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<jats:p>As the Copenhagen climate meeting unfolds this week, one key topic will be protecting the world's tropical rainforests. The 1997 Kyoto agreement didn't address the issue of deforestation. Participating nations hope to correct that oversight in the next agreement.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Nine years ago, much of the American Anthropological Association's (AAA's) annual meeting echoed journalist Patrick Tierney in attacking Napoleon A. Chagnon, an anthropologist who studied the Yanamamö Indians of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. At this year's meeting, most of the criticism was leveled at Chagnon's accusers and the AAA itself.</jats:p>

<jats:p> This week, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported that weight gain may result from a loss of genes; why firstborns don't share; monkeys may use grammar; and a quasar that built a galaxy, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) named the first 13 human embryonic stem cell lines approved for federal funding under President Barack Obama's revised policy.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Gene therapy researchers are approaching a key milestone: They appear to have controlled an inherited blood disorder called β-thalassemia that's more common than any disease treated so far with gene therapy.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At a media briefing this week, backers of the proposed £500 million–plus United Kingdom Centre for Medical Research and Innovation affirmed their financial commitments to the project and unveiled architects' drawings and a "scientific vision" for the facility.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that India has created a climate change assessment network that links 220 scientists at 20 institutions and that the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has offered $100 million for the best ideas in the fields of electrofuels, carbon-capture technologies, and high-density battery storage, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> A massive effort to catalog genetic variation among Asians described on page <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/326/5959/1541">1541</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> has concluded that Asia was initially settled by a single wave of migration along the coast. </jats:p>

<jats:p>For 5 months and counting, an Internet blackout has been hobbling the daily routines of thousands of scientists and students in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Conventional solar technologies produce electricity, but most transportation fuel comes from oil. A new class of solar chemical reactors aims to make liquid fuels from air, water, and sunshine.</jats:p>