Contents

Contents

• This Week in Science

  • Editor summaries of this week's papers.

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• Editorial

  • HIV/AIDS: The Peril of Pseudoscience

    By M. W. Makgoba

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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

  • NEW PRODUCTS

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• News of the Week

  • And the Gene Number Is ...?

    By Elizabeth Pennisi

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  • Fly's Eye Spies Highs in Cosmic Rays' Demise

    By Charles Seife

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  • Orangutans Face Extinction in the Wild

    By Dan Ferber

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  • Spain Opens Coffers to Keep Talent at Home

    By Michael Hagmann

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  • California Team to Map Rare Species' DNA

    By Richard Stone

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  • Electromagnetic Tiles May Cut Turbulence

    By Mark Sincell

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  • Hairpins Trigger an Automatic Solution

    By Adrian Cho

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  • Exposure Levels Tracked Around Nuclear Accident

    By Dennis Normile

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  • Harvard Researcher Named NEJM Editor

    By Constance Holden

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  • NIH Headed for Big Boost, Others Struggle

    By Andrew Lawler

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• ScienceScope

  • ScienceScope

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• Random Samples

  • Random Samples

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• News Focus

  • Learning the World's Languages--Before They Vanish

    By Bernice Wuethrich

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  • Peering Into the Past, With Words

    By Bernice Wuethrich

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  • Zebrafish Earns Its Stripes in Genetic Screens

    By Gretchen Vogel

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  • Lee's Special Status Fuels Academy's Rising Reputation

    By Dennis Normile

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  • Researchers Say New Institutes Offer Them a Chance 'To Do Good Science'

    By Dennis Normile

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  • Everglades Restoration Plan Hits Rough Waters

    By Keith Kloor

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  • GENETICS

    • Algorithmic Gladiators Vie for Digital Glory

      By Charles Seife

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• Letters

  • This Week's Letters

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  • A Home for Bambiraptor

    By Kevin Padian

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  • Intellectual Property Rights

    By Vijaykumar S. Kasi

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  • Is There an Intrinsic Period of the Circadian Clock?

    By Scott Campbell

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  • CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

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• Books

  • Drug Stories--of Origins and Uses

    By S. J. Enna

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  • Ancient Reasons for Monsters

    By Mott T. Greene

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  • Books Received

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• Policy Forum

  • A Nuclear Solution to Climate Change?

    By William C. Sailor, David Bodansky, Chaim Braun, Steve Fetter, Bob van der Zwaan

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• Perspectives

  • Mount St. Helens, Master Teacher

    By Christopher G. Newhall

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  • Messages from a Mountain

    By Jerry F. Franklin, James A. MacMahon

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  • Sinless Originals

    By Olivia P. Judson, Benjamin B. Normark

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  • When Being Hyper Keeps You Fit

    By Paul B. Rainey, E. Richard Moxon

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• Tech.Sight

  • Neuromorphic Vision Sensors

    By Giacomo Indiveri, Rodney Douglas

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  • A Frozen Database

    By Yiannis A. Ioannou

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  • Seeing the Physics of Chemistry

    By John Wass

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  • Work in Progress

    By Kevin Ahern

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  • Atomic Power

    By Kevin Ahern

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• Research Articles

  • Evidence for the Evolution of Bdelloid Rotifers Without Sexual Reproduction or Genetic Exchange

    By David B. Mark Welch, Matthew Meselson

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  • Rocks from the Mantle Transition Zone: Majorite-Bearing Xenoliths from Malaita, Southwest Pacific

    By Kenneth D. Collerson, Sarath Hapugoda, Balz S. Kamber, Quentin Williams

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• Reports

  • Molecular Computation by DNA Hairpin Formation

    By Kensaku Sakamoto, Hidetaka Gouzu, Ken Komiya, Daisuke Kiga, Shigeyuki Yokoyama, Takashi Yokomori, Masami Hagiya

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  • Coalescence of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

    By M. Terrones, H. Terrones, F. Banhart, J.-C. Charlier, P. M. Ajayan

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  • Suppressing Wall Turbulence by Means of a Transverse Traveling Wave

    By Yiqing Du, George Em Karniadakis

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  • The Spin Excitation Spectrum in Superconducting YBa₂Cu₃O_6.85

    By P. Bourges, Y. Sidis, H. F. Fong, L. P. Regnault, J. Bossy, A. Ivanov, B. Keimer

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  • Propagation of Seismic Ground Motion in the Kanto Basin, Japan

    By Kazuki Koketsu, Masayuki Kikuchi

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  • Evolutionary Exploitation of Design Options by the First Animals with Hard Skeletons

    By R. D. K. Thomas, Rebecca M. Shearman, Graham W. Stewart

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  • Distinct Classes of Yeast Promoters Revealed by Differential TAF Recruitment

    By Xiao-Yong Li, Sukesh R. Bhaumik, Michael R. Green

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  • TAF-Containing and TAF-Independent Forms of Transcriptionally Active TBP in Vivo

    By Laurent Kuras, Peter Kosa, Mario Mencia, Kevin Struhl

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  • A Mutation in PRKAG3 Associated with Excess Glycogen Content in Pig Skeletal Muscle

    By Denis Milan, Jin-Tae Jeon, Christian Looft, Valerie Amarger, Annie Robic, Mattias Thelander, Claire Rogel-Gaillard, Sven Paul, Nathalie Iannuccelli, Lars Rask, Hans Ronne, Kerstin Lundström, Norbert Reinsch, Joel Gellin, Ernst Kalm, Pascale Le Roy, Patrick Chardon, Leif Andersson

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  • High Frequency of Hypermutable Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infection

    By Antonio Oliver, Rafael Cantón, Pilar Campo, Fernando Baquero, Jesús Blázquez

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  • Role for Rapid Dendritic Protein Synthesis in Hippocampal mGluR-Dependent Long-Term Depression

    By Kimberly M. Huber, Matthew S. Kayser, Mark F. Bear

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  • Impaired Prion Replication in Spleens of Mice Lacking Functional Follicular Dendritic Cells

    By Fabio Montrasio, Rico Frigg, Markus Glatzel, Michael A. Klein, Fabienne Mackay, Adriano Aguzzi, Charles Weissmann

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• Technical Comments

  • Diversity of Human αβ T Cell Receptors

    By Can Keşmir, José A.M. Borghans, Rob J. de Boer

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