This Week in Science

Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
View from the East

Jens G. Reich
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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

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:
EMBL Faces Huge Bill Following Adverse Pay Dispute Ruling

Michael Balter
Science 5 November 1999: 1058-1059.
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ANIMAL RIGHTS:
Booby-Trapped Letters Sent to 87 Researchers

Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 5 November 1999: 1059.
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BIOMATERIALS:
Reverse Engineering the Ceramic Art of Algae

Ivan Amato
Science 5 November 1999: 1059-1061.
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OCEANOGRAPHY:
Has a Great River in the Sea Slowed Down?

Richard A. Kerr
Science 5 November 1999: 1061-1062.
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AIDS:
European Vaccine Effort Faces Chinese Puzzle

Michael Balter
Science 5 November 1999: 1062-1063.
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DOE LABS:
Congress Shrinks Lab Chiefs' Flexible Funds

David Malakoff
Science 5 November 1999: 1064.
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PALEONTOLOGY:
Fossils Give Glimpse of Old Mother Lamprey

Carl Zimmer
Science 5 November 1999: 1064-1065.
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PHYSICS:
Gravity's Gravity Vindicates Einstein

Andrew Watson
Science 5 November 1999: 1065-1067.
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NANOTECHNOLOGY:
Patterning Plastic With Plentiful Pillars

Robert F. Service
Science 5 November 1999: 1067.
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ScienceScope

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Random Samples

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News Focus

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION:
Humane Science Finds Sharper and Kinder Tools

Erik Stokstad
Science 5 November 1999: 1068-1071.
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ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION:
Toxicity Testing: The Many Arts of Persuasion

Erik Stokstad
Science 5 November 1999: 1070.
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SOCIETY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY:
The Stories Behind the Bones

Carl Zimmer
Science 5 November 1999: 1071-1074.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
NIH Eyes Sweeping Reform of Peer Review

Bruce Agnew
Science 5 November 1999: 1074-1076.
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BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH:
What's Wrong With NIH Peer Review?

Science 5 November 1999: 1074-1075.
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SCIENTIFIC MISCONDUCT:
The Misconduct Case That Won't Go Away

Eliot Marshall
Science 5 November 1999: 1076-1077.
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Letters

This Week's Letters

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 Megascience Forum: Valuable from IUPAP's Perspective

Burton Richter*
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 Need for Neutron Diffraction Instruments

Paul Langan and Benno P. Schoenborn
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 The Paternity of Aspirin

Harry Henderson
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 Fear of Biotechnology: Hysteria or Due Caution?

Jorn Koch
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 CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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Books et al.

BIOTECHNOLOGY:
A Genetic Code Napoléon?

Wilhelm Ansorge
Science 5 November 1999: 1095-1096.
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MICROBIOLOGY:
Mega Roles for Microorganisms

Caroline S. Harwood and E. Peter Greenberg
Science 5 November 1999: 1096.
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Essays on Science and Society

ESSAY ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Of Two Minds and One Nature

Rhonda Roland Shearer and Stephen Jay Gould
Science 5 November 1999: 1093-1094.
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Perspectives

MATERIALS SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Controlling Cracks in Ceramics

William J. Clegg
Science 5 November 1999: 1097-1099.
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ECOLOGY:
Diversity and Production in European Grasslands

David Tilman
Science 5 November 1999: 1099-1100.
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CANCER:
Breast Cancer Genes and DNA Repair

Ashok R. Venkitaraman
Science 5 November 1999: 1100-1102.
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CELL BIOLOGY:
Cell Migration--Movin' On

Alan Rick Horwitz and J. Thomas Parsons
Science 5 November 1999: 1102-1103.
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Review

Northern Hemisphere Ice-Sheet Influences on Global Climate Change

Peter U. Clark, Richard B. Alley, and David Pollard
Science 5 November 1999: 1104-1111.
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Research Articles

Experimental Determination of the Antiaromaticity of Cyclobutadiene

Ashok A. Deniz, Kevin S. Peters, and Gary J. Snyder
Science 5 November 1999: 1119-1122.
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Plant Diversity and Productivity Experiments in European Grasslands

A. Hector, B. Schmid, C. Beierkuhnlein, M. C. Caldeira, M. Diemer, P. G. Dimitrakopoulos, J. A. Finn, H. Freitas, P. S. Giller, J. Good, R. Harris, P. Högberg, K. Huss-Danell, J. Joshi, A. Jumpponen, C. Körner, P. W. Leadley, M. Loreau, A. Minns, C. P. H. Mulder, G. O'Donovan, S. J. Otway, J. S. Pereira, A. Prinz, D. J. Read, M. Scherer-Lorenzen, E.-D. Schulze, A.-S. D. Siamantziouras, E. M. Spehn, A. C. Terry, A. Y. Troumbis, F. I. Woodward, S. Yachi, and J. H. Lawton
Science 5 November 1999: 1123-1127.
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Reports

