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November 2000

Volume 53, Issue 11

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From Quantum Cheating to Quantum Security

Daniel Gottesman and Hoi‐Kwong Lo
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For thousands of years, code‐makers and code‐breakers have been competing for supremacy. Their arsenals may soon include a powerful new weapon: quantum mechanics.
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Technologies to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the Next Decade

Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Tina M. Kaarsberg, and Joseph Romm


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The prospects for meeting the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse‐gas reductions will be brighter if the US can develop technologies to lower its energy use.
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Diffusion‐Limited Aggregation: A Model for Pattern Formation

Thomas C. Halsey
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Recent insights from this well‐studied model have led to many new applications—from river networks to oil recovery, and from electrodeposition to string theory.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Stephen G. Benka
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of…

Leo P. Kadanoff
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Teaching, Propaganda, and the Middle Ground

W. C. Morrey, Hoi‐Kwong Lo, Pantazis Mouroulis, Charles K. Scharnberger, Gary Powell, Philip E. Kaldon, Phil Baringer, Moorad Alexanian, and Mano Singham
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Background Highlights in X‐Ray Imaging

Stephen Wilkins
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Quark ‘Color’ Clarified

Laurie M. Brown
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Learning to Control Quantum Systems

Henry C. Kapteyn and Margaret M. Murnane
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Correction

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New Measurements of Hydroxyl in the Middle Atmosphere Confound Chemical Models

Charles Day
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Nicknamed the atmospheric garbage disposal, the hydroxyl molecule is one of the most potent oxidizers throughout the atmosphere. Among its habitual targets is ozone.
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Chandra X‐Ray Observatory Examines a New Kind of Black Hole

Bertram Schwarzschild
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A surprising new class of middleweight black holes, perhaps 10 000 times more massive than the Sun, may have much to teach us about how galaxies form.
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Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy

Per F. Dahl and David C. Cassidy, Reviewer
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Dynamic Earth: Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection

Geoffrey F. Davies and Norman H. Sleep, Reviewer
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Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness

Duncan J. Watts and Per Bak, Reviewer
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Principles of Seismology and Introdcution to Seismology

Agustín Udías, Peter M. Shearer, and Toshiro Tanimoto, Reviewer
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Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean

Gary E. Thomas, Knut Stamnes, Lazaros Oreopoulos, Reviewer, and Steven Platnick, Reviewer
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The Diamond Makers

Robert M. Hazen and Francis P. Bundy, Reviewer
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Nonclassical Physics: Beyond Newton's View

Randy Harris and Charles H. Holbrow, Reviewer
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Focus on Spectroscopy

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Contributions to Medical Physics Honored

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AAPT Prize Winners Announced

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In Brief

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Norman Austern

Bernard L. Cohen and C. Martin Vincent
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Simon Larach

P. N. Yocom
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Nimai Chad Mukhopadhyay

Malcolm H. MacFarlane, Daniel Sperber, and Paul Stoler
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Karl Strauch

George Brandenburg, Margaret Law, Norman Ramsey, Isaac Silvera, and Richard Wilson
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Peter Swerling

Harold P. Smith, Jr. and Gene Goldstein
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George Michael Volkoff

Erich Vogt
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Nations Argue over Climate Treaty

Paul Guinnessy
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US State Department Gets a Science Adviser

Jim Dawson
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Pluto Mission Falls Victim to Climbing Costs

Toni Feder
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Study Calls for Better Conditions for Postdocs

Toni Feder
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Saying “No” to Top Government Jobs

Jim Dawson
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Soleil Rises: French Synchrotron Gets Go‐Ahead

Toni Feder
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Grunder Picks Up Argonne Reins

Toni Feder
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Physics Grid Grapples with Growing Datasets

Lynley Hargreaves
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Pittsburgh Auctions Off Vintage Supercomputer

Toni Feder
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Sarachik Is Elected APS Vice President

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Dickinson Will Lead AGU in 2002

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Hartmann Is ASA President‐Elect

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Who's Hiring Physics Bachelors?

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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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