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August 2002

Volume 55, Issue 8

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Sinks for Anthropogenic Carbon

Jorge L. Sarmiento and Nicolas Gruber
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We have learned much about the workings of natural sinks like the oceans and terrestrial plants, but are just beginning to understand how their behavior might change as atmospheric CO2 concentrations rise.

Superconducting Magnets Above 20 Tesla

Steven W. Van Sciver and Kenneth R. Marken
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Superconductors are key components of magnets that generate homogeneous, low‐noise, and extremely stable high fields. Further increasing the strength of these fields will require meeting a number of technological challenges.

The Early History of Quantum Tunneling

Eugen Merzbacher
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Molecular spectra, electron emission from metals, and alpha decay provided fertile ground in the 1920s for applying the new ideas of quantum mechanics.
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Physics Update

Philip F. Schewe and James R. Riordan
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Scaling Mount Planck III: Is That All There Is?

Frank Wilczek
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University Research Funding: More than Supporting the Best to Do the Best

Gregory Salamo, Alexander A. Berezin, David Montgomery, and Howard Birnbaum
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Readers Illuminate Issues of Solid‐State Lighting

John F. Waymouth, Jerry M. Woodall, and Arpad Bergh
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Revamping High‐School Science: Herding Cats

Gary L. Kinsland, Lev I. Berger, Donald Rehfuss, Paul M. Rutherford, Martin D. Stewart, Vinson Bronson, and Leon Lederman


See Also: Erratum

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Love, Not Paycheck, Motivates Best Physics Students

Garrett T. Biehle
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Phenomenologists Are Underrated in Theory‐Experiment Debate

Harry J. Lipkin
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Kepler's Singular Harmony

Owen Gingerich
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New Era for Physics Includes Outreach

Varadaraja V. Raman, J. V. Martinez, and Thomas Appelquist
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Clarification on Laser Dye Concentrations

F. J. Duarte
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Corrections

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Remotely Sensed Neutrons and Gamma Rays Reveal Ice beneath the Martian Surface

Charles Day
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Recent observations could clarify the fate of water that once flowed on Mars.

Observing the Cosmic Microwave Background at High Resolution Bolsters the Inflationary Big Bang Scenario

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The angular resolution of the new Cosmic Background Imager is fine enough to reveal, for the first time, the primordial seeds of galaxy clusters.

Choreographing Wave Propagation in Excitable Media

Charles Day
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Science and Technology Are a Focus of Debate on New Homeland Security Department

Jim Dawson
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Congress, the administration , and a National Research Council committee have come up with myriad ideas for creating a department of homeland security, but just what role science and technology will play is unclear.

Components of ‘Little Boy’ Sold at Auction

Paul Guinnessy
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European Space Science Stretches Lean Budget

Toni Feder
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To save its science missions, ESA will follow a more rigid schedule and forge closer cooperation with national space agencies.

New Criteria for Determining Interagency R&D Budgets

Jim Dawson
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Since the early days of the Bush administration, OMB officials have warned that tighter rules for funding interagency R&D programs were on the way. The rules have arrived, and they cover applied and basic research.

Recipe for LHC Success: Subtract Other Science, Add Accountability

Toni Feder
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CERN has begun implementing accounting and organizational changes and is slashing programs that do not directly support the Large Hadron Collider.

Synchrotron Partners Take Steps to Open SESAME

Toni Feder
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Lo to Lead NRAO

Toni Feder
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Totsuka Tapped as KEK Chief

Paul Guinnessy
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News Notes

Jim Dawson and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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The Statistical Mechanics of Financial Markets

Johannes Voit and Robert W. Lourie, Reviewer
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An Introduction to Particle Accelerators

E. J. N. Wilson and Ronald D. Ruth, Reviewer
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Statistical Mechanics of Learning

A. Engel, C. Van den Broeck, and John Hertz, Reviewer
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Quantum Optics in Phase Space

Wolfgang P. Schleich and Joseph H. Eberly, Reviewer
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Molecular Engineering of Nanosystems

Edward A. Rietman and Robert J. Hamers, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Analytical Instruments

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AGU Bestows Honors in Washington

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Bloch Honored by the NSB

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In Brief

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Max Ferdinand Perutz

Francis Crick
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George Dixon Rochester

Arnold Wolfendale
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Gösta Gustafson and Torbjörn Sjöstrand
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Wade Lanford Fite

David Jasnow
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Yuri Ilich Galperin

David P. Stern
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Warren Elliot Henry

Hattie Carwell and William A. Lester, Jr
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Robert Simpson Livingston

James B. Ball
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Harry Lee Morrison

Keith H. Jackson
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