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January 2000

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Select this Article FREE		Motile Behavior of Bacteria Howard C. Berg

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Select this Article FREE		Retinal Imaging and Vision at the Frontiers of Adaptive Optics Donald T. Miller

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Select this Article FREE		Physics and the Information Revolution Joel Birnbaum and R. Stanley Williams

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FROM THE EDITOR

Select this Article FREE		From the Editor Stephen G. Benka

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PHYSICS UPDATE

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

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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article FREE		Mass without Mass II: The Medium is the Mass‐age Frank Wilczek

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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		More on ‘Why Do They Leave Physics?’: Money Matters, Research and Job Opportunities Jonathan R. Friedman, Andrew Resnick, Rostislav A. Serota, Ernest Bauer, and Philip W. Anderson

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Select this Article FREE		Fubini and Salam Inspired Plans for Mideast Synchrotron Roman Jackiw and Sameen Ahmed Khan

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Select this Article FREE		Correction

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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article FREE		Mapping the Interstellar Cloud We Live in Bertram Schwarzschild

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Select this Article FREE		The Decreasing Arctic Ice Cover Barbara Goss Levi See Also: Erratum \| Erratum

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	+ -	Show Topic New studies indicate that the Arctic Ocean's ice cover is about 40% thinner than it was 20 to 40 years ago, and the area of its perennial ice could be shrinking at a rate of about 7% per decade.

Select this Article FREE		What Really Gives a Quantum Computer Its Power? Richard Fitzgerald

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	+ -	Show Topic A closer look at quantum computation experiments in liquid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance raises questions about what's really going on.

Select this Article FREE		Experts Dismiss Doomsday Scenarios for RHIC Barbara Goss Levi

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	+ -	Show Topic A panel o f particle physicists has examined concerns that high‐energy collisions of gold nuclei might trigger the formation of black holes, vacuum instabilities, or voracious strangelets.

BOOKS

Select this Article FREE		Making Physics: A Biography of Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1946–1972 Robert P. Crease and Robert W. Seidel, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Active Galactic Nuclei: From the Central Black Hole to the Galactic Environment Julian H. Krolik and Ruth A. Daly, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Properties of Materials Mary Anne White and Thomas F. Rosenbaum, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Accelerator Physics S. Y. Lee and Don Hartill, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		X‐Ray Scattering from Soft‐Matter Thin Films: Materials Science and Basic Research Metin Tolan and Michael D. Ward, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Data Acquisition Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article FREE		In Brief

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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Edwin Thompson Jaynes John W. Clark, Richard E. Norberg, and G. Larry Bretthorst

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Select this Article FREE		Gregory Eugene Stillman Nick Holonyak, Jr.

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WASHINGTON REPORTS

Select this Article FREE		DOE Shuts Brookhaven Lab's HFBR in a Triumph of Politics Over Science Irwin Goodwin

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Select this Article FREE		Washington Ins & Outs Irwin Goodwin

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Select this Article FREE		Washington Briefings Irwin Goodwin,

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PHYSICS COMMUNITY

Select this Article FREE		Stakes Rise in Row over Siting UK Synchrotron Light Source, as Fury Persists over Canceled French Facility Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		UMinn Faculty Teach Each Other Science Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		Chiaverina and Hubisz Join AAPT Presidential Line

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Select this Article FREE		Sartwell Is AVS President‐Elect for 2000

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Select this Article FREE		In Brief

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Select this Article FREE		Web Watch Charles Day

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