SCIENCEWEEK - PART A December 5, 2003 Vol. 7 Number 49A Contents: 1. Origin of Life: Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments 2. Socio-Economic Science: On Human Altruism 3. Medical Biology: Extra-Neural Prion Protein in Brain Disease 4. Theoretical Physics: On the Weakness of Gravity 5. Geophysics: Tidal Stress, Water Wells, and Earthquakes 6. History of Physics: On Astrophysical Understanding =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=