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September 2001

Volume 54, Issue 9

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The Constant yet Ever‐Changing Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics

Juan G. Roederer
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In this age of globalization, the ICTP continues to stem the brain drain of physicists from developing nations while at the same time responding to new scientific challenges.
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Communication in a Disordered World

Steven H. Simon, Aris L. Moustakas, Marin Stoytchev, and Hugo Safar
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Rather than decreasing efficiency, scattering can actually increase the information transfer rate for cell phones and other wireless microwave communication devices. Mesoscopic physics helps explain how.
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Two Revolutions in K‐8 Science Education

Ramon E. Lopez and Ted Schultz
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Today's science education, which teaches all students to do science and think like scientists, has depended on the involvement of scientists and their societies. It must continue to do so.
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Physics Update

James R. Riordan and Benjamin P. Stein
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Revolution in Science Education: Put Physics First!

Leon Lederman
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Job Search Techniques Apply to Academia, Other Fields

Elroy O. LaCasce and David Bazell
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Defending One's Country Is Moral, Too

Robert K. Adair
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Which Came First, Theory or Experiment?

Norman F. Ramsey
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No‐Shows Spoil Meeting Sessions

Mark P. Silverman
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Correction

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Second Material Found that Superconducts in a Ferromagnetic State

Charles Day
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At first glance, ferromagnetism and superconductivity look incompatible, but that hasn't tured out to be the case.
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Magnetically Confined Fusion Breaks a Pressure Barrier

Barbara Goss Levi
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If plasmas can be held at higher pressures, the potential fusion power output is significantly greater.
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B‐Decay Experiments Show Clear Violation of CP Symmetry

Bertram Schwarzschild
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Element 118 Bows Out

Barbara Goss Levi
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Convocation at Snowmass Looks into the Future of US High‐Energy Physics

Bertram Schwarzschild
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A 500‐GeV electron‐positron linear collider, most particle physicists believe, should be the next big accelerator.
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Russia Banks on Importing Nuclear Waste

Paul Guinnessy
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Domestic and international opposition may scuttle the survival strategy of Russia's nuclear industry.
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New NIH Institute Seeks to Serve Physicists and Engineers in Medicine

Toni Feder
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Now that medical imagers and bioengineers have succeeded in getting their own NIH institute, they have to fill its coffers and define its role both at NIH and in the wider scientific community.
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Ginsparg Takes Electronic Preprint Archive to Cornell

Toni Feder
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SAIP Leaders Aim to Integrate Physics into South African Society

Toni Feder
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Teen Physicists Compete in Turkey

Lynley Hargreaves
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Physicists' Pay Is Up

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News Notes

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Michigan Students Win Solar Road Race

Paul Guinnessy
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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AVS Hosts Meetings in San Francisco

Judy Barker
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Boltzmann's Atom: The Great Debate that Launched a Revolution in Physics

David Lindley and Clayton A. Gearhart, Reviewer
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Atom: An Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth… and Beyond

Lawrence M. Krauss and Alastair G. W. Cameron, Reviewer
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Solar and Stellar Magnetic Activity

Carolus J. Schrijver, Cornelis Zwaan, and Eric R. Priest, Reviewer
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Laser: The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty‐Year Patent War

Nick Taylor and Nicolaas Bloembergen, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Turbulent Flow

Jean Mathieu, Julian Scott, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Reviewer
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Handbook of Medical Imaging. Volumes 1–3

Jacob Beutel, Harold L. Kundel, Richard L. Van Metter, Milan Sonka, J. Michael Fitzpatrick, Yongmin Kim, Steven C. Horii, and H. K. Huang, Reviewer
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Shoemaker by Levy: The Man Who Made an Impact

David H. Levy and Susan W. Kieffer, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Astronomical Society Bestows Honors

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EPS Board Hands Out Prizes to Five

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In Brief

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Ugo Fano

R. Stephen Berry and Mitio Inokuti
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Minoru Oda

George Clark, Fumiaki Nagase, and John Linsley
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Harry Brumberger

Jerry Goodisman, Salvino Ciccariello, and Gernot Kostorz
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Arnold Boris Arons

Lillian C. McDermott, Kenneth G. Wilson, and E. Leonard Jossem
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