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November 2003

Volume 56, Issue 11

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Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini‐Nukes, and the US Nuclear Stockpile

Robert W. Nelson
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The Bush administration is contemplating a new crop of nuclear weapons that could reduce the threat to civilian populations. However, they're still unlikely to work without producing massive radioactive fallout, and their development might require a return to underground nuclear testing.
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The Growth of Astrophysical Understanding

Martin Harwit
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A stroll through three millennia of astronomical speculation and discovery reminds us that inspired guesses are not enough. Progress comes primarily from the introduction of new observational and theoretical tools.
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The Business of Academic Physics

John S. Rigden and James H. Stith
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A physics education is a solid foundation for a diverse range of careers, but physics students do not know it. It is time they found out, and physics alumnae and alumni can help.
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Physics Update

Phil Schewe and Ben Stein
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Strict Internal Review May Curb Research Fraud

Giorgio Margaritondo
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National Labs and Industry Assist FSU Institutes

Ken Touryan
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Interference in a Double Rainbow

E. Blaise Saccocio
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Nobel Work Done at Francis Bitter Lab

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Ideas for Improving Peer Review

Jorge Mira‐Perez
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Moving Through Curved Spacetime

Geoffrey A. Landis and Jack Wisdom
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More on Early LEDs

John W. Allen
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Science vs. Religion: An American Pastime?

Vit Klemes
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An Optical Probe Can Map Quantum Dot Wavefunctions

Richard Fitzgerald
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Near‐field optical microscopy, with its subwavelength resolution, provides a new look at nanostructures' electronic states.

Neutron Diffraction Overcomes Flux Limits to Resolve a Large Protein Structure

Charles Day
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To demonstrate the effectiveness of neutron diffraction in biology, crystallographers bring neutrons to bear on an important industrial enzyme.

Self‐Assembled Molecular Grid Hosts Ordered Layers of Buckyballs

Charles Day
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Disappointing Collider Performance and Tight Budgets Confront Fermilab With Tough Decisions

Bertram Schwarzschild
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The goal remains to get the most physics out of the world's highest‐energy accelerator before that title passes to CERN at the end of the decade.

Mercury Telescope Spins Up

Toni Feder
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Pending solid science from the new Large Zenith Telescope, a group of scientists hopes to build an extremely large—and extremely cheap—array of liquid mercury telescopes.

Europe Wrestles With ITER Site Bid

Toni Feder
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New Science Forum Aims at Political, Industry Leaders

Jim Dawson
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Atomic History as Art

Paul Guinnessy
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Physics Salaries Rise

Toni Feder
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Retired General to Tighten Sandia Security

Jim Dawson
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News Notes

Jim Dawson,
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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No Time to Be Brief: A Scientific Biography of Wolfgang Pauli

Charles P. Enz and Valentine L. Telegdi, Reviewer
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Cohesion: A Scientific History of Intermolecular Forces

J. S. Rowlinson and Dudley Herschbach, Reviewer
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Order and Chaos in Dynamical Astronomy

George Contopoulos and Prasenjit Saha, Reviewer
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Liquid Crystals: Fundamentals

Shri Singh and Peter J. Collings, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Vacuum and Cryogenics

Lawrence G. Rubin
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Geophysicists Honored by AGU

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AAPT Announces Award Winners

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Astronomer Wins a Balzan Prize

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Two Physicists Claim Share of Dutch Science Prize

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Amols Elected to Lead AAPM

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In Brief

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Marx Brook

Paul Krehbiel
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Wilfried Wolfgang Daehnick

C. Martin Vincent, Bernard L. Cohen, and Hans‐Otto Meyer
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André Stephane Hamer

Art McDonald and Andrew Hime
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Konrad Bates Krauskopf

W. Gary Ernst
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William George McMillan Jr

Robert L. Scott and Charles M. Knobler
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Masahiro Wakatani

Satoshi Hamaguchi, Akira Hasegawa, and James W. Van Dam
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