excited with Submolecular Precision

X. H. Qiu, G. V. Nazin, and W. Ho
Science 24 January 2003: 542-546.
Electrons from a scanning tunneling microscope can induce fluorescence from portions of individual porphyrin molecules, revealing submolecular properties. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Long-Range Correlations in the Diffuse Seismic Coda

Michel Campillo and Anne Paul
Science 24 January 2003: 547-549.
Scattered bits of seismic waveforms can be correlated to retrieve a coherent signal of Earth's elastic response to earthquakes. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

A Nebular Origin for Chondritic Fine-Grained Phyllosilicates

Fred J. Ciesla, Dante S. Lauretta, Barbara A. Cohen, and Lon L. Hood
Science 24 January 2003: 549-552.
A shock wave from the early Sun that may have created primitive grains seen in meteorites can also account for their hydrated rims. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Robust Normal Mode Constraints on Inner-Core Anisotropy from Model Space Search

Caroline Beghein and Jeannot Trampert
Science 24 January 2003: 552-555.
A model of how seismic waves pass through Earth implies that the inner core has a shell of hexagonal close-packed iron surrounding a center with a different phase. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

An Evolutionary Advantage of Haploidy in Large Yeast Populations

Clifford Zeyl, Thomas Vanderford, and Michele Carter
Science 24 January 2003: 555-558.
Having only one set of chromosomes (haploid) leads to faster evolution in large populations but not in small ones. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Tracheal Respiration in Insects Visualized with Synchrotron X-ray Imaging

Mark W. Westneat, Oliver Betz, Richard W. Blob, Kamel Fezzaa, W. James Cooper, and Wah-Keat Lee
Science 24 January 2003: 558-560.
Insects respire actively by vigorous tracheal pumping that resembles the ventilation of vertebrate lungs. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Chromatin Loosening by Poly(ADP)-Ribose Polymerase (PARP) at Drosophila Puff Loci

Alexei Tulin and Allan Spradling
Science 24 January 2003: 560-562.
An enzyme in the fruit fly loosens the structure around stress-activated genes, allowing their regulation. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Phosphorus Limitation of Coastal Ecosystem Processes

P. V. Sundareshwar, J. T. Morris, E. K. Koepfler, and B. Fornwalt
Science 24 January 2003: 563-565.
Often overlooked in ecosystem management, infiltration of phosphorous to wetlands stimulates growth of bacteria that, in turn, limit nitrogen availability to plants. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

The Cellular and Molecular Origins of Beak Morphology

R. A. Schneider and J. A. Helms
Science 24 January 2003: 565-568.
Transplanting duck neural crest cells into a developing quail-a distant species-yields a duck-billed quail, and vice versa. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Functional Mapping of the Primate Auditory System

Amy Poremba, Richard C. Saunders, Alison M. Crane, Michelle Cook, Louis Sokoloff, and Mortimer Mishkin
Science 24 January 2003: 568-572.
An unexpectedly large part of the brain of rhesus monkeys is devoted to hearing, almost as much as that to vision. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Extended Longevity in Mice Lacking the Insulin Receptor in Adipose Tissue

Matthias Blüher, Barbara B. Kahn, and C. Ronald Kahn
Science 24 January 2003: 572-574.
Genetically modified mice that cannot store fat live longer. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|  

Disruption of Transforming Growth Factor- Signaling in ELF -Spectrin-Deficient Mice

Yi Tang, Varalakshmi Katuri, Allan Dillner, Bibhuti Mishra, Chu-Xia Deng, and Lopa Mishra
Science 24 January 2003: 574-577.
A structural protein on the inner cell surface regulates access to a signaling pathway that controls morphological development in mice. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|  

Dynamics of the Hippocampus During Encoding and Retrieval of Face-Name Pairs

Michael M. Zeineh, Stephen A. Engel, Paul M. Thompson, and Susan Y. Bookheimer
Science 24 January 2003: 577-580.
A new method of analyzing brain images reveals that subregions of the hippocampus process different aspects of learning and memory. Abstract »|   Full Text »|   PDF »|   Supporting Online Material »|