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June 2003

Volume 56, Issue 6

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The Search for a Permanent Electric Dipole Moment

Norval Fortson, Patrick Sandars, and Stephen Barr
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Small‐scale experiments sensitive to tiny effects could offer profound insights into what lies beyond the standard model of elementary particles.

Supercooled and Glassy Water

Pablo G. Debenedetti and H. Eugene Stanley
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Cold, noncrystalline states play an important role in understanding the physics of liquid water. From recent experimental and theoretical investigations, a coherent interpretation of water's properties is beginning to emerge.

Plasma Accelerators at the Energy Frontier and on Tabletops

Chandrashekhar Joshi and Thomas Katsouleas
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Charged particles surfing on electron density waves in plasmas can experience enormous accelerating gradients.
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Physics Update

Phil Schewe, Ben Stein, and Stephen Benka
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Weighing Proton Therapy's Clinical Readiness and Costs

Bernard Gottschalk, Andreas M. Koehler, Richard Wilson, R. J. Schulz, A. Robert Kagan, Michael Goitein, Antony J. Lomax, and Eros S. Pedroni
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UNSCEAR Back on the Job

Zbigniew Jaworowski
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Financial Planning 101 for Career Physicists

Marc D. Levinson
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Continuous Neutron Source Needed

Robert A. Bari
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Hydrogen Adsorbed on Silicon Carbide Creates Metallic Surface States

Mark Wilson
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Researchers expected adsorption to eliminate surface electronic states. Instead, it created one‐dimensional states that resemble nanowires.

The Force Need Not Be With You: Curvature Begets Motion

Steven K. Blau
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Cyclic deformations can alter the free‐fall motion of a composite body as it moves through curved spacetime.
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Post–September 11th Visa Woes Still Plague International Students and Scientists

Jim Dawson
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Prospective international students and visiting scientists are facing greater security scrutiny and long delays before obtaining US visas. Those already in the US are being advised not to leave for fear of not being allowed to return.

NSF Nears Decision on Underground Lab Site

Jim Dawson
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As a Canadian mining company appears determined to shut off the pumps that keep South Dakota's Homestake mine from flooding, the threat of high water is pressuring NSF to choose among three possible underground labs.

New Mexico Plans Optical Interferometer and Fast‐Slewing Telescope

Toni Feder
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Thanks to pork‐barrel funding, a small university in New Mexico is building an observatory with scientific, educational, and military applications.

Not All in a Flash

Toni Feder
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Astronomers Save Historic Plates

Paul Guinnessy
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VERITAS Scrambles to Find New Site

Toni Feder
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Russian Prize Aims to Stimulate Energy Research

Toni Feder
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Masters in the Field

Toni Feder
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News Notes

Jim Dawson and Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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What Criteria Should Be Used to Establish Funding Priorities?

D. Allan Bromley
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Crystallographers Convene South of Cincinnati

Judy Barker
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A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals About the Past and Future of Our Species, Planet, and Universe

Gino Segrè and Peter Salamon, Reviewer
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In War and Peace: My Life in Science and Technology

Guy Stever and D. Allan Bromley, Reviewer
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Advanced Solid State Physics

Philip Phillips and Subir Sachdev, Reviewer
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Bose–Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases

C. J. Pethick, H. Smith, and Tin‐Lun Ho, Reviewer
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Soft Condensed Matter

R. A. L. Jones and David A. Weitz, Reviewer
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The Science of Soccer

John Wesson and John D. McCullen, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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ASA Bestows Awards in Nashville

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Scientists Honored for Work in Geophysics

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NAE Adds to Its Ranks

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In Brief

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Arthur Taylor Winfree

Steven Strogatz
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Charles Kincaid Bockelman

Robert K. Adair and D. Allan Bromley
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Bunji Sakita

Michio Kaku, Antal Jevicki, and Spenta R. Wadia
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Bruce Albert Scott

Nabil M. Amer
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Anthony Leonid Turkevich

Thanasis E. Economou and Gerald J. Wasserburg
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