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<jats:p>Iranian physicist Farhad Ardalan has spent enough time in the United States to regard it as his second home. But a case of apparent mistaken identity may prevent him from ever visiting his adopted country again.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Phil Jones is at the center of a swirling controversy over e-mails stolen or leaked from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, which he has directed since 2004. <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> interviewed him last week. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Proposed revisions for the American Psychiatric Association's <jats:italic>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</jats:italic> include for the first time "behavioral addictions"—a change some say is long overdue and others say is still premature. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A scientific study of the benefits and harms of screening women in their 40s got buried by the politics of health-care reform.</jats:p>

<jats:p>China thought it had licked leprosy 10 years ago, but the disease is stubbornly hanging on in poor, rural areas of three southwestern provinces, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A British mycologist and a local businessperson have launched a pharmaceutical venture grounded in a Buddhist reverence for the environment.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At the Joint Mathematics Meetings, researchers reported the first sighting of a "perfect parallelepiped," a brick whose sides are allowed to be parallelograms rather than strict 90º rectangles and all 13 of whose edges and diagonals are exact integers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>At the Joint Mathematics Meetings, mathematical voting theorists described a recent case study that suggests different voting systems only rarely produce the vastly different results possible in theory.</jats:p>

<jats:p>One of mathematicians' most beloved Web sites is getting ready for a makeover, it was reported at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, established by Neil Sloane at AT&amp;T Labs Research in 1996 and run largely as a one-man shop, is poised to go "wiki," with 50 associate editors taking over much of the workload.</jats:p>