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February 1999

Volume 52, Issue 2

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Trapped Plasmas with a Single Sign of Charge

Thomas M. O’Neil
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Plasma crystal is not a fanciful oxymoron, but something you can actually make with an easy‐to‐confine, long‐lived nonneutral plasma.

Block Copolymers—Designer Soft Materials

Frank S. Bates and Glenn H. Fredrickson
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Advances in synthetic chemistry and statistical theory provide unparalleled control over molecular scale morphology in this class of macromolecules.

New Views of Neutron Stars

Lars Bildsten and Tod Strohmayer
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Satellites launched in the last ten years have proved to be powerful new tools for studying these compact stellar remnants. With them, astronomers have found remarkable new phenomena and solved several old mysteries.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Stephen G. Benka
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Observant Readers Take the Measure of Novel Approaches to Quantum Theory; Some Get Bohmed

Murray Gell‐Mann, James Hahtle, Robert B. Griffiths, Anton Zeilinger, Robert T. Nachtrieb, James L. Anderson, Allen C. Dotson, William G. Hoover, Henry M. Bradford, and Sheldon Goldstein
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Journal's History and Peer Review Process Were Misrepresented

Carlton F. Hazlewood and Gilbert N. Ling
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Correction

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Experiments and Simulations Track Crack Propagation in Silicon Wafers

Charles Day
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By careful design, researchers have devised a method by which observations and simulations of brittle fracture can be directly compared.

Two Experiments Observe Explicit Violation of Time‐Reversal Symmetry

Bertram Schwarzschild
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For 35 years we've believed that some elementary processes can't quite run backward. Now, at last, we have direct evidence.

Nobelium‐254 Forms High‐Spin Rotational States

Gloria B. Lubkin
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An experiment at the limit of feasibility finds that instead of decaying by fission or emission of alphas, an excited nucleus of element 102 stays together and rotates in an elongated shape.
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Insisting on the Impossible: The Life of Edwin Land

Victor K. McElheny and Richard L. Garwin, Reviewer
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Ecological Numeracy: Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Issues

Robert A. Herendeen and Thomas E. Graedel, Reviewer
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Explorations in Quantum Computing

Colin P. Williams and Charles Bennett, Reviewer
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Introduction to Ionomers

Adi Eisenberg, Joon‐Seop Kim, and Mark Ratner, Reviewer
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The Invisible Sky: ROSAT and the Age of X‐Ray Astronomy

Bernd Aschenbach, Hermann‐Michael Hahn, Joachim Trümper, and Elihu Boldt, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Data Acquisition

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Clinton Names 1998 National Medal of Science Winners

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APS to Honor Many at Its Centennial Meeting

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AGU Presents Medals and Awards at Fall Meeting

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In Brief

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Seth Putterman and Steven Garrett
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Edgar Knobloch, Henry Abarbanel, and Frank Tabakin
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Washington Ins & Outs: New Leaders at RPI and AUI; Changes at NASA and NSF

Irwin Goodwin
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Washington Briefings

Irwin Goodwin
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Europe Wants a 100‐Tesla Magnet of Its Own

Toni Feder
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Dutch Magnet Lab to Get DC Upgrade, Pulsed Magnets

Toni Feder
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Dorfan Will Lead SLAC into Next Century

Toni Feder
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Isolation Hampers Physics Teaching at Two‐Year Colleges

Jean Kumagai
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New Physics Fellowship Honors Free Speech Activist Mario Savio

Jean Kumagai
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Chidester is Vice President of ACA

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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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