A Nobel Tale of Postwar Injustice

Nonclassical Excitation in Spectroscopy with Squeezed Light

Information Warfare: A Brief Guide to Defense Preparedness

Physics Update

Singularities and Blowups

Math Is Key to Identifying Source of ‘Strange Foot‐Print’

Pioneer Recalls How Computers Replaced Handwork at Oak Ridge

Peer Instruction Not Peerless; Students Should Memorize More

Did Landau Work—or Not Work—on the Soviet H‐Bomb?

Unorthodox Parallel Revealed between Sarov and Los Alamos

Ranking the Physics Departments—and the Weighting Game

Why Do Minicomets Bombard Earth but Not Moon, Other Planets?

The ‘Search for the New’: Looking Back at 50 Years of Physics

Arnold Siegert Remembered

Math Is Indeed a Key Part of Introductory Physics Textbook

Corrections

Experiments Find Hysteresis and Precursors in the Stick‐Slip Friction of a Granular System

Hipparcos Parallax Data May Reconcile Ages of Globular Clusters and the Universe

Infrared Laser Illustrates Another Way to Achieve Gain

Radio Telescope in Space Maps Quasar Jet

San Jose Will Host AVS in October

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla—Biography of a Genius

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics

Introduction to the Theory of Ferromagnetism

Theory of Nuclear Reactions

Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe

The Magnetic Field of the Earth: Paleomagnetism, the Core, and the Deep Mantle

Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics

New Books

Focus on Semiconductor Technology

AAPM Recognizes Achievements in Medical Physics

Canadian Physicists Honored

In Brief

Robert Henry Dicke

Carl Edward Sagan

Ernest Charles Pollard

Robert Benjamin Leighton

Marcus Gerhardt Langseth

Richard Tousey

Roger John Tayler

Richard Nathaniel Watts

Paul Adams Beck

Shang Yi Ch'en

Brewing the Perfect Pint

Era of Good Feeling for Balanced‐Budget Act Extends to FY 1998 Funding for R&D Agencies

Fallout of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in 1950s and 1960s Exposed More People to Iodine‐131 than Chernobyl Accident

Garwin Uses Fermi Prize Event to Recommend Decisive Actions

Washington Dispatches

Washington Ins & Outs: Key Posts Filled at DOE and NSF

NASA Sets Ambitious Strategic Plan for Space Science

Threatened with Closure, the Royal Greenwich Observatory May Yet be Saved

Newest Noaa Research Ship Studies Pacific Rainfall

Bréchignac Becomes First Woman to Head CNRS

A Physicist, Rexhep Mejdani, Now Leads Albania

Board Grants Massachusetts Physics Programs a Reprieve

In Brief

Canada Hosts 1997 Physics Olympiad