Contents

Contents

• This Week in Science

  • Research in Science journals.

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• Editorial

  • The Rise and Fall of Mir

    By Roald Z. Sagdeev

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• Editors' Choice

  • This week in other journals.

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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

  • Flagship E.U. Research Program Aims for Pan-European Panacea

    By Robert Koenig

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  • U.K. Outbreak Is Latest in Global Epidemic

    By John Pickrell, Martin Enserink

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  • NIH Gets Big Boost; Lobbyists Want More

    By David Malakoff

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  • Query by Congress Halts New Policy

    By Jocelyn Kaiser

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  • Cosmic Misfits Elude Star-Formation Theories

    By Dennis Normile

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  • Two Honored, Other Prizes Go Unclaimed

    By Yimin Ding

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  • Work Starts on First Science Satellite

    By Pallava Bagla

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  • Possible New Route to Polyketide Synthesis

    By Dan Ferber

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  • Nobel Laureates Lobby for Stem Cells

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Working Memory Helps the Mind Focus

    By Ingrid Wickelgren

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  • New Industry Taxes Boost Science Budget

    By Cassio Leite Vieira

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• ScienceScope

  • ScienceScope

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• Random Samples

  • Random Samples

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• News Focus

  • AIDS Vaccines Show Promise After Years of Frustration

    By Jon Cohen

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  • Sublimating Egos for a Common Goal

    By Jon Cohen

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  • Lake Vostok: Stirred, Not Shaken

    By Robert Irion

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  • Stem Cells Make Brain Cells

    By Evelyn Strauss

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  • The Melting Snows of Kilimanjaro

    By Robert Irion

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  • The Flip Side of Obesity Research

    By Martin Enserink

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  • Fighting Diplomatic Technophobia

    By Andrew Lawler

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  • After a Setback, Gene Therapy Progresses ... Gingerly

    By Trisha Gura

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• Letters

  • This Week's Letters

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  • Were There Duikers in Ancient Egypt?

    By Nicolas Manlius

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  • Newest Member of the NIH Family

    By Shu Chien, C. Douglas Maynard

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  • Math Melodrama Rings of Reality

    By W. Wistar Comfort, Philipp Rothmaler

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  • Fundamental Criteria of Nobel Prizes

    By Rodney E. Ulane

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  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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• Books

  • Fascinations of the Third Domain

    By W. Ford Doolittle

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  • Another World Food Scare?

    By John H. Sanders

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  • Browsings

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  • Books Received

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• Essays on Science and Society

  • Monkeys in the Back Garden

    By Alison Jolly

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• Perspectives

  • Which Mammalian Supertree to Bark Up?

    By Mark S. Springer, Wilfried W. de Jong

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  • Stepping It Up

    By John R. Scheffer, Carl Scott

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  • The Art of Making a Joint

    By François Spitz, Denis Duboule

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  • When the Compass Stopped Reversing Its Poles

    By Subir K. Banerjee

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  • Probing the Early Universe with the SZ Effect

    By Marshall Joy, John E. Carlstrom

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  • Some Importin News About Spindle Assembly

    By Jason A. Kahana, Don W. Cleveland

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  • Nota Bene: Wolbachia and Wasp Evolution

    By Orla Smith

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• Research Article

  • An Iron-Regulated Ferric Reductase Associated with the Absorption of Dietary Iron

    By Andrew T. McKie, Dalna Barrow, Gladys O. Latunde-Dada, Andreas Rolfs, Giamal Sager, Elida Mudaly, Melitta Mudaly, Christopher Richardson, David Barlow, Adrian Bomford, Timothy J. Peters, Kishor B. Raja, Sima Shirali, Matthias A. Hediger, Farzin Farzaneh, Robert J. Simpson

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• Reports

  • Spins in the Vortices of a High-Temperature Superconductor

    By B. Lake, G. Aeppli, K. N. Clausen, D. F. McMorrow, K. Lefmann, N. E. Hussey, N. Mangkorntong, M. Nohara, H. Takagi, T. E. Mason, A. Schröder

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  • Submicrometer Patterning of Charge in Thin-Film Electrets

    By Heiko O. Jacobs, George M. Whitesides

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  • Fluorous Mixture Synthesis: A Fluorous-Tagging Strategy for the Synthesis and Separation of Mixtures of Organic Compounds

    By Zhiyong Luo, Qisheng Zhang, Yoji Oderaotoshi, Dennis P. Curran

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  • Reversible Surface Morphology Changes of a Photochromic Diarylethene Single Crystal by Photoirradiation

    By Masahiro Irie, Seiya Kobatake, Masashi Horichi

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  • Ablation, Flux, and Atmospheric Implications of Meteors Inferred from Stratospheric Aerosol

    By D. J. Cziczo, D. S. Thomson, D. M. Murphy

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  • A New Astrophysical Setting for Chondrule Formation

    By Alexander N. Krot, Anders Meibom, Sara S. Russell, Conel M. O'D. Alexander, Timothy E. Jeffries, Klaus Keil

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  • High Geomagnetic Intensity During the Mid-Cretaceous from Thellier Analyses of Single Plagioclase Crystals

    By John A. Tarduno, Rory D. Cottrell, Alexei V. Smirnov

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  • An Antimicrobial Peptide Gene Found in the Male Reproductive System of Rats

    By Peng Li, Hsiao Chang Chan, Bin He, Siu Cheung So, Yiu Wa Chung, Quan Shang, You-Duan Zhang, Yong-Lian Zhang

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  • Molecular and Morphological Supertrees for Eutherian (Placental) Mammals

    By Fu-Guo Robert Liu, Michael M. Miyamoto, Nicole P. Freire, Phong Q. Ong, Michele R. Tennant, Timothy S. Young, Kikumi F. Gugel

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  • Biosynthesis of Complex Polyketides in a Metabolically Engineered Strain of E. coli

    By Blaine A. Pfeifer, Suzanne J. Admiraal, Hugo Gramajo, David E. Cane, Chaitan Khosla

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  • Structural Mechanism of Endosome Docking by the FYVE Domain

    By Tatiana Kutateladze, Michael Overduin

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  • Living with Genome Instability: Plant Responses to Telomere Dysfunction

    By Karel Riha, Thomas D. McKnight, Lawrence R. Griffing, Dorothy E. Shippen

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  • Role of the Sphingosine-1-Phosphate Receptor EDG-1 in PDGF-Induced Cell Motility

    By John P. Hobson, Hans M. Rosenfeldt, Larry S. Barak, Ana Olivera, Samantha Poulton, Marc G. Caron, Sheldon Milstien, Sarah Spiegel

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  • The Role of Working Memory in Visual Selective Attention

    By Jan W. de Fockert, Geraint Rees, Christopher D. Frith, Nilli Lavie

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