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October 2001

Volume 54, Issue 10

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Physics and Archaeology

Ervan G. Garrison
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Physics‐based techniques are yielding more accurate dates for our prehistoric ancestors, profoundly affecting our understanding of the past.
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The Little Machines That are Making it Big

David Bishop, C. Randy Giles, and Peter Gammel
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Microelectromechanical systems are currently used in a variety of applications, including triggering airbags and measuring the Casimir force. In the future, they may revolutionize the way we think about machines.
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The Manipulation of Single Biomolecules

Terence Strick, Jean‐François Allemand, Vincent Croquette, and David Bensimon
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By monitoring the response of individual protein and DNA molecules to pulling and twisting, biophysicists can learn much about their structure and their interactions.
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Physics Update

James R. Riordan and Benjamin P. Stein,
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Educating Students to Appreciate Physics

Stewart E. Brekke
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When Did the Science Wars Start?

Theo Theocharis and Mihalis Psimopoulos
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A Proposal for Rescaling Units

Solomon W. Golomb
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Strings 2000's Top 10 Bemuse Belfast

Michael Duff and N. David Mermin
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Goldhaber Provided Szilard's Isotopes

William Lanouette
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Spacecraft Probes the Site of Magnetic Reconnection in Earth's Magnetotail

Charles Day
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For the first time—and quite byy chance—a spacecraft has directly encountered one of the most important energy conversion mechanisms in the solar system.
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Spectra of the Most Distant Quasars Elucidate the Reionization of the Cosmos

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Half a million years after the Big Bang, almost all the hydrogen in the cosmos was neutral. When and how did it all get reionized?
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Buckyball Crystals Made to Superconduct at 117 K

Barbara Goss Levi
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By slipping molecules between C60 spheres in a crystal, researchers have raised the critical temperature as high as those of many copper‐oxide superconductors.
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These Stars Have Eyes

Richard Fitzgerald
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Legislation to Revive OTA Focuses on Science Advice to Congress

Jim Dawson
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In an era of tight budgets and shrinking programs, it will be difficult to reestablish the Office of Technology Assessment, once a small, highly regarded office that provided science advice to Congress.
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Brookhaven Celebrates Maurice Goldhaber's 90 Years

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Bell Labs Research Regroups as Parent Lucent Shrinks

Toni Feder
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With Lucent Technologies in meltdown, many researchers mournfully predict the demise of Bell Labs. Lab leaders, however, maintain they will stay at the forefront of research.
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Cost Cuts Kill Climate Satellite

Paul Guinnessy
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Physicist Arrested in Iran

Toni Feder
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Superstring Theory Is a Theatrical Hit

Paul Guinnessy
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Professor Surveys Physics Faculty Makeup

Toni Feder
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News Notes

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Web Watch

Charles Day
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After‐Dinner Physics

Michael F. Shlesinger
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Physics, the Human Adventure: From Copernicus to Einstein and Beyond

Gerald Holton, Stephen G. Brush, and James Evans, Reviewer
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The Origin and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae

Sun Kwok and Harriet L. Dinerstein, Reviewer
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Solid State Physics and Solid State Physics

Mircea S. Rogalski, Stuart B. Palmer, and Bruce R. Patton, Reviewer
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The Dating Game: One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth

Cherry Lewis and Paul R. Renne, Reviewer
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Small Scale Processes in Geophysical Fluid Flows

Lakshmi H. Kantha, Carol Anne Clayson, and Jim Moum, Reviewer
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Splitting the Second: The Story of Atomic Time

Tony Jones and Dennis D. McCarthy, Reviewer
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Silicon Surfaces and Formation of Interfaces: Basic Science in the Industrial World

Jarek Dabrowski, Hans‐Joachim Müssig, and Yves J. Chabal, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Semiconductor Technology

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Medwin Tops List of ASA Awardees

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AAPT Honors Four at New York Meeting

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Princeton Physicist Garners Dirac Medal

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Three Share Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology

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In Brief

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Clifford Glenwood Shull

Ralph M. Moon and Robert J. Birgeneau
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Louis Néel

Jacques Friedel
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Herman Feshbach

Earle Lomon, Kurt Gottfried, and Allan Bromley
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Hsu‐Yun Fan

Anant K. Ramdas and Sergio Rodriguez
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Werner Lindinger

Tilmann Märk, Eldon Ferguson, and Paul Crutzen
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Wilfrid Basil Mann

Bert M. Coursey and William L. McLaughlin
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Andrew Ching Tam

Hans J. Coufal, Kumar Patel, William Happer, and Chi‐Kwan Au
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