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August 2004

Volume 57, Issue 8

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Satellite‐Observed Changes in the Arctic

Josefino C. Comiso and Claire L. Parkinson
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The Arctic has warmed by about 1°C in the past two decades. That time period has seen glaciers retreat, permafrost thaw, snow cover decrease, and ice sheets thin.

Edward Teller's Scientific Life

Stephen B. Libby and Morton S. Weiss
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The young Teller applied the new quantum mechanics theory to understanding molecules. In later years, his interest in nuclear fusion and matter at high energy density meshed naturally with his role in national defense.
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Edward Teller in the Public Arena

Harold Brown and Michael May
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Having lived through upheavals in Hungary and Germany between the wars, Teller understood that political and military catastrophes are entirely possible. He was, perhaps, less aware that catastrophe can result from excess as well as inaction.
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Physics Update

Ben Stein and Phil Schewe
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Professor Feshbach and His Resonance

Daniel Kleppner
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The Brilliant Hallucination of Untested and Unmeasured Theory

Robert J. Reiland, Pantazis Mouroulis, Juan Pablo Pardo‐Guerra, and Michael Riordan
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Carefully Chosen Words on Antievolutionism

Robert Levine
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Hooke, Newton, and the Trials of Historical Examination

Ofer Gal and Michael Nauenberg
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Questioning the Rules in Coastal Erosion

Andrew Cooper, Orrin Pilkey, Bruce C. Douglas, Stephen P. Leatherman, and Keqi Zhang
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Henderson Mine a Promising Candidate for Underground Lab

Stephen C. Schultz and Jack B. Stauffer
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Footnotes to the Life of Albert R. Hibbs

James Chen‐min Ho, Shau‐Jin Chang, Li‐Chen Wang, and William J. McPeak
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Foundational Work in Fermionic Condensates

Carl Wieman
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Ultracold Gases of Fermionic Atoms Offer Another Path to Atom Interferometry

Barbara Goss Levi
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One advantage of Fermi gases over Bose–Einstein condensates is the absence of collisions that can destroy an interference pattern.

Reevaluation of Top Quark Data Raises Estimate of Higgs Boson's Mass

Bertram Schwarzschild
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An improved method for weighing the heaviest quark promises more stringent tests of particle theory.
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ITER Impasse Illustrates Challenge of Site Selection

Toni Feder
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The more partners in a project, the more resources available, but the more complicated decision making becomes.

Novices and Nobelists Gather in Lindau

Stephen G. Benka
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The global face of science had lots of smiles at an unusual annual meeting in Germany, on the shores of Lake Constance.

Push for Kerry by Scientists Draws Republican Ire

Jim Dawson
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A growing number of politically active scientists, dismayed with how science has fared under the Bush administration, are urging their colleagues to work for John Kerry.

Projected R&D Cuts Alarm Science Community

Jim Dawson
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Light and Color for Minority Middle Schoolers

Toni Feder
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NIST Opens Highly Controllable Lab Space

Paul Guinnessy
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Chu Named Berkeley Lab Director

Toni Feder
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Fusion Science Centers Reach Out to Other Fields

Toni Feder
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Web Watch

Charles Day
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News Notes

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Quantum Mechanics: Fundamentals

Kurt Gottfried, Tung‐Mow Yan, and William Happer, Reviewer
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Jerry Wiesner: Scientist, Statesman, Humanist—Memories and Memoirs

Walter A. Rosenblith and Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky, Reviewer
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Electronic Basis of the Strength of Materials

John Gilman and Duane D. Johnson, Reviewer
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Quantum Chromodynamics: High Energy Experiments and Theory

Günther Dissertori, Ian Knowles, Michael Schmelling, and Benjamin Grinstein, Reviewer
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New Books

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Focus on Software

Lawrence G. Rubin
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AAS Honors Rees and Others

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ASA Awards Presented in New York

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New Members Join NAS

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Yost Is ASA President‐Elect

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In Brief

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Thomas Edward Allibone

Peter Tanner
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Morton Hamermesh

Benjamin Bayman, Steven Gasiorowicz, and Allen Goldman
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August Carl Helmholz

Leroy Kerth, Howard Shugart, and George Trilling
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Ija Pavlovna Ipatova

Joseph L. Birman, Alexei A. Maradudin, Robert Pick, and Karl K. Rebane
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Mikael Levonovich Ter‐Mikaelian

Karo Ispirian, Eduard Vardanyan, and Ralph Fiorito
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