Contents

Contents

• This Week in Science

  • Editor summaries of this week's papers.

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• Editorial

  • Issues Facing the New FDA Commissioner

    By Louis Lasagna, Kenneth I. Kaitin

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• NetWatch

  • Best of the Web in science.

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• Departments

  • NEW PRODUCTS

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• News of the Week

  • Democrats Match GOP in Sending a Physicist to Washington

    By David Malakoff

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  • Understanding of Ears, Bristles Jumps a Notch

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Microsoft Picks Beijing for New R&D Lab

    By Justin Wang

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  • Canada Opens Program to Community Groups

    By Wayne Kondro

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  • NSF to Send College Students Into Schools

    By Jeffrey Mervis

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  • Reaction to Stem Cells: A Tale of the Ticker

    By David Malakoff

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  • Binaries Answer Riddle of Brown Dwarf Origins

    By Alexander Hellemans

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  • Cold Spring Harbor to Offer Own Degrees

    By Eliot Marshall

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  • Pasteur Recruit Resigns in Battle Over New Unit

    By Michael Balter

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  • Genome Links Typhus Bug to Mitochondrion

    By Elizabeth Pennisi

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• ScienceScope

  • ScienceScope

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• Random Samples

  • Random Samples

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• News Focus

  • Training Viruses to Attack Cancers

    By Elizabeth Pennisi

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  • Popular Interest Fuels a Dinosaur Research Boom

    By Erik Stokstad

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  • Does Science Know the Vital Statistics of the Cosmos?

    By James Glanz

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  • No Backing Off From the Accelerating Universe

    By James Glanz

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  • Ocean Drilling Floats Ambitious Plans for Growth

    By Richard A. Kerr, Dennis Normile

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  • Temperate Forests Gain Ground

    By Anne Simon Moffat

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• Letters

  • This Week's Letters

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  • Fossil Discoveries in India: Continued

    By Simon Conway Morris, Sören Jensen, Nicholas J. Butterfield

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  • California Standards

    By Steven B. Oppenheimer

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  • Human Rights: An Issue Among Anthropologists

    By Tom Greaves

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  • New Niches for Life Scientists

    By Elaine Caton, Jennifer Cherrier, Elizabeth Farnsworth, Scott Franklin, Beth Hufnagel, Eric Klopfer, Janet Russell, Ben Sayler

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  • Internet Friendships

    By Philip Aspden, James E. Katz

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  • Publishers' Honeymoon?

    By Louis M. Guenin

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  • Apoptosis and Alzheimer's Disease

    By George Perry, Akihiko Nunomura, Paul Lucassen, Hans Lassmann, Mark A. Smith

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  • Genetics of Alcoholism

    By Howard J. Edenberg, Tatiana Foroud, Alison Goate, John Rice, Theodore Reich, Robert C. Cloninger, John I. Nurnberger Jr., T.-K. Li, P. M. Conneally, Jay A. Tischfield, Raymond Crowe, Victor Hesselbrock, Marc Schuckit, Bernice Porjesz, Henri Begleiter

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• Books

  • Innovative History of the Chemical Industry

    By Christopher Freeman

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  • Rainforest "Crows" in Fancy Dress

    A review by Sherman J. Suter

    By Sherman J. Suter

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• Policy Forum

  • Conservation Targets in South American Temperate Forests

    By J. J. Armesto, R. Rozzi, C. Smith-Ramírez, M. T. K. Arroyo

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• Perspectives

  • Toughened Ceramics

    By William K. Tredway

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  • Spinosaurs as Crocodile Mimics

    By Thomas R. Holtz Jr.

