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November 1994

Volume 47, Issue 11

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Special Issue: Physics and the Environment

Robert H. Socolow
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Human Impacts on the Nitrogren Cycle

Ann P. Kinzig and Robert H. Socolow
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Fertilizer production ond other human activities have more than doubled the global rate of nitrogen fixation since preindustrial times. The resulting imbalance is contributing to ecosystem disruption, ozone depletion, greenhouse effects and other environmental problems.

Clouds and Their Effects on the Climate System

Jeffrey T. Kiehl
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Covering the Earth on scales as large as millions of square kilometers, airborne water particles transport energy and affect the balance between incoming and outgoing radiation.

The Ocean's Overturning Circulation

J. Robert Toggweiler
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Each second millions of cubic meters of water circulate between the ocean's surface and its depths. Despite the crucial role this ‘overturning’ may play in regulating Earth's climate, we still do not know how vulnerable it is to anthropogenic environmental changes.

Fuel Cells: Energy Conversion for the Next Century

Sivan Kartha and Patrick Grimes
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What the world needs now is an environmentally benign way to generate electric power efficiently. The emerging technology of fuel cells is rising to meet the challenge.

Industrial Ecology: Minimizing the Impact of Industrial Waste

Robert A. Frosch
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With the environment in jeopardy, we need to reconsider the design of products and the organization of industrial and consumer markets with recycling in mind.
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Ease Students’ Path to Industry, and Vice Versa

Alfred L. Ritter and Jeffrey H. Hunt
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Is Boltzmann Entropy Time's Arrow's Archer?

Howard Barnum, Carlton M. Caves, Christopher Fuchs, Rüdiger Schack, Dean J. Driebe, William G. Hoover, Harald Posch, Brad Lee Holian, Rudolf Peierls, and Joel L. Lebowitz
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Working Retirements Can Open up Jobs

Murray Peshkin
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An Undersung Hero of Sonoluminescence

Lawrence Crum
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What's Wrong with this Punctuation?

David Mermin
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Langmuir Obit Erratum

Charles A. Barnes and Roy W. Gould
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Correction

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The Advanced Neutron Source Knocks at the Door of Congress

Barbara Goss Levi
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HERA is Now Running with Longitudinally Polarized Positrons

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Is the Noise of Overhead Neighbors Inescapable?

Stephen G. Benka


See Also: Erratum

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MRS Returns to Boston for Fall Meeting

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Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Kip S. Thorne, Vladimir Braginsky, Reviewer, and Vitaly Ginzburg, Reviewer
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The President's Scientists: Reminiscences of a White House Science Advisor

D. Allan Bromley and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Reviewer
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Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics

Henry P. Stapp and Daniel M. Greenberger, Reviewer
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Wavelets: Mathematics and Applications

John J. Benedetto, Michael W. Frazier, and Bruno Torrésani, Reviewer
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Computational Ocean Acoustics

F. B. Jensen, W. A. Kuperman, M. B. Porter, H. Schmidt, and Alexandra Tolstoy, Reviewer
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Analytical Fluid Dynamics

George Emanuel and Daniel Bershader, Reviewer
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Introduction to Quantum Field Theory

George Sterman and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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New Books

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New Products

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The White House Awards National Medals of Science

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APS Bestows Honors at Fall Meetings

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Dyson Receives 1994 Fermi Award

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SOR Presents Bingham Medal to Acrivos

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In Brief

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Allyn C. Vine

J. Lamar Worzel
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Josef Meixner

Friedrich Schlögl
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Ramabhadra Vasudevan

K. Srinivasa Rao and R. Sridhar
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Joseph Morgan

Harrison M. Moseley
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William E. Vehse

Bernard Cooper, Martin Ferer, Carl Rotter, and William Sibley
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Clinton Philosophy Transforms NIST into ‘Partner for Industry’

Denis F. Cioffi
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Physics by Any Other Name…

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DOE Moving to Preserve Nuclear Weapons Know‐How

Denis F. Cioffi
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Collaborators Await European Approval of LHC

William Sweet
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Soros's International Science Foundation to Serve as a Conduit of Aid to the FSU

Denis F. Cioffi
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