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16 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5878, Pages 845-954

* News of the Week

- LATIN AMERICA: Price Is the Main Barrier to Wider Use of Papillomavirus Vaccine

- ITALY: A Plea for 'Transparent' Funding

A furor over political meddling in grants for stem cell research in Italy has erupted into a broad protest about favoritism and the lack of peer review in deciding who receives national science funding.

* News Focus

- ENTOMOLOGY: A Mosquito Goes Global

- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Layers Within Layers Hint at a Wobbly Martian Climate

- CHEMISTRY: Click Chemistry Clicks Along

Researchers seeking new ways to forge molecules are saving steps and effort by adapting high-yield reactions to fill a variety of needs.

- PHYSICS: The Hot Question: How New Are the New Superconductors?

* Letters

- Financing Tropical Forest Preservation

* Books et al.

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 9, 2008.

* Perspectives

- CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS: Integrating Circadian Timekeeping with Cellular Physiology

- PLANT SCIENCE: Plant Stress Profiles

- CHEMISTRY: The Changing Shapes of Molecules

- GEOCHEMISTRY: The Origin of Alkaline Lavas

- CHEMISTRY: To Be or Not to Be Localized

The hole created by emission of a core electron in a diatomic molecule resides in an entangled state.

- BIOPHYSICS: The Intrigue of the Interface

* Brevia

- The Energetic Cost of Climbing in Primates

* Reports

- Measuring Picosecond Isomerization Kinetics via Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy

- Genome-Scale Proteomics Reveals Arabidopsis thaliana Gene Models and Proteome Dynamics

- Early Forebrain Wiring: Genetic Dissection Using Conditional Celsr3 Mutant Mice

* Technical Comments:

- Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"

- Response to Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"

9 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5877, Pages 713-815

* News of the Week

- GENOMICS: Genome Speaks to Transitional Nature of Monotremes

* News Focus

- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Into the Wild: Reintroduced Animals Face Daunting Odds

* Books et al.

- A listing of books received at Science during the week ended May 2, 2008.

* Policy Forum

- PUBLIC HEALTH: Reassessing HIV Prevention

* Perspectives

- PHYSICS: Designer Atomic Nuclei

- ECOLOGY: How the Sahara Became Dry

- AIDS/HIV: A STEP into Darkness or Light?

- BIOCHEMISTRY: Tinkering with Acellular Division

- BIOGEOCHEMISTRY: News About Nitrogen

* Reviews

- Toward an AIDS Vaccine

* Research Article

- Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years

A climate record from lake sediments in Chad shows that the Sahara changed gradually from a tropical ecosystem to a desert, not abruptly as implied by Atlantic dust layers

* Reports

- Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot

- Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage

- Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America

- Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population

- Regulation of the Cellular Heat Shock Response in Caenorhabditis elegans by Thermosensory Neurons