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August 1989

Volume 42, Issue 8

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New Measurements Standards for 1990

Barry N. Taylor
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On New Year's Day, new practical reference standards for the volt and the ohm will take effect worldwide. Both will be based on highly reproducible quantum effects rather than artifacts. The practical temperature scale will also change.

Reaching the Critical Mass in High School Physics

Michael Neuschatz
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The picture that emerges from the inaugural AIP‐AAPT survey of high school physics teachers is of a program that touches few students—and a select few at that in terms of gender, race, social class and geographic region.

The First Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

Engelbert L. Schucking
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Born at poolside on a summer afternoon, the idea for a Texas‐sized conference blossomed when it was realized that the newly found quasars might be relativistically significant.
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A Week in Beijing

David J. Gross
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Dissenting Opinions about Tayseer Aruri

Moshe Aumann, Yehuda B. Band, Howard D. Greyber, Lawrence Cranberg, Reuben Rudman, Edward Witten, Freeman Dyson, and Richard Wilson
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Mixing Instructions for Invisible Paint?

Isaac Freund, Boris Al'Tshuler, and Patrick A. Lee
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The Disspirit of St. Louis

Stuart Lindsay and William W. Havens, Jr.
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What Vehicle for Ulysses's Odyssey?

D. Edgar Page
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Remember the Third World Reader

Stig Hagstrom, Alwyn Eades, and Fredy R. Zypman
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The Greenhouse and the White House

George W. Graham
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Fluid Membranes Repel One Another; Solid Membranes May Not Crumple

Anil Khurana
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Science for Developing Countries

Mano Singham
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The Tenth Dimension: An Informal History of High Energy Physics

Jeremy Bernstein and Robert March, Reviewer
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Instruments and Experiences: Papers on Measurements and Instrument Design

R. V. Jones and Lawrence G. Rubin, Reviewer
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Pions and Nuclei

Torleif Ericson, Wolfram Weise, and Herman Feshbach
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The Physics of Laser Plasma Interactions

William L. Kruer and John M. Dawson, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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In Brief

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Takeshi Udagawa and Rory Coker
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Hans A. Bethe, James A. Krumhansl, Paul L. Hartman, and Robert L. Sproull
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Murray A. Lampert

Albert Rose, Walter Curtis Johnson, and Ramon U. Martinelli
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Uncertain of Future, Chinese Students Find Helpful Friends in High Places

Irwin Goodwin
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Out of the Wreckage, a 100‐Meter Radiotelescope is Backed by Congress

Corey S. Powell
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US Superconductivity Effort Shapes Up, with Du Pont Emerging a Big Player

William Sweet
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Michigan Team to Join in First Experiment at Soviet Accelerator

William Sweet
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Acoustical Society Elects Powell President

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Delft Seeks Users For Its RF Mass Spectrometer

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AAPT and Soviets Organize High School Exchanges

Pat Janowski
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In Brief

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Gaseous Electronics Prize Established in Honor of Allis

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Fourth Alliances Workshop to Be Held in Northwest

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