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  • Gathering Glycine Receptors at Synapses

    By Stanley C. Froehner

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  • A Cellular Striptease Act

    By Zena Werb, Yibing Yan

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• Association Affairs

  • Nobel : Always the Winners, Never the Losers

    By Elisabeth Crawford

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• Research Articles

  • An Essential Role for Ectodomain Shedding in Mammalian Development

    By Jacques J. Peschon, Jennifer L. Slack, Pranitha Reddy, Kim L. Stocking, Susan W. Sunnarborg, David C. Lee, William E. Russell, Beverly J. Castner, Richard S. Johnson, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Rogely W. Boyce, Nicole Nelson, Carl J. Kozlosky, Martin F. Wolfson, Charles T. Rauch, Douglas Pat Cerretti, Raymond J. Paxton, Carl J. March, Roy A. Black

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  • Presolar Corundum and Spinel in Ordinary Chondrites: Origins from AGB Stars and a Supernova

    By Byeon-Gak Choi, Gary R. Huss, G. J. Wasserburg, Roberto Gallino

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• Reports

  • Direct Observations of Structural Phase Transitions in Planar Crystallized Ion Plasmas

    By T. B. Mitchell, J. J. Bollinger, D. H. E. Dubin, X.-P. Huang, W. M. Itano, R. H. Baughman

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  • Controlling Factors for the Brittle-to-Ductile Transition in Tungsten Single Crystals

    By Peter Gumbsch, Joachim Riedle, Alexander Hartmaier, Hellmut F. Fischmeister

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  • A Tough, Thermally Conductive Silicon Carbide Composite with High Strength up to 1600°C in Air

    By Toshihiro Ishikawa, Shinji Kajii, Kenji Matsunaga, Toshihiko Hogami, Yasuhiko Kohtoku, Toshio Nagasawa

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  • A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids

    By Paul C. Sereno, Allison L. Beck, Didier B. Dutheil, Boubacar Gado, Hans C. E. Larsson, Gabrielle H. Lyon, Jonathan D. Marcot, Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Rudyard W. Sadleir, Christian A. Sidor, David D. Varricchio, Gregory P. Wilson, Jeffrey A. Wilson

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  • Ultrastable Mesostructured Silica Vesicles

    By Seong Su Kim, Wenzhong Zhang, Thomas J. Pinnavaia

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  • Large-Scale Nitrogen Oxide Plumes in the Tropopause Region and Implications for Ozone

    By Dominik Brunner, Johannes Staehelin, Dominique Jeker

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  • Discovery of a Low-Mass Brown Dwarf Companion of the Young Nearby Star G 196-3

    By Rafael Rebolo, Marı́a R. Zapatero Osorio, Santiago Madruga, Vı́ctor J. S. Béjar, Santiago Arribas, Javier Licandro

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  • Requirement for MAPK Activation for Normal Mitotic Progression in Xenopus Egg Extracts

    By Thomas M. Guadagno, James E. Ferrell Jr.

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  • Catalytic Plasticity of Fatty Acid Modification Enzymes Underlying Chemical Diversity of Plant Lipids

    By Pierre Broun, John Shanklin, Ed Whittle, Chris Somerville

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  • Regulation of Cell Death Protease Caspase-9 by Phosphorylation

    By Michael H. Cardone, Natalie Roy, Henning R. Stennicke, Guy S. Salvesen, Thomas F. Franke, Eric Stanbridge, Steven Frisch, John C. Reed

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  • Dual Requirement for Gephyrin in Glycine Receptor Clustering and Molybdoenzyme Activity

    By Guoping Feng, Hartmut Tintrup, Joachim Kirsch, Mia C. Nichol, Jochen Kuhse, Heinrich Betz, Joshua R. Sanes

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  • Structure of Human Methionine Aminopeptidase-2 Complexed with Fumagillin

    By Shenping Liu, Joanne Widom, Christopher W. Kemp, Craig M. Crews, Jon Clardy

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  • A Structural Explanation for the Recognition of Tyrosine-Based Endocytotic Signals

    By David J. Owen, Philip R. Evans

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  • Reovirus Therapy of Tumors with Activated Ras Pathway

    By Matthew C. Coffey, James E. Strong, Peter A. Forsyth, Patrick W. K. Lee

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  • Role for Cingulate Motor Area Cells in Voluntary Movement Selection Based on Reward

    By Keisetsu Shima, Jun Tanji

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  • Control of Neonatal Tolerance to Tissue Antigens by Peripheral T Cell Trafficking

    By Judith Alferink, Anna Tafuri, Dietmar Vestweber, Rupert Hallmann, Günter J. Hämmerling, Bernd Arnold

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• Technical Comments

  • Detecting Possible Rotation of Earth's Inner Core

    By Paul G. Richards, Xiaodong Song, Anyi Li

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