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Select this Article		Fifty Years of Seeing Atoms Tien T. Tsong


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Select this Article		Two Hundred Years of Capillarity Research Yves Pomeau and Emmanuel Villermaux


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Select this Article		Macromolecular Phasing Qun Shen, Quan Hao, and Sol M. Gruner


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Stephen G. Benka and Phillip F. Schewe


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article FREE		Time Too Good to Be True Daniel Kleppner


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Physics, Reductionism, and the Real World David Gentile, Dave Rauschenfels, and George Ellis


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Select this Article FREE		Handling DNA Credit with Care Lynne Osman Elkin


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Select this Article FREE		Scientists Don't Want New Careers in Desktop Publishing David K. Lynch

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Select this Article FREE		Note on a Rosalind Franklin Note Lynne Osman Elkin


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Semiconductor Quantum Dots Take First Steps Toward Spin‐Based Quantum Computation Charles Day


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Select this Article		Enormous Magnetic Reconnection Event Washes over Three Spacecraft Millions of Kilometers Apart Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article FREE		Microfluidic Chip Synthesizes Radiolabel for Positron Emission Tomography Mark Wilson


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Outlook for French Science Still Uncertain, Even as CNRS Crisis Subsides Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Bush Budget Boosts NSF, DOE, and NIST Science for FY 2007 Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Billionaire Scientist Rescues RHIC Run Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		US Visa Processing Speeds Up Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Physics Employment in US Reflects Weakened Economy Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		APS March Meeting Has Broad Purview


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Conflict in the Cosmos: Fred Hoyle's Life in Science Simon Mitton and Roger Blandford, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life Eric D. Schneider and Christopher Jarzynski, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Grand Contraption: The World as Myth, Number and Chance David Park and Helge Kragh, Reviewer


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Select this Article		A First Course in Computational Physics and Object‐Oriented Programming with C++ David Yevick and Jan Tobochnik, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Einstein 1905: The Standard of Greatness John S. Rigden and Alberto Martínez, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Spectroscopy Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		APS Hands Out Awards and Prizes at March and April Meetings


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Select this Article		Pinkerton Is ACA Vice President for 2006


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Select this Article		AAPT Honors Two


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Philip Morrison Leo Sartori and Kosta Tsipis


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Select this Article FREE		Leo Brewer Rollie J. Myers


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Select this Article FREE		Hubert Curien Roger‐Maurice Bonnet

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Select this Article FREE		Paul Leon Hartman Douglas B. Fitchen, Neil W. Ashcroft, and John Silcox


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