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November 2001

Volume 54, Issue 11

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Select this Article FREE		Physics in a New Era Thomas Appelquist and Donald Shapero

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Select this Article FREE		Sprites, Elves, and Glow Discharge Tubes Earle R. Williams

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Select this Article FREE		High‐T_c Bicrystal Grain Boundaries Jochen Mannhart and Praveen Chaudhari

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FROM THE EDITOR

Select this Article FREE		Our Community Stephen G. Benka

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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article FREE		Physics Update James R. Riordan, Stephen G. Benka, and Benjamin P. Stein

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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article FREE		Scaling Mount Planck II: Base Camp Frank Wilczek

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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Walking the Planck Length through History C. Alden Mead and Frank Wilczek

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Select this Article FREE		On Keeping Chinese Science Students Peter K. Dorhout

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Select this Article FREE		Computer Overkill? Colin H. Barrow and Paul Roman

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Select this Article FREE		Nature Has the Answers Charles W. McCutchen

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Select this Article FREE		Galileo's Sentence Restated Matthew Housley

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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article FREE		Understanding Why Sound Waves Travel Faster along Earth's Axis in the Inner Core Barbara Goss Levi

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Select this Article FREE		X‐Ray Observations of Young Stars Address a Puzzle of the Solar System's Origin Bertram Schwarzschild

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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		As Decision Time Approaches for Radioactive Waste Repository, a Mountain of Issues Still Unresolved Jim Dawson

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Select this Article FREE		AIP Urges Documenting Big Physics for Posterity Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		US Panel Nixes Astronomy Move Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		Nsf Centers Stimulate Research at Physics Frontiers Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		Secondary, Undergraduate Physics in Crisis in UK Toni Feder

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Select this Article FREE		Science Teacher Initiative Launched Jim Dawson

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Select this Article FREE		News Notes

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Select this Article FREE		Web Watch Charles Day

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BOOKS

Select this Article FREE		Memoirs: A Twentieth‐Century Journey in Science and Politics Edward Teller and Hans A. Bethe, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		The Historical Development of Quantum Theory. Volume 6: The Completion of Quantum Mechanics, 1926–1941 Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, and Silvan S. Schweber, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity Edwin F. Taylor, John Archibald Wheeler, and Omer Blaes, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun Leon Golub, Jay M. Pasachoff, and Ramon E. Lopez, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Michael A. Nielsen, Isaac L. Chuang, and Daniel F. V. James, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		Managing Science: Management for R&D Laboratories Claude Gelès, Gilles Lindecker, Mel Month, Christian Roche, and Thomas N. Theis, Reviewer

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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Lasers and Optics Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article FREE		New International Medal Honors Munk See Also: Erratum

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Select this Article FREE		Cosmology Prize Goes to Rees

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Select this Article FREE		Lorius Wins Balzan Prize

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Select this Article FREE		Weinhous Is AAPM's President‐Elect

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Select this Article FREE		In Brief

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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Fred Hoyle Martin Rees

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Select this Article FREE		Persa Raymond ‘P. R.’ Bell Alvin M. Weinberg

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Select this Article FREE		John Wyrill ‘Jack’ Christian Glyn Taylor and D. Keith Bowen

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Select this Article FREE		Lochlainn O’Raifeartaigh John T. Lewis, William McGlinn, and Siddhartha Sen

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Select this Article FREE		Reuven Ramaty Thomas L. Cline, Neil Gehrels, and Richard E. Lingenfelter

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