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October 2002

Volume 55, Issue 10

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Toward a Synthesis of the Newtonian and Darwinian Worldviews

John Harte
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Physicists seek simplicity in universal laws. Ecologists revel in complex interdependencies. A sustainable future for our planet will probably require a look at life from both sides.

Optical Studies of Single Quantum Dots

Daniel Gammon and Duncan G. Steel
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Like atoms, quantum dots can be probed and manipulated with light. Unlike atoms, they can be customized.
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Eugene Wigner, Nuclear Engineer

Alvin M. Weinberg
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Wigner led the design of the Hanford nuclear reactors and founded a school to teach reactor physics to people working in industry.
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Physics Update

Barbara Goss Levi, Philip F. Schewe, and Benjamin P. Stein
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The Intrinsic Value of Basic Research

Jesús Guillermo Contreras
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Energy Possibilities: Windows, Windmills, and Satellites

Claes G. Granqvist and Ken Dragoon
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowships: A Missed Opportunity

Daniel M. Boye, Shila Garg, and Gerald A. Goldin
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Looking at Both Sides of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation

Hartmut Schulz
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Inhibition in the Brain Plays a Key Role in Sound Localization

Richard Fitzgerald
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New experiments demonstrate that processing interaural timing differences entails more than just delay lines.

Do Atomic Force Microscope Arrays Have the Write Stuff?

Barbara Goss Levi
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IBM researchers have developed an array of 1024 cantilevers, called Millipede, as a high‐density alternative to magnetic recording. Moving across a polymer film, Millipede leaves footprints that encode information.

A Puzzling Increase in Earth's Oblateness

Barbara Goss Levi
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Geophysicists and oceanographers are scrambling to explain why the slight bulge around Earth's equator, which had been slowly shrinking since 1979, abruptly reversed that trend four years ago.
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Deep‐Sea Km3 Neutrino Detector Gets Thumbs Up

Toni Feder
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To realize a humongous underwater neutrino detector, scientists from the various smaller deep‐sea detectors should start laying the groundwork for an international collaboration, says a panel of experts.

PCAST Advises Bush to Boost S&T Role in New Homeland Security Department

Jim Dawson
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According to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, sophisticated technology will be an important tool in preventing and responding to terrorist attacks, and the new homeland security department must have a strong, centralized science and technology office to meet the challenge.

Solar and Space Physics Get a Detailed 10‐Year Plan

Jim Dawson
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A comprehensive National Research Council study weaves a decade's worth of projects together into a tapestry that could reveal the answers to some of the most difficult questions in solar and space physics.

Gell‐Mann Meets Muster Mark, Honors Hamilton

Toni Feder
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Physics Olympiad Held in Bali, US Stays Home

Anthony Tweed
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NAS Finds No Flaws in Nuclear Treaty

Paul Guinnessy
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Radiation Assessment at Risk

Toni Feder
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Contour Is Lost in Space

Paul Guinnessy
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Who Broke the Embargo? (It's the Wrong Question!)

Harvey I. Leifert
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AVS to Meet in Mile High City

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Risk‐Benefit Analysis

Richard Wilson, Edmund A. C. Crouch, and John H. Gibbons, Reviewer
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A Century of Physics

D. Allan Bromley and Benjamin Bederson, Reviewer
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Navier‐Stokes Equations and Turbulence

C. Foias, O. Manley, R. Rosa, R. Temam, and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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Physical Hydrodynamics

Etienne Guyon, Jean‐Pierre Hulin, Luc Petit, Catalin D. Mitescu, and Meinhard E. Mayer, Reviewer
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Curve Ball: Baseball, Statistics, and the Role of Chance in the Game

Jim Albert, Jay Bennett, and C. Alden Mead, Reviewer
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Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere

A. B. Watts and Norman H. Sleep, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Photonics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Three Cosmologists Share Dirac Medal

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AAPM Presents Annual Awards

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Frey Voted President‐Elect of AAPM

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Busch‐Vishniac to Lead ASA

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In Brief

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Nikolai Gennadievich Basov

Oleg Krokhin
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James Thomas Cushing

Don Howard and William McGlinn
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Harry George Drickamer

Jiri Jonas and Charles Slichter
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Raymond Webster Hayward

Ralph Hudson, Bert Coursey, and Sydney Meshkov
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Charles Thornton Murphy

Richard Carrigan, Bradley Cox, and Craig Moore
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Frank Joseph Padden Jr

Andrew J. Lovinger and H. Douglas Keith
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William Walkinshaw

John Burren and John Lawson
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