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<jats:p>Tens of thousands likely perished in what may be the Western Hemisphere's worst disaster in a century. But the devastation of last week's earthquake in Haiti was more the result of lack of infrastructure than the strength of the quake itself, which barely qualified as major.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Fewer but fiercer and more-destructive hurricanes will sweep the Atlantic Basin in the 21st century as climate change continues, a new modeling study by U.S. government researchers, reported 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/327/5964/454">454</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , suggests. </jats:p>

<jats:p>On the minds of many at a meeting last week in the Senegalese capital was the Square Kilometre Array, a next-generation radio telescope that will probe gas clouds in the early universe with a collecting area 100 times that of the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico. It is planned to be built in either Africa or Australia.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, Iranian physicist Masoud Alimohammadi was assassinated by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb outside of his apartment. Iranian authorities characterized the killing as an attempt by U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies to rein in Iran's nuclear program. But colleagues and others believe that the government may actually be the culprit.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week on a new calibration curve that extends radiocarbon dating back 50,000 years, a better design for suspension bridges, why fish gills evolved, and a way to make simple droplets of oil navigate complex labyrinths with the same skill as laboratory rodents, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A long-running feud between pharmaceutical companies and the German institute that evaluates the effectiveness of medical treatments could cost the institute director his job.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Google's declaration last week that it will no longer play ball with Chinese censors has inflamed tensions between backers of the free flow of information and advocates of China's increasingly assertive efforts to cleanse the Internet of offensive material.</jats:p>