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August 2000

Volume 53, Issue 8

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QCD Made Simple

Frank Wilczek
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Quantum chromodynamics is conceptually simple. Its realization in nature, however, is usually very complex. But not always.
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Diffusion Waves and their Uses

Andreas Mandelis
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Diffusion waves lack wave fronts, can't be beamed, and don't travel very far, yet they form the basis of several new and revolutionary measurement technologies.
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Physicists in the New Era of Electronic Publishing

James Langer
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New electronic opportunities for scientific communication, and changes in how scientists use journals, are prompting a complete reevaluation of the roles of scientific journals and of scholarly societies like the APS.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe and Benjamin P. Stein
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Create Life From Scratch? It's a Matter of Time

Robert T. Nachtrieb and Howard C. Berg
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Feynman Brainwashed?

Nathan Isgur
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The Matter of WIMPs

Herzel Laor and Barbara Goss Levi
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The Universe in a Glass of Beer

Maurice T. Raiford


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Elegance: Keeping it Simple and Testable

Peter Drummond and N. David Mermin
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Proper Credit Given for Early Cancer Work

Irving Itzkan
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The Neutrino Road Not Taken

Luciano N. Blanco and Allan Franklin
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Trouble for Quantized Hubble

George L. Murphy
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Moon Yields Info on Near‐Earth Asteroids

David Morrison
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Archimedes Floats

Joseph A. Keane
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Researchers Can Now Vary the Atomic Interactions in a Bose–Einstein Condensate

Barbara Goss Levi
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Like a couple in a love‐hate relationship, atoms in a condensate can shift from attracting to repelling one another—just by the turn of an experimental knob.
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An Optical Spoon Stirs Up Vortices in a Bose–Einstein Condensate

Richard Fitzgerald
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Multiple vortices form regular arrangements in a condensate in a rotating trap.
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Galaxy Survey Finds Limit of Cosmic Structure Size

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell‐Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth‐Century Physics

George Johnson and Silvan S. Schweber, Reviewer
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Thermal Physics

Ralph Baierlein and Harvey Gould, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Thermal Physics

Daniel V. Schroeder and Harvey Gould, Reviewer
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ITEP Lectures on Particle Physics and Field Theory, Vols. 1 and 2

M. A. Shifman and Frank Wilczek, Reviewer


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Introduction to Stellar Winds

Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers, Joseph P. Cassinelli, and C. T. Bolton, Reviewer


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Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today

Paul R. Josephson, W. H. Freeman, and Robert W. Seidel, Reviewer
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CP Violation

Gustavo Castelo Branco, Luís Lavoura, João Paulo Silva, I. I. Bigi, A. I. Sanda, and Adam Falk, Reviewer


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New Books

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Focus on Lasers

Lawrence G. Rubin
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This Year's MacArthur Fellows Chosen

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AAS Presents Awards in New York

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In Brief

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Sam Bard Treiman

Stephen L. Adler
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Ivan Kuščer

Noel Corngold and Norman McCormick
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Donald Anderson Edwards

Sekazi K. Mtingwa
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Richard Alexander Beth

Per F. Dahl
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Physics Graduate Programs Train Students for Industrial Careers

Toni Feder
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In Brief

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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