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June 1998

Volume 51, Issue 6

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Select this Article		Polymer Rheology Daniel De Kee and Kurt F. Wissbrun


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Select this Article		The Magic of Helium‐3 in Two, or Nearly Two, Dimensions Robert B. Hallock


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Select this Article		The Hipparcos Astrometry Mission Michael Perryman


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Stephen G. Benka, Phillip F. Schewe, and Benjamin P. Stein


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Nibbling the Bullet Daniel Kleppner


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Claims of Success in Using Geoelectrical Precursors to Predict Earthquakes Are Criticized—and Defended George Stavrakakis, Robert J. Geller, David D. Jackson, Yan Y. Kagan, Francesco Mulargia, Stathis C. Stiros, Stavros A. Anagnostopoulos, Panayiotis Varotsos, Nicholas Sarlis, and Mary Lazaridou


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Select this Article		US Groups Used the Rights Stuff to Support Fired Cubans Joseph L. Birman


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Very Distant Supernovae Suggest that the Cosmic Expansion is Speeding Up Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Are Stripes a Universal Feature of High‐T_c Superconductors? Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Materials of a Different Stripe Barbara Goss Levi


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar Abner Shimony and N. David Mermin, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Physics in the Nineteenth Century Robert D. Purrington and L. Pearce Williams, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Encyclopedia of Acoustics Malcolm J. Crocker and Robert T. Beyer, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Electronic Imaging in Astronomy: Detectors and Instrumentation Ian S. McLean and Gordon Walker, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Relativity and Gravitation Philippe Tourrenc and Clifford M. Will, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Atlas of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen Dap Hartmann, W. B. Burton, and Frank J. Kerr, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Simulations for Solid State Physics: An Interactive Resource for Students and Teachers Robert H. Silsbee, Jörg Dräger, Ivan K. Schuller, and David A. Rabson, Reviewer


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Select this Article		X‐Ray Binaries Walter H. G. Lewin, Jan van Paradijs, Edward P. J. van den Heuvel, and Christine Jones, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Role of the Sun in Climate Change Douglas V. Hoyt, Kenneth H. Schatten, and Edgar A. Bering, III, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Shadow of a Star: The Neutrino Story of Supernova 1987A Alfred K. Mann and Edward W. Kolb, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Vacuum Technology LAWRENCE G. RUBIN


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Franklin Institute Bestows Medals


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Select this Article		Flannery, Datz and Crim Honored by APS


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Select this Article		Optical Society of America Announces Awards for 1998


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Select this Article		Awards Given at ‘Physics Without Borders’ Meeting


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Select this Article		German Physical Society Gives Annual Awards


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Max Dresden Peter B. Kahn, Chen Ning Yang, Martin L. Perl, and Helen R. Quinn


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Select this Article FREE		Hugh Guthrie Flynn Edwin L. Carstensen and Charles C. Church


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Select this Article FREE		Marko Vukobrat Jarić Glenn Agnolet, Wayne Saslow, Milivoj Belic, Joseph Birman, and Simon Moss


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Select this Article FREE		Andrew Gerasimos Michalitsianos Demosthenes Kazanas and Steven Maran


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Select this Article FREE		Mary Clare Milward O'brien Frank S. Ham and C. Clifton Chancey


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CAREER CHOICES

Select this Article		Those Who Can, Teach Jean Kumagai


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		In Retirement, Jack Gibbons Returns to His Roots—A Gentleman Farmer and Science Policy Exponent


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Select this Article		At White House, Stephen Hawking Enthralls Clintons and Guests with Cyber‐Lecture on Physics Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Dispatches Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Ins & Outs: Science Board Election; New Faces at DOD, NSF, OMB Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		As Part of DOE's Quest for Fusion, Sandia Wants a Bigger Pulsed Power Machine Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Arecibo Observatory and Motorola Strike Deal for Sharing the Spectrum Toni Feder


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Select this Article		OSA and SPIE Consider a Merger


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Select this Article		Kennicutt is New AAS Vice President


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Select this Article		…and Brian Makes Seven 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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