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This Week in Science
Editor summaries of this week's papers.
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Editorial:
Development and Climate Change
Rosina M. Bierbaum and Robert B. Zoellick
Science 6 November 2009: 771.
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Editors' Choice
Highlights of the recent literature.
Science 6 November 2009: 773.
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Science Podcast
Science 6 November 2009: 875.

The show includes an unusual supernova, the origins of religion, your Letters to Science, and more.
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New Products
Science 6 November 2009: 875.

A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.
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News of the Week
Physics
Helium-3 Shortage Could Put Freeze On Low-Temperature Research
Adrian Cho
Science 6 November 2009: 778-779.

A shortfall of helium-3, the lighter isotope of the most inert element, threatens several research fields, and the Department of Energy, the major supplier, is releasing the gas, which is used in neutron detectors that help prevent the smuggling of plutonium and other radioactive materials into the country, only to researchers with U.S. funding.
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U.S. Science Policy
Peer Review Not Popular at Homeland Security
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Science 6 November 2009: 779.

An analysis of the Department of Homeland Security's $1 billion science and technology directorate has found that very little of its basic science research budget was awarded using peer review.
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Stem Cells
CIRM Awards Seek to Move Cell Therapies to the Clinic
Jocelyn Kaiser
Science 6 November 2009: 780-781.

Five years after it launched, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) last week awarded its first disease-oriented grants—$230 million to 14 teams—intended to speed stem cell therapies to patients.
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Privacy
Court Orders Stanford Expert to Surrender Manuscript
Sam Kean
Science 6 November 2009: 780-781.

A Stanford University professor is fighting to keep his unpublished book manuscript out of the hands of tobacco company R.J. Reynolds, which subpoenaed it after he testified as an expert witness for smokers who are suing the company.
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ScienceNOW.org
From Science's Online Daily News Site
Science 6 November 2009: 781.

ScienceNOW this week reported on fellatio among fruit bats, the death toll from a pair of man-eating lions, a primordial nuclear age, and the definition of p-value, among other stories.
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Swine Flu Pandemic
Developing Countries to Get Some H1N1 Vaccine—But When?
Martin Enserink
Science 6 November 2009: 782.

The World Health Organization has promised to supply developing countries with H1N1 vaccine donated by manufacturers and rich countries. But it has secured only about 200 million doses for 95 countries that together are home to a third of the world's population.
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Economic Recovery
When Counting Jobs Isn't Enough
Jeffrey Mervis
Science 6 November 2009: 783.

A federal pilot project launched this summer aims not just to improve the tracking of jobs created by the $787 billion stimulus package but also to lay the foundation for a system to measure the impact of research on the U.S. economy.
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ScienceInsider
From the Science Policy Blog
Science 6 November 2009: 783.

ScienceInsider reported this week on the National Institutes of Health's decision to fund 840 of the more than 20,000 applications it received for its vaunted Challenge Grants program and a petition to the United Nations human rights committee to stop the Large Hadron Collider from restarting because of risks that the collisions could create dangerous mini–black holes, among other stories.
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Random Samples
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News Focus
Origins
On the Origin of Religion
Elizabeth Culotta
Science 6 November 2009: 784-787.

How and when did religion arise? In the 11th essay in Science's series in honor of the Year of Darwin, Elizabeth Culotta explores the human propensity to believe in unseen deities.
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20 Years After the Wall
Aufbau Ost: Max Planck's East German Experiment
Gretchen Vogel
Science 6 November 2009: 788-791.

The Max Planck Society's expansion into the former East Germany seeded top science into the region, but challenges remain in making sure the successes take root.
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20 Years After the Wall
Why So Few East German Directors?
Gretchen Vogel
Science 6 November 2009: 791.

The reunification of Germany was a mixed blessing for East German scientists. For many, especially the younger ones, it was a great opportunity (see p. 792). But others were set adrift when entire preexisting eastern institutes were closed or cut to a fraction of their original size.
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20 Years After the Wall: Profile: Hübner Family
Big Dreams Come True
Andrew Curry
Science 6 November 2009: 792-793.

An East German family of scientists reflects on life before and after 1989. The Hübners have become a dynamic demonstration of how the lives of scientists in the former East Germany have changed over the past 2 decades.
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DNA Sequencing
No Genome Left Behind
Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 6 November 2009: 794-795.

A project to sequence 10,000 vertebrates has just been launched, but sequencing technologies are not yet up to the task.
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Letters
Space Goals Require Worldwide Participation
William E. Howard, III
Science 6 November 2009: 797.
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Biobanks: Questioning Distinctions
Mats G. Hansson and Karen J. Maschke
Science 6 November 2009: 797.
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Biobanks: Too Long to Wait for Consent
Kyle B. Brothers and Ellen Wright Clayton
Science 6 November 2009: 798.
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Corrections and Clarifications
Science 6 November 2009: 798.
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Biobanks: Oversight Offers Protection
Kristien Hens, John Wright, and Kris Dierickx
Science 6 November 2009: 798-799.
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Response—Biobanks
David Gurwitz, Isabel Fortier, Jeantine E. Lunshof, and Bartha Maria Knoppers
Science 6 November 2009: 799.
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Research for All Science Teachers
John Dickey
Science 6 November 2009: 799.
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Books et al.
Evolution
Darwin Is Dead—Long Live Evolution
Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
Science 6 November 2009: 800-801.

Exploring Gould's science, politics, and their intersections, Prindle holds that they constitute a consistent whole.
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History of Science
Evolution of the End of Origin
R. W. D. Nickalls
Science 6 November 2009: 801.

Three ancestral texts and the final wording of the last lines of Darwin's Origin.
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Books Received
Science 6 November 2009: 801.