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September 1998

Volume 51, Issue 9

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Select this Article		Rubbing and Scrubbing Georg Hähner and Nicholas Spencer


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Select this Article		The Sokal Hoax: At Whom Are We Laughing? Mara Beller


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Select this Article FREE		Everyone's Magnetism Andrey Geim


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PHYSICS UPDATE

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


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LETTERS

Select this Article		LHC Evidence for More Dimensions Accelerates Futuristic Discussion Bruce Winstein and Gordon L. Kane


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Select this Article		Seventy‐Plus Years in Physics: Bethe Finds His Match—in Family Reuben Rudman


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Select this Article		Physics Update: ‘Fractional’ Flux Quanta May Be Random Keshav N. Shrivastava


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Select this Article		Lawsuit Update: More on APS∕AIP's Dispute with Gordon & Breach Martin B. Gordon and Harry Lustig


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Select this Article		Correction


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Small‐World Networks Can Provide a New Tool to Study Diverse Systems Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Search at SLAC Finds No Millicharged Particles Bertram Schwarzschild


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OPINION

Select this Article		The Question of Pure‐Fusion Explosions Under the CTBT Suzanne Jones, Ray Kidder, and Frank von Hippel


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		From Flat Panel Displays to Biosensors: AVS to Meet in Baltimore


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Comets, Popular Culture and the Birth of Modern Cosmology Sara Schechner Genuth and Michael J. Crowe, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy Joseph Albright, Marcia Kunstel, and Lawrence Badash, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Einstein Tower: An Intertexture of Dynamic Construction, Relativity Theory and Astronomy Klaus Hentschel and Jüregn Renn, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Rock Magnetism: Fundamentals and Frontiers David Dunlop, Özden Özdemir, and Michael D. Fuller, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century Michio Kaku and Joseph A. Paradiso, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Group Theory in Physics: An Introduction J. F. Cornwell and Warren W. Buck, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Introduction to Scientific Programming: Computational Problem Solving Using Mathematica and Introduction to Partial Differential Equations with MATLAB Joseph L. Zacharv, Jeffery Copper Birkhäuser, and Mauro Pierucci, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Solar Corona Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff, and Eugene N. Parker, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Nucleosynthesis and Chemical Evolution of Galaxies Bernard E. Pagel and David Arnett, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Cryogenics Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAPM Presents Annual Awards at Texas Meeting


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Verner Schomaker Jack D. Dunitz


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Select this Article FREE		Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood David Eisenberg, Jenny Glusker, and Robert Sparks


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Select this Article FREE		Norman Paulson Heydenburg Louis Brown, Steve Edwards, John Fox, and Kirby Kemper


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Select this Article FREE		Jens Lindhard Jens Ulrik Andersen and Peter Sigmund


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Select this Article FREE		Rutherford Hamlet Adkins Ronald E. Mickens


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Experts Dispute CIA Assessment of Missile Threat and Raise Demands in Congress For Defense System Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Computer and Communications Panel Urges Doubling Funds for Long‐Range Research and More Teaching Faculty Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Senate Confirms Heads of DOE, OSTP and OMB After Holding Nominations Hostage Over Ducks Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Briefings Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Physicists Question US Sanctions on Scientific Collaborations with India and Pakistan Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		British Science Gets Big Budget Boost Toni Feder


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Select this Article		UK Science Policy Posts are Reshuffled Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physics Societies Offer Free Undergrad Memberships Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physics Olympiad Held in the Land of Fire and Ice Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physics and the Art of the Motorcycle Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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Select this Article		Physics Today Celebrates Its 50th


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