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September 2003

Volume 56, Issue 9

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Why Many Undergraduate Physics Programs Are Good but Few Are Great

Robert C. Hilborn and Ruth H. Howes
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No single action, activity, or curricular reform will rescue a struggling physics department. Rather, it takes many elements, interacting over time, to make a department thrive.
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What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?

Barbara L. Whitten, Suzanne R. Foster, and Margaret L. Duncombe
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The predominance of men in physics remains a puzzle. To attract talented women and minorities, the culture of college physics needs a makeover.
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Paradigms in Physics: Restructuring the Upper Level

Corinne A. Manogue and Kenneth S. Krane
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Eight years ago, Oregon State University's physics faculty reshaped their curriculum into one focusing on themes and concepts that cut across a variety of subjects. Students, faculty, and teaching assistants discuss the changes.
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Physics Update

James Riordan
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Accelerators and Dinosaurs

Michael S. Turner
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More Than Texts Need Reform in Middle Schools

Martha Schwartz, Kimball A. Milton, Richard Factor, Douglas L. Ratay, Norman R. Dotti, Borut Gogala, Jay M. Pasachoff, and John Hubisz
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Counterterrorism Priorities and Policy

Ben Zuckerman, Henry E. Heatherly, Martin A. Ebert, Jay Davis, and Don Prosnitz
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Four Experiments Give Evidence of an Exotic Baryon With Five Quarks

Bertram Schwarzschild
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It's been a long‐standing puzzle that the quantum numbers of all the known mesons and baryons could be attributed to bound states of two or three quarks. But now the first exception has apparently been found.

Composite Molecules Store Rewritable Digital Data

Charles Day
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Gamma‐Ray Images Uncover Solar Flare Surprises

Charles Day
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A new space‐based observatory is providing unprecedented views of solar activity.
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APS Study Points to Severe Limits on Boost‐Phase Missile Defense

Jim Dawson
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A two‐year study challenges many of the assumptions behind the Bush administration's $600 million boost‐phase program.

HERA Scientists Fight to Extend Strong Interaction Studies

Toni Feder
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When should a productive machine be turned off?

Astronomers Lobby for New Lease on Hubble's Life

Paul Guinnessy
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Tight budgets, new rules for space shuttle missions since the Columbia disaster, and plans for the James Webb Space Telescope may stymie efforts to extend the life of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Work Progresses on Next‐Generation Space Telescope

Paul Guinnessy
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Virgo Gears Up to Wait for Gravitational Waves

Toni Feder
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Atkinson Arrives as State Department Science Adviser

Jim Dawson
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Disbanding of NNSA Advisory Panel Raises Concerns

Jim Dawson
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Bush Team Unveils 10‐Year Climate Change Research Plan

Jim Dawson
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Wadsworth Takes ORNL Helm

Toni Feder
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Scientists Plunge Into Policy

Audrey T. Leath
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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Biophysics: An Introduction

Rodney M. J. Cotterill and Howard C. Berg, Reviewer
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Gerhard Herzberg: An Illustrious Life in Science

Boris Stoicheff and William Klemperer, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Sensors

Lawrence G. Rubin
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OSA Names Recipients of 2003 Prizes

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AAPM Honors Medical Physics Achievements

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In Brief

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Hilda Gertrude Kingslake∕Rudolf Kingslake

Brian Thompson
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Pierre Aigrain

Philippe Nozières and Pierre Baruch
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Daniel Chonghan Hong

Douglas A. Kurtze, Moo Young Choi, H. Daniel Ou‐Yang, Yong W. Kim, and James D. Gunton
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Yutaka Uchida

Hugh S. Hudson and Takeo Kosugi
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Leon Van Speybroeck

Paul Gorenstein and Harvey Tananbaum
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