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July 1991

Volume 44, Issue 7

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US Energy Transition: On Getting from Here to There

John H. Gibbons and Peter D. Blair
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President Bush's recently released National Energy Strategy suggests that the US can meet its future energy needs without pain or tears. Other studies argue that the country can only avoid dysfunction by creating an energy program that is less dependent on foreign supplies and meets three broad, overarching national goals: economic vitality, environmental quality and strategic security.

Handedness, Origin of Life and Evolution

Vladik A. Avetisov, Vladimir V. Kuz'min, and Vitalii I. Goldanskii
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Biological polymers have a preferred chirality and con replicate themselves. Physical arguments provide insight into which of these unique and apparently related properties evolved first, and by what mechanism.

Advice to Beginning Physics Speakers

James C. Garland
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Public speaking is a necessity of professional life. But what do you do if, like many physicists, you're basically a shy person? Here is some advice on how to give talks that won't wreck your career or humiliate your thesis adviser.
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Is Complexity Physics? Is It Science? What is It?

Philip W. Anderson
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Bush Energy Policy at Odds with Efficiency

Albert A. Bartlett
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Is Greenhouse Effect in Ice of the Beholder?

Richard B. Alley, Charles R. Bentley, Edith Borie, and Raphael G. Kazmann
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Batting Around Ideas on Curveball Physics

Robert G. Fleagle and Robert K. Adair
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Geometric Phase's First Formulators

Iwo Bialynicki‐Birula
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Divert SSC Funds to Physics at NSF …

John F. Waymouth
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… or Use Some to Tutor Taxpayers

Daniel M. Smith
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Crediting Some Polymer Pioneers

John T. Bendleer
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Exploding the Big Bang Hypothesis

Halton Arp
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Physics Literacy ‘Experts’ Questioned

Pascal De Caprariis
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Corections

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Editor's Note

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Atoms are the New Wave in Interferometers

Barbara Goss Levi
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Heisenberg: Gesammelte Werke [Collected Works]

W. Blum, H.‐P. Dürr, H. Rechenberg, Valentine L. Telegdi, Reviewer, and Victor F. Weisskopf, Reviewer
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The Mathematics of Projectiles in Sport

Neville De Mestre and Robert K. Adair, Reviewer
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Unification of Fundamental Forces: The First of the 1988 Dirac Memorial Lectures

Abdus Salam and John Ellis, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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APS Awards Honor Outstanding Contributions to Physics

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In Brief

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Howel G. Pugh

David A. Goldberg and Lee S. Schroeder
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Yossef Dothan

Shmuel Nussinov
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An Energy Strategy for All Seasons Gets Rough Treatment in Congress

Irwin Goodwin
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It's Goodbye Drs. Chips, Though Panel Urges Some to Stay

Irwin Goodwin
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AIP Reports on 1990 Salaries of Member‐Society Members

Jean Kumagai
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Astronomical Society Issues Survey of its Membership

Jean Kumagai
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Schrieffer Accepts University‐Wide Position in Florida

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Keck Foundation Funds Duplicate of Keck Telescope

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Utrecht Theory Team Reorganized as Theory Institute

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Langenberg is Elected APS Vice President

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Petit Wins 1991 AIP Science Writing Award

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In Brief

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Congressional Day Brings Physicists to Capitol Hill

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Calendar

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