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 | | First-time Science author, Cindy Van Dover, an assistant professor at the College of William and Mary, recalls watching the outline for two companion manuscripts emerge on a ship's flboard, while she was completing field research in the Indian Ocean. |
 | | Tatar chose Science because, he says, "the paper crossed a lot of different disciplines, from aging research to insect physiology, and we wanted to reach a broad audience." He also appreciated the journal's editorially independent status within the nonprofit AAAS, founded in 1848. |
 | | Science's long-standing reputation, as a journal established in 1880 by Thomas A. Edison, was the key for veteran Frank Heppner, too, who says he went with AAAS some 34 years ago for "the prestige, snob value, and career enhancement!" |
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