Science Magazine - 2 November 2012

CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
581 The Scientist as World Citizen
Mary-Claire King
NEWS OF THE WEEK
586 A roundup of the week’s top stories
NEWS & ANALYSIS
589 Convictions Leave Italy’s Civil Protection
in Chaos
Immune Reactions Help Reprogram Cells
Flying Dinos and Baby Birds Offer New
Clues About How Avians Took Wing
592 Indonesia to Drop Science for Youngest
Students
593 Cancer Gene Data Casts Doubt on Popular
Research Method
595 U.S. Agencies Feel the Pinch of Travel
Cutbacks
590
591
NEWS FOCUS
596 GLOBAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES
Excellence, Ja, Elitism, Non
>> Science Podcast
600 Putting Rockfish Back Where They Belong
LETTERS
603 Antarctic Treaty System Ready
for a Challenge
M. Haward et al.
China’s Wastewater Treatment Goals
Z. Wang
Denuclearization’s Indirect Consequences
S. D. Fam et al.
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS
TECHNICAL COMMENT ABSTRACTS
604
604
BOOKS ET AL.
607 The Science of Human Perfection
N. Comfort, reviewed by A. N. H. Creager
E. Coen, reviewed by M. D. Laubichler
POLICY FORUM
610 Obama and the Promotion
of International Science
T. J. Bollyky and P. L. Bollyky
612 Optimizing Investments in
Malaria Treatment and Diagnosis
J. M. Cohen et al.
615 From Financing to Fevers: Lessons
of an Antimalarial Subsidy Program
R. Laxminarayan et al.
>> Science Podcast
PERSPECTIVES
617 Implications of Scarcity
A. P. Zwane
>> Report p. 682
618 Getting to the Root of Aging
A. Baudisch and J. W. Vaupel
619 How Cichlids Diversify
M. E. Santos and W. Salzburger
621 Quantum Procrastination
S. Lloyd
>> Reports pp. 634 and 637
622 Chloroplast Delivery by UPS
F. Kessler
>> Report p. 655
624 A New Direction for Gene Loops
M. Hampsey
>> Report p. 671
625 Getting Moore from Solar Cells
D. J. Norris and E. S. Aydil
>> Report p. 643
626 Templating a Molecular Tug-of-War
M. R. Diehl
>> Report p. 662
CONTENTS continued >>
Volume 338 Issue 6107
page 596
page 610
pages 617 & 682
COVER
The theme of the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting, 14 to 18 February
in Boston, Massachusetts, is The Beauty and Benefits of Science.
This theme highlights the “unreasonable effectiveness” of the scientific
enterprise in creating economic growth, solving societal problems,
and satisfying the essential human drive to understand the world
in which we live. The preliminary program begins on page 688.
Images (clockwise from top-left): wekwek/iStockphoto; Science Source;
Biophoto Associates/Science Source; Eric Grave/Science Source; NASA;
Ted Kinsman/Science Source
DEPARTMENTS
578 This Week in Science
582 Editors’ Choice
584 Science Staff
687 New Products
688 AAAS Meeting Program
698 Science Careers

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