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<jats:p>The world's highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, will run at half its maximum energy through 2011 and not at all in 2012, officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, announced last week.</jats:p>

<jats:p> At a press conference here on 9 February, India's environment minister announced a "moratorium" on commercial release of what would have been India's first genetically modified food crop: varieties of eggplant, called brinjal in India, equipped with a protein from the bacterium <jats:italic>Bacillus thuringiensis</jats:italic> that's toxic to insect pests. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that people move faster if they are reacting to another person's movements than if they are taking the lead themselves, that Australia and Antarctica are linked by climate, that thin mountain air may make people thin, and how cancer wreaks havoc on bone, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>National Science Foundation Director Arden Bement announced last week that he will be leaving NSF on 1 June to lead a new public policy institute at Purdue University, where he's been on leave since 2001.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> excerpts a 5 February phone interview with ecologist Christopher Field of the Carnegie Institution for Science, one of the volunteer leaders of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. </jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that a big winner in the recently proposed 2011 federal budget was the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, which received a $300 million boost—$75 million more than the entire Office of Science, the Energy Department's basic research arm—among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p> After more than a decade of labor, the American Psychiatric Association has released draft proposals for the upcoming fifth version of the <jats:italic>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</jats:italic> , the most influential book in psychiatry. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights of the proposed changes for the upcoming fifth version of the <jats:italic>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</jats:italic> ( <jats:italic>DSM-V</jats:italic> ) include psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and addiction and related disorders. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Bone marrow transplants are a last-ditch experiment for many autoimmune diseases. Assessing how and why they work, and whether they can help more patients, is an exercise in perseverance.</jats:p>

<jats:p> In his first—and, he says, last—novel, <jats:italic>Anthill</jats:italic> , Harvard University biologist Edward O. Wilson reaches into his ant drawer and his Alabama past to save an ecosystem. </jats:p>