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Select this Article		Probing the Faintest Galaxies Henry C. Ferguson, Robert E. Williams, and Lennox L. Cowie


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Select this Article		Patent Basics for Physicists A. James Richardson and Craig A. Wood


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	+ -	Show Topic In an age when scientific knowledge is increasingly being treated as a form of property, a general understanding of patents is becoming a necessity for the physicist.

Select this Article		Vortex Physics in High‐Temperature Superconductors George W. Crabtree and David R. Nelson


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	+ -	Show Topic Our understanding of vortex matter in superconductors has grown dramatically in the last decade, creating new horizons in fundamental science and potential commercial applications.

PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Chemistry: Blithe Sibling of Physics Dudley Herschbach


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Traditional versus Nontraditional Approaches to Introductory Physics Prove to Be a Textbook Case Robert Jones, James M. Daniels, Robert Chasnov, Ruth W. Chabay, Bruce A. Sherwood, David J. Raymond, Alan M. Blyth, and Joseph Amato


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Select this Article		Cat Tales Reveal Footnotes to History that Give One Pause Jack H. Hetherington, Robert J. von Gutfeld, William R. Hitchens, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Daniel Kleppner


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Select this Article		Model Needed for West Coast Freeway Traffic Doing the Wave Michael C. Thusen


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Atomic Parity Experiment Has Its Moment Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		HERA Groups Find Excess Deep Inelastic e⁺p Scattering Events Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Transient Stellar X‐Ray Sources Yield Evidence that Black Holes Really Do Have Event Horizons Bertram Schwarzschild


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	+ -	Show Topic When we see a lot of mass crammed into a small enough space, general relativity tells us it has to be a black hole. But until now, we've never had direct evidence of an event horizon.

Select this Article		High‐Gain Avalanche Photodiode Barbara Goss Levi


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OPINION

Select this Article		A Physical Heritage of the Cold War: Excess Weapons Plutonium Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Physics: Calculus Eugene Hecht, Amy J. Kolan, Reviewer, and Amy E. Larson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Stalin's Captive: Nikolaus Riehl and the Soviet Race for the Bomb Nikolaus Riehl, Frederick Seitz, and Alexei Kojevnikov, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Spiral Structure in Galaxies: A Density Wave Theory Giuseppe Bertin, Chia‐Ch'iao Lin, and Bruce G. Elmegreen, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Peer Instruction: A User's Manual Eric Mazur and Robert C. Hilborn, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Fragile Objects: Soft Matter, Hard Science, and the Thrill of Discovery Pierre‐Gilles de Gennes, Jacques Badoz, and Michael Rubinstein, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Microscopy


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Lawrence Awards Honor Work in Atomic Energy


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Select this Article		AGU Honors Eight in San Francisco


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Select this Article		Engineering Academy Names New Members


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Charles Palmer Bean Ivar Giaever


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Select this Article FREE		Gottfried Karl Wehner Gerhard Betz and Peter Sigmund


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Select this Article FREE		Walter Carl Beckham Eugene H. Canfield, Arthur H. Guenther, and Clifford E. Rhoades, Jr


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		After Two Years of Budget Battles on Capitol Hill, Clinton's R&D Plan for 1998 Gets Surprising Support Irwin Goodwin See Also: Erratum


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Select this Article		Coalition of Science and Engineering Societies Protests Clinton's R&D Budget Request and Urges a 7% Solution Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		New Lab Takes Molecular Approach to Nuclear Waste Cleanup Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Puebla Site Chosen for Joint US–Mexican Radio Telescope Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Interactive Journal Is Launched on the Web Toni Feder


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Select this Article		In Brief


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Select this Article		Web Watch Graham P. Collins


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