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<jats:p>This month, scores of interviewers dispersed across China for the start of a study that aims to document everything from emotional stress to family planning. The project should provide abundant fodder for data-starved social scientists hoping to track how China's rapid development is shaping societal values.</jats:p>

<jats:p> 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/328/5978/633">633</jats:ext-link> of this week's issue of <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , researchers describe the sequence of the Western clawed frog, <jats:italic>Xenopus tropicalis</jats:italic> , the first member of the amphibian branch of the tree of life whose genome has been sequenced. </jats:p>

<jats:p>In a bid to tighten the organization's grip on its members' whaling and reduce the number of whales killed, the International Whaling Commission has proposed that in exchange for temporarily narrowing loopholes, Japan, Norway, and Iceland would be allowed to commercially hunt whales for 10 years.</jats:p>

<jats:p>After a 6-year legal battle, Arizona State University has now agreed to return more than 100 DNA samples to the Havasupai, a tiny tribe of Native Americans who charged that their DNA had been collected by university researchers without proper consent, and pay $700,000, among other concessions.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW reported this week that chimps grieve over dead relatives, dark matter halos look like footballs, elephants have an alarm call for bees, and monster eruptions warmed the world, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Disease specialists have launched an emergency operation in western China to avert a possible outbreak of pneumonic plague in the wake of a magnitude-6.9 earthquake in Qinghai Province.</jats:p>