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November 2006

Volume 59, Issue 11

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Select this Article		Hunting for Jobs at Liberal Arts Colleges Suzanne Amador Kane and Kenneth Laws


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Select this Article		Quantum Gravity Faces Reality Lee Smolin


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Select this Article FREE		Build Astronomical Observatories on the Moon? Paul D. Lowman, Jr and Daniel F. Lester


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Reasonably Effective: I. Deconstructing a Miracle Frank Wilczek


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		New Einsteins Need Positive Environment, Independent Spirit Carlos R. Handy, Susan Ramlo, Amin Dharamsi, Asoke Mitra, Richard Dolan, and Lee Smolin


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Select this Article FREE		Teaching Physics Mysteries Versus Pseudoscience Fred Kuttner and Bruce Rosenblum


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Select this Article FREE		Averaging Operators in Turbulence George Treviño, Edgar L. Andreas, Gregory Falkovich, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Nanoelectromechanical System Approaches the Quantum Detection Limit Richard Fitzgerald


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Select this Article		Collision between Galaxy Clusters Unveils Striking Evidence of Dark Matter Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Physics Update Charles Day, Phillip F. Schewe, and Davide Castelvecchi


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article FREE		Challenging Recovery for New Orleans Universities after Hurricane Devastation Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Science Board Recommends Major Hurricane Research Program Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Reactor Experiments Seek Missing Neutrino Mixing Angle Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Scientists Go Political in New Organization Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Explaining Everyday Physics, Everywhere Toni Feder


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Select this Article		APS Undergoes Changing of the Guard Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Who Earns Degrees in Physics and Astronomy? Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Toni Feder and Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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BOOKS

Select this Article		The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams, and Michael S. Turner, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Astroparticle Physics Claus Grupen and Gus Sinnis, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Mad, Bad and Dangerous? The Scientist and the Cinema Christopher Frayling and Dave Pieri, Reviewer See Also: Erratum


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Select this Article		Electronic and Optical Properties of Conjugated Polymers William Barford and Jörg Fink, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Drawing Theories Apart: The Dispersion of Feynman Diagrams in Postwar Physics David Kaiser and Eugen Merzbacher, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Vacuum and Cryogenics Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		OSA Hands out Awards, Medals


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Select this Article		Fields Medals Awarded to Four


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Hershel Markovitz Guy C. Berry, Edward F. Casassa, Bernard D. Coleman, and Donald J. Plazek


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Select this Article FREE		Elizabeth Armstrong Wood Sidney C. Abrahams and Jenny P. Glusker


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		The Pros and Cons of Leap Seconds Brian Luzum


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BACK SCATTER

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