Hydrogen Storage in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes at Room Temperature

C. Liu, Y. Y. Fan, M. Liu, H. T. Cong, H. M. Cheng, and M. S. Dresselhaus
Science 5 November 1999: 1127-1129.
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Polycationic Peptides from Diatom Biosilica That Direct Silica Nanosphere Formation

Nils Kröger, Rainer Deutzmann, and Manfred Sumper
Science 5 November 1999: 1129-1132.
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A Possible 20th-Century Slowdown of Southern Ocean Deep Water Formation

Wallace S. Broecker, Stewart Sutherland, and Tsung-Hung Peng
Science 5 November 1999: 1132-1135.
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Fault Slip Rates in the Modern New Madrid Seismic Zone

Karl Mueller, Jocasta Champion, Margaret Guccione, and Keith Kelson
Science 5 November 1999: 1135-1138.
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Ultrasensitive Isotope Trace Analyses with a Magneto-Optical Trap

C. Y. Chen, Y. M. Li, K. Bailey, T. P. O'Connor, L. Young, and Z.-T. Lu
Science 5 November 1999: 1139-1141.
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Similarity of the C. elegans Developmental Timing Protein LIN-42 to Circadian Rhythm Proteins

Mili Jeon, Heather F. Gardner, Eric A. Miller, Jodie Deshler, and Ann E. Rougvie
Science 5 November 1999: 1141-1146.
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An Adenosine Deaminase that Generates Inosine at the Wobble Position of tRNAs

André P. Gerber and Walter Keller
Science 5 November 1999: 1146-1149.
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Regulation of Lineage Commitment Distinct from Positive Selection

Robert Keefe, Vibhuti Dave, David Allman, David Wiest, and Dietmar J. Kappes
Science 5 November 1999: 1149-1153.
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A Biochemical Genomics Approach for Identifying Genes by the Activity of Their Products

Mark R. Martzen, Stephen M. McCraith, Sherry L. Spinelli, Francy M. Torres, Stanley Fields, Elizabeth J. Grayhack, and Eric M. Phizicky
Science 5 November 1999: 1153-1155.
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Nongenomic Transmission Across Generations of Maternal Behavior and Stress Responses in the Rat

Darlene Francis, Josie Diorio, Dong Liu, and Michael J. Meaney
Science 5 November 1999: 1155-1158.
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Extensive Nuclear DNA Sequence Diversity Among Chimpanzees

Henrik Kaessmann, Victor Wiebe, and Svante Pääbo
Science 5 November 1999: 1159-1162.
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Requirement of ATM-Dependent Phosphorylation of Brca1 in the DNA Damage Response to Double-Strand Breaks

David Cortez, Yi Wang, Jun Qin, and Stephen J. Elledge
Science 5 November 1999: 1162-1166.
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Control of the DNA Damage Checkpoint by Chk1 and Rad53 Protein Kinases Through Distinct Mechanisms

Yolanda Sanchez, Jeff Bachant, Hong Wang, Fenghua Hu, Dou Liu, Michael Tetzlaff, and Stephen J. Elledge
Science 5 November 1999: 1166-1171.
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Focal Adhesion Motility Revealed in Stationary Fibroblasts

Lubomir B. Smilenov, Alexei Mikhailov, Robert J. Pelham, Jr., Eugene E. Marcantonio, and Gregg G. Gundersen
Science 5 November 1999: 1172-1174.
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Experimental Studies of Extinction Dynamics

Gary E. Belovsky, Chad Mellison, Chad Larson, and Peter A. Van Zandt
Science 5 November 1999: 1175-1177.
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Chunk Versus Point Sampling: Visual Imaging in a Small Insect

Elke Buschbeck, Birgit Ehmer, and Ron Hoy
Science 5 November 1999: 1178-1180.
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Calmodulin Dependence of Presynaptic Metabotropic Glutamate Receptor Signaling

Vincent O'Connor, Oussama El Far, Elisa Bofill-Cardona, Christian Nanoff, Michael Freissmuth, Andreas Karschin, José M. Airas, Heinrich Betz, and Stefan Boehm
Science 5 November 1999: 1180-1184.
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Technical Comments

CH₅⁺ Stability and Mass Spectrometry

George M. Kramer;, Takeshi Oka, Edmund T. White;, Dominik Marx, and Michele Parrinello;
Science 5 November 1999: 1051.
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