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December 2001

Volume 54, Issue 12

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Acoustic Surgery

Gail ter Haar
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Bursts of focused ultrasound energy three orders of magnitude more intense than diagnostic ultrasound are emerging as a noninvasive option for treating cancer and other medical procedures.
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Edward Condon and the Cold War Politics of Loyalty

Jessica Wang
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Early in the cold war, a noted scientist was relentlessly hounded by red‐baiting congressmen. The lessons of the case remain no less relevant today.
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The Promise and Challenge of Solid‐State Lighting

Arpad Bergh, George Craford, Anil Duggal, and Roland Haitz
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In time, solid‐state devices should provide inexpensive, environmentally friendly illumination that changes the way we think about using artificial light.
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Physics Update

James R. Riordan and Philip F. Schewe
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Two Theorists Never in Doubt

Michael S. Turner
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US Terrorist Vulnerability Exposed Years Ago

Tyler Estler
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Defense Work Is Physicists' Tradition

John W. Cooper and Lawrence Cranberg
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Greenhouse Gases Warm Things Up

Robert C. Whitten and Barbara Goss Levi
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Folding The Sciences Was Tough but Correct Decision

D. Allan Bromley
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Principia Is Proud of Solar Car Success

Benjamin Brown
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On Religion and Science and Money's Power to Corrupt

Greg Severn and Mark Friesel
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Credit Clarified for Biomolecules Work

Terence R. Strick, Jean‐François Allemand, Vincent Croquette, and David Bensimon
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Correction

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Cornell, Ketterle, and Wieman Share Nobel Prize for Bose–Einstein Condensates

Barbara G. Levi
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Macroscopic quantum states of atomic gases, created in 1995, have more than lived up to initial expectations, with journals still bulging with reports of their fascinating behavior.
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Isotopic Analysis of Pristine Microshells Resolves a Troubling Paradox of Paleoclimatology

Bertram Schwarzschild
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If fossil isotopic data tell us that the tropical ocean was much cooler 50 million years ago than it is now, then either the data are flawed or we understand very little about global warming.
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Can Polymeric Carbon‐60 Be Magnetic?

Barbara Goss Levi
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If a recent experiment is confirmed, theorists will be challenged to explain the evidence for weak ferromagnetism in a compound made solely of carbon.
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Security at US Nuclear Power Plants Boosted after Terrorist Attacks

Paul Guinnessy
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With the ongoing threat of terrorist attacks, nuclear regulators ponder how to protect the public from a radiation disaster.
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IAEA Calls for Tighter Security Worldwide

Paul Guinnessy
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CERN Grapples with LHC Cost Hike

Toni Feder
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Cutbacks, loans, project slowdown, and new money could all contribute to paying the extra costs of the Large Hadron Collider and to restoring CERN's reputation.
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Goldin Era Ends at NASA, Canada Picks New Space Chief

Paul Guinnessy
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New Directors for NIST, NOAA

Jim Dawson
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Math Solution to Nobel Problem

Toni Feder
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Physics Societies Seek to Aid Fight against Terrorism

Toni Feder
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Terrorism Sets Agenda for New Congressional Fellows

Jim Dawson
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AIP Forum Focuses on Color Digital Documents

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News Notes

Bertram Schwarzschild, Toni Feder, and Jim Dawson
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time, and the Beauty That Causes Havoc

Arthur I. Miller and Stephen G. Brush, Reviewer
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Adventures in the Atomic Age: From Watts to Washington

Glenn T. Seaborg, Eric Seaborg, and Alvin M. Weinberg, Reviewer
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Molecular Electronic‐Structure Theory

Trygve Helgaker, Poul Jørgensen, Jeppe Olsen,, and Mark A. Ratner, Reviewer
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100 Years of Planck's Quantum

Ian Duck , E. C. G. Sudarshan, and Dan Greenberger, Reviewer
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Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Paul Murdin and Stephen P. Maran, Reviewer
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East Asian Archaeoastronomy: Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea

Zhentao Xu, David W. Pankenier, Yaotiao Jiang,, and John Steele, Reviewer
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Atom, Molecule, and Cluster Beams

Hans Pauly and James M. Lisy, Reviewer
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For Better or for Worse: The Marriage of Science and Government in the United States

Alfred K. Mann and Anita K. Jones, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Cryogenics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AIP Names Writing Award Winners

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AAS Division Awards Announced

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Physicists Honored by APS

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Researchers Receive ‘Dutch Nobel Prize’

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First Leverhulme Prizes Awarded

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Quinn Is Elected Vice President of APS

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In Brief

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Vitalii Iosifovich Goldanskii

Mikhail V. Alfimov and Aleksandr V. Shishkov
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William Edward Caswell

Curtis G. Callan, Jr. and Frank Wilczek
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John Edward ‘Jack’ Estes

Jeff Dozier and Ghassem Asrar
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Leslie Lawrance Foldy

Robert W. Brown, Lawrence M. Krauss, and Philip L. Taylor
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Howard Thomas Powell

E. Michael Campbell, Stephen A. Payne, and J. Gary Eden
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