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Volume 56, Issue 2

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Select this Article		The Asymmetry Between Matter and Antimatter Helen R. Quinn

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Select this Article FREE		Bubble Puzzles Detlef Lohse

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Select this Article		Mozart and Quantum Mechanics: An Appreciation of Victor Weisskopf Kurt Gottfried and J. David Jackson

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Select this Article		The Privilege of Being a Physicist Victor F. Weisskopf

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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Phil Schewe and Ben Stein

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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Life's Parameters Frank Wilczek

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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Kagome: The Story of the Basketweave Lattice Mamoru Mekata

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Select this Article FREE		Students Need Scientific Habits and Basic Concepts David L. Taylor

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Select this Article FREE		DARI to Go Where Radiation Has Gone Before Michael P. R. Waligórski

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Select this Article FREE		Hiroshima Bomb's Explosive Yield Less than Reported Henry E. Heatherly

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Select this Article FREE		Correction

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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Thermal Gradients Can Boost the Local Concentration of DNA in Solution Charles Day

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Select this Article		GRACE Satellites Start to Map Earth's Gravity Field Barbara Goss Levi

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Select this Article		Infrared Adaptive Optics Reveals Stars Orbiting Within Light‐Hours of the Milky Way's Center Bertram Schwarzschild

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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Browne Leaves Los Alamos Directorship, Perplexed but Resigned Jim Dawson

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Select this Article FREE		Younger Speaks From the Frontline of Defense Paul Guinnessy

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Select this Article		Einstein Exhibit In‐Depth in New York Jim Dawson

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Select this Article		Closer NNSA–Academic Links Needed to Boost Plasma Physics, NRC Says Jim Dawson

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Select this Article		Physics Education in the Netherlands Gets Good Marks, Advice Toni Feder

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Select this Article		Sreenivasan Called to Head ICTP Toni Feder

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Select this Article		News Notes Jim Dawson and Toni Feder

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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day

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OPINION

Select this Article FREE		Arrogance—A Dangerous Weapon of the Physics Trade? J. Murray Gibson

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MEETINGS

Select this Article		APS Heads to Austin, Texas, for Its Annual March Meeting

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BOOKS

Select this Article		Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA Brenda Maddox and Eugenie V. Mielczarek, Reviewer

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Select this Article		True Genius: The Life and Science of John Bardeen, the Only Winner of Two Nobel Prizes in Physics Lillian Hoddeson, Vicki Daitch, and J. Robert Schrieffer, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Journey from the Center of the Sun Jack B. Zirker and Loren W. Acton, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Stellar Physics G. S. Bisnovatyi‐Kogan and Robert Deupree, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Mathematics of Genome Analysis Jerome K. Percus and Ralf Bundschuh, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Encyclopedia of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry John H. Moore, Nicholas D. Spencer, and William Klemperer, Reviewer

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Select this Article		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article		Focus on Magnetics Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Dresselhaus to Head AIP Board

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Select this Article		APS Bestows Honors in a Wide Range of Fields

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Select this Article		Peterson is AAPT Vice President for 2003

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Select this Article		In Brief

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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Boyce Dawkins McDaniel Peter Stein and Albert Silverman

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Select this Article FREE		Gordon James Stanley Kenneth Kellermann

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Select this Article FREE		Gilbert Shapiro Owen Chamberlain, William Chinowsky, and Herbert Steiner

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Select this Article FREE		Leonid Yakovlevich Margolin Howard Milchberg

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