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Select this Article		Science Funding in the Former Soviet Union Needs the Bottom‐Up Approach Maurice Jacob


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Select this Article		Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity: Evidence for a New Class of Materials Robert A. Guyer and Paul A. Johnson


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Select this Article		A Different Approach to Cosmology Geoffrey Burbidge, Fred Hoyle, and Jayant V. Narlikar


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Select this Article		Reply to “A Different Approach to Cosmology” Andreas Albrecht


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		The Yin and Yang of Hydrogen Daniel Kleppner


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LETTERS

Select this Article		Let's Get Fiscal: More Noteworthy Physicists Alv Egeland, Lars Falk, Božidar Kanajet, and Lloyd Kannenberg


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Select this Article		Re High‐Energy Rays, Local Supercluster is a Major Source Spot Halton Arp


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Select this Article		Teachers Groups, APS Debate New California Science Standards Bill Layton, Nuria Rodriguez, Walter Gekelman, Steve Cooperman, James S. Langer, Andrew Sessler, and Ramon Lopez


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Select this Article		Author, Reviewer Debate Freundlich's Role in Relativity Klaus Hentschel and Jürgen Renn


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Select this Article		Third Physicist was Lost in Crash of Swissair Flight 111 Laszlo Forro and Giorgio Margaritondo


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		New Atom Lasers Eject Atoms or Run CW Gloria B. Lubkin


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Select this Article		Plutonium May Be Hitching a Ride on Colloids Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Low‐Energy Electron Beams Modify Semiconductor Surfaces Charles Day


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Select this Article		Is the Island of Stability in Sight? Barbara Goss Levi


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BOOKS

Select this Article		My Brain is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdös and the Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth Bruce Schechter, Paul Hoffman, and Peter D. Lax, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont, and N. David Mermin, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Peace and War: Reminiscences of a Life on the Frontiers of Science Robert Serber and Sidney Drell, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Comets: Creators and Destroyers David H. Levy and Carey M. Lisse, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Basic Calculus: From Archimedes to Newton to its Role in Science Alexander J. Hahn and David Halliday, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Looking for Earths: The Race to Find New Solar Systems Alan Boss and Stephen P. Maran, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Scientific Instruments 1500–1900: An Introduction Gerard L'E Turner and Deborah Jean Warner, Reviewer


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Select this Article		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Sensors Lawrence g. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Fermi Award Given for Work in Nuclear Energy


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Select this Article		McDonnell Foundation Awards $1 Million Fellowships


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Select this Article		Clinton Honors Outstanding Young US Scientists


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Select this Article		Engineering Academy Announces New Members


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Select this Article		IOP Presents 1999 Awards, Names Honorary Fellows


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Alexey Andreevich Anselm Alexander Polyakov


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Select this Article FREE		David John Tritton Harry L. Swinney and Peter A. Davies


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Select this Article FREE		Mark Joseph Comella K. Thomas R. Davies


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IN PROFILE

Select this Article		Arms Control Experts Blend Idealism and Technical Know‐How Jean Kumagai


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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article		DOE's Richardson Rescinds his Budget Decree to Shut Down MIT's Bates Lab in Fiscal 2000 Irwin Goodwin


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Select this Article		With the Snarling Over on Impeachment, Congress Focuses on Fiscal 2000 R&D Budget Irwin Goodwin


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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article		As OSTP Readies Conduct Guidelines, Physicists Begin to Think More About Research Ethics Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Anger Grows Over Sale of Rare Books Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Witherell is Tapped to Head Fermilab Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Harris is ASA's President‐Elect


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Select this Article		ITP Holds Forum on Black Holes for High School Teachers Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Sargent Will Lead AAS in 2000


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Select this Article		In Brief


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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