Contents

Contents

• This Week in Science

  • Editor summaries of this week's papers.

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• Editorial

  • Sustainable Consumption

    By Norman Myers

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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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• Departments

  • Quarterly Author Index

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  • NEW PRODUCTS

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  • AAAS News & Notes

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• News of the Week

  • Conflict in Congo Threatens Bonobos and Rare Gorillas

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Allègre Loses Job, Research Split Off

    By Michael Balter

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  • Mirror Film Is the Fairest of Them All

    By Robert F. Service

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  • Richardson Puts Laser Project on Short Leash

    By David Malakoff

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  • Chipping Away at the Causes of Aging

    By Jean Marx

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  • Drug-Resistant TB on the Rise

    By Erik Stokstad

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  • Bat Researchers Dispute Rabies Policy

    By Christine Mlot

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  • Austerity Push Begins a Bumpy Ride for R&D

    By Andrew Lawler

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  • Aging NASA Satellite Headed for Fiery End

    By Laura Helmuth

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  • Sky Survey Finds Mysterious Strangers

    By Charles Seife

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  • Physicists Unveil Schrödinger's SQUID

    By Adrian Cho

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  • Lab Accident Damages Solar Flare Satellite

    By Andrew Lawler

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• ScienceScope

  • ScienceScope

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• Random Samples

  • Random Samples

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• News Focus

  • In the Crossfire: Collins on Genomes, Patents, and 'Rivalry'

    By Eliot Marshall, Elizabeth Pennisi, Leslie Roberts

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  • When an Entire Country Is a Cohort

    By Lone Frank

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  • Patent Suit Pits Postdoc Against Former Mentor

    By Eliot Marshall

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  • Oddities Both Lunar and Martian

    By Richard A. Kerr

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• Letters

  • This Week's Letters

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  • Life on Snowball Earth

    By Warwick F. Vincent, Clive Howard-Williams

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  • Asilomar Revisited

    By John Coulter

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  • Untapped Source of Diplomats

    By Peter Cohen

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  • Respect for the Opposition

    By Christopher D. Heinen

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  • pH Values Below Zero

    By William A. Pryor

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  • Close Encounters: Details Veto Depth from Shadows

    By Patrick Cavanagh, John M. Kennedy

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  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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• Books

  • The Human Role in Environmental History

    By Karl W. Butzer

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  • Many Facets of a Noble Dane

    By Nicholas Jardine

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  • Books Received

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• Perspectives

  • Nanomatrices Are Cool

    By Giacinto Scoles, Kevin K. Lehmann

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  • Stars at the Edge of Stability

    By Norbert Langer

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  • RNA Interference

    By Phillip A. Sharp, Phillip D. Zamore

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  • News from the Solar Interior

    By Douglas Gough

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  • Bit Players in the Trombone Orchestra

    By Peter H. von Hippel, Debra H. Jing

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  • Running the Red Light

    By Henri Buc

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  • William Hamilton (1936-2000)

    By David Haig, Naomi E. Pierce, Edward O. Wilson

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• Research Article

  • Giant Birefringent Optics in Multilayer Polymer Mirrors

    By Michael F. Weber, Carl A. Stover, Larry R. Gilbert, Timothy J. Nevitt, Andrew J. Ouderkirk

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• Reports

  • Dynamic Variations at the Base of the Solar Convection Zone

    By R. Howe, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, F. Hill, R. W. Komm, R. M. Larsen, J. Schou, M. J. Thompson, J. Toomre

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  • Isolating the Spectroscopic Signature of a Hydration Shell With the Use of Clusters: Superoxide Tetrahydrate

    By J. Mathias Weber, Jude A. Kelley, Steen B. Nielsen, Patrick Ayotte, Mark A. Johnson

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  • Hot and Dry Deep Crustal Xenoliths from Tibet

    By Bradley R. Hacker, Edwin Gnos, Lothar Ratschbacher, Marty Grove, Michael McWilliams, Stephen V. Sobolev, Jiang Wan, Wu Zhenhan

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  • Global Carbon Sinks and Their Variability Inferred from Atmospheric O₂ and δ¹³C

    By M. Battle, M. L. Bender, P. P. Tans, J. W. C. White, J. T. Ellis, T. Conway, R. J. Francey

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  • On the Presence of Liquid in Earth's Inner Core

    By S. C. Singh, M. A. J. Taylor, J. P. Montagner

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  • Insect Population Control Using a Dominant, Repressible, Lethal Genetic System

    By Dean D. Thomas, Christl A. Donnelly, Roger J. Wood, Luke S. Alphey

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  • bicoid-Independent Formation of Thoracic Segments in Drosophila

    By Ernst A. Wimmer, Alan Carleton, Phoebe Harjes, Terry Turner, Claude Desplan

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  • Necessity for Afferent Activity to Maintain Eye-Specific Segregation in Ferret Lateral Geniculate Nucleus

    By Barbara Chapman

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  • Structure of the RNA Polymerase Domain of E. coli Primase

    By James L. Keck, Daniel D. Roche, A. Simon Lynch, James M. Berger

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  • Mitotic Misregulation and Human Aging

    By Danith H. Ly, David J. Lockhart, Richard A. Lerner, Peter G. Schultz

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  • Similar Requirements of a Plant Symbiont and a Mammalian Pathogen for Prolonged Intracellular Survival

    By K. LeVier, R. W. Phillips, V. K. Grippe, R. M. Roop, II, G. C. Walker

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  • Genetic Requirements for Inheritance of RNAi in C. elegans

    By Alla Grishok, Hiroaki Tabara, Craig C. Mello

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  • Single-Molecule Study of Transcriptional Pausing and Arrest by E. coli RNA Polymerase

    By R. John, Davenport, Gijs J. L. Wuite, Robert Landick, Carlos Bustamante

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  • T Cell-Independent Rescue of B Lymphocytes from Peripheral Immune Tolerance

    By Valerie Kouskoff, Georges Lacaud, David Nemazee

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• Technical Comments

  • Middle Miocene Hominoid Origins

    By David R. Begun

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