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July 1998

Volume 51, Issue 7

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The Physics of Ferroelectric Memories

Orlando Auciello, James F. Scott, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh
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The ability of ferroelectric materials to switch robustly from one polarization state to another forms the basis of a new thin film technology for storing data.

Trends in Electromechanical Transduction

Ilene J. Busch‐Vishniac
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The demand for more sophisticated sensors and actuators in industrial equipment and consumer products is behind today's push for new transducer materials and geometries.

Entanglement, Decoherence and the Quantum∕Classical Boundary

Serge Haroche
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Schrodinger intended his gedanken experiment of a hapless cat mortally entangled with a quantum trigger as a reductio ad absurdum. But nowadays such experiments are being realized in laboratories—without offending the antivivisectionists
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Physics Update

Benjamim P. Stein and Phillip F. Schewe
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New Image Approaches Urged for Physicists—and Physics Meetings

Jeremy Levy
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Table‐Top Classical Teleportation Channel Found in East Lansing

Marc Trois
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Error Caused Drop in Ranking of Physics at SUNY at Stony Brook

Janos Kirz and Peter Stephens
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Japanese Researchers Reveal Tomonaga's Path to QED Renormalization

Daisuke Ito and Kazuhiko Nishijima
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Physics Grad Students Should Figure Odds of Getting Faculty Slots

Ben Yu‐Kuang Hu
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Editors Are Key to Improving Journal Articles

Robert B. Griffiths
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Peer Tutoring Proves Successful in Past, Could Be Useful Today

Howard D. Greyber
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DOD Monitors Nuclear Tests Worldwide, Runs CTBT‐Related Web Sites

Richard A. Gustafson
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Physics, Bible Used to Reexamine If Heaven Is Hotter Than Hell

Jorge Mira Pérez and Jose Viña
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Correction

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New Measurements Constrain Models of Mantle Upwelling Along a Midocean Ridge

Barbara Goss Levi
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Magma flowing upward to form fresh crust along the axis of plate spreading does not appear to come exclusively from a narrow zone directly beneath the axis. Rather, molten material is distributed along the ridge in a region more than 100 km wide and over 100 km deep. Moreover, the melt zone is centered to one side of the axis—beneath the faster moving plate.

Strong Evidence for Flavor Oscillation in Atmospheric Neutrinos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Microcalorimeters May Provide a Solution to the Big Problem of Small Contaminants

Ray Ladbury
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In a drive to help the US semiconductor industry, researchers are developing x‐ray spectrometers that will be able not just to identify any element in microscopic contaminants, but also to yield information about the element's chemical state.
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Particle Physics and Our Everyday World

Pablo Jensen
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ACA to Convene in Crystal City

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To Boldly Go: A Practical Career Guide for Scientists; Tomorrow's Professor: Preparing for Academic Careers in Science and Engineering; Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals

Peter S. Fiske, Richard M. Reis, Stephen Rosen, Celia Paul, and Brian B. Schwartz, Reviewer
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Tools of Radio Astronomy and an Introduction to Radio Astronomy

Kristen Rohlfs, Thomas L. Wilson, Bernard F. Burke, Francis Graham‐Smith, and Carl Heiles, Reviewer
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The Theory of Superconductivity in the High‐Tc Cuprates

Philip W. Anderson and Kevin S. Bedell, Reviewer
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Selected Works of Hans A. Bethe: With Commentary

Hans A. Bethe and Kurt Gottfried, Reviewer
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Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers and Nonlinear Physics with Maple for Scientists and Engineers

Richard H. Enns, George C. McGuire, and Randall Tagg, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei

Bradley M. Peterson and Geoffrey Burbidge, Reviewer
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Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics

Don S. Lemons and Paul E. Barbone, Reviewer
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Fractal River Basins: Chance and Self‐Organization

Ignacio Rodriguez‐Iturbe, Andrea Rinaldo, and Ohad Levy, Reviewer
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Computational Physics: Problem Solving with Computers

Rubin H. Landau, Manuel J. Páez Mejía, and William H. Press, Reviewer
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Hunting Down the Universe: The Missing Mass, Primordial Black Holes, and Other Dark Matters

Michael Hawkins and Charles Alcock, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Semiconductor Technology

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAS Names Prize Recipients for 1998

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AAPT Presents Awards in New Orleans

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AGU Bestows Medals at Boston Meeting

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Anderson, Dziewonski Receive Crafoord Prize

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Academy of Sciences Adds to Its Ranks

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In Brief

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David Norman Schramm

Angela V. Olinto, James W. Truran, and Michael S. Turner
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Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber

Peter D. Bond and Chellis Chasman
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John Reginald Richardson

David J. Clark and Michael Craddock
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Norman Carroll Koon

James J. Rhyne
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Frederick Lobkowicz

Thomas Ferbel, Adrian Melissinos, Paul Slattery, and Edward Thorndike
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With Big Budget Increases Unlikely, OMB Head Scolds Scientists As Unhelpful

Irwin Goodwin
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Physicist Rush Holt, a Senator's Son, Seeks New Jersey Seat in Congress

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Dispatches

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Ins & Outs: NASA and DOE Each Lose Two, While Pentagon Gains Two

Irwin Goodwin
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Congress Chills Hopes for Polar Cap Observatory

Toni Feder
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Nuclear Waste Shipments Halted in Europe

Toni Feder
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Eastman Exits Argonne

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Sweden Recreates the Solar System

Jean Kumagai
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In Brief

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Lucent Technologies Honors Karl Jansky

Toni Feder
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