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Select this Article		Special Issue: Everyday Physics Stephen G. Benka and Charles Day


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Select this Article		How We Localize Sound William M. Hartmann


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Select this Article		The Virtual Cook: Modeling Heat Transfer in the Kitchen Harold McGee, Jack McInerney, and Alain Harrus


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Select this Article		Composite Materials—Reflections on the First Half Century Tony Kelly and Bill Clyne


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Select this Article		Television Goes Digital Louis A. Bloomfield


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	+ -	Show Topic The new technology is bringing images of unprecedented clarity into our homes by exploiting the existing bandwidth and pushing signal‐to‐noise ratios almost to their theoretical limits.

Select this Article		On Stickiness Cyprien Gay and Ludwik Leibler


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PHYSICS UPDATE

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


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Mass Without Mass I: Most of Matter Frank Wilczek


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Ex‐Los Alamos Scientist Reveals True Wartime Role as ‘Scientist X’ Philip Morrison


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Select this Article		Mrozowski Recalled as Carbon Pioneer, Skater, Party Giver Ed C. Thomas


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Select this Article		Differences Explained in Correlated‐Photon Metrology Techniques Alan Migdall


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Select this Article		University Job Ads Call for Researchers More Than Teachers Jay J. Pulli


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Select this Article		Cavities of Photonic Lasers Resonate with Purcell's Dictum Jordan Maclay


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Select this Article		Lubrication Article Prompts Suggestion and Suggestive Query Lawrence Slifkin and Marilyn Vogel


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Select this Article		SNO Small Matter, But Super K Too Can Pick out Neutrino Flavors John Michael Williams


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Select this Article		Misused Measure Units Can Cause Radon Scare and Spacecraft Loss Piotr T. Wasiolek


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Select this Article		Corrections


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Researchers Put a New Spin on Bose–Einstein Condensates Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Gravitational Self‐Energy and the Equivalence Principle Bertram Schwarzchild


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Select this Article		Atom Interferometer Measures G with Same Accuracy as Optical Devices Barbara Goss Levi


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms Carlo Cercignani and David Ruelle, Reviewer


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Select this Article		From Hiroshima to the Iceman: The Development and Applications of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Harry E. Gove and D. Allan Bromley, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Quantum Field Theory: From Operators to Path Integrals Kerson Huang and Michael E. Peskin, Reviewer


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Select this Article		An Introduction to Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics: Oscillations, Waves, Patterns, and Chaos Irving R. Epstein, John A. Pojman, and Gregoire Nicolis, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Acoustics: Basic Physics, Theory, and Methods Paul Filippi, Dominique Habault, Jean‐Pierre Lefebvre, Aimé Bergassoli, and Victor W. Sparrow, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Materials Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Sor's Bingham Medal Goes to Russel


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Select this Article		Aas Divisions Honor Eight Scientists


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Myron Lindsay Good Paul D. Grannis, Janos Kirz, Michael D. Marx, and Robert L. McCarthy


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Select this Article FREE		Melissa Charalambous Jacques Chaussy


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		Senate Rejects Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Evoking Defeat of Versailles Treaty 80 Years Ago Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Krebs Steps Down As Science Chief of DOE, Breaking Longevity Record Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Brown Eulogized as ‘Mr. Science,’ Even as Widow Loses Bid for Seat Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Ins and Outs: Meserve Joins NRC; New Faces at State Department and NSF Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		Washington Briefings Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		Scientists View Kansas Board's Decision As a Wake‐Up Call Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		South Africa Is Set to Build Large Telescope Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Johnson is OSA Vice President for 2000


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Select this Article		Fuller Becomes President of Sor


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Select this Article		Women in Science, in Words and Pictures Jean Kumagai


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Select this Article		Merger of OSA and SPIE is Rejected


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Select this Article		In Brief


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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