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Select this Article		Initiating and Strengthening Plasma Research in Developing Countries Sing Lee and Chiow San Wong


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Select this Article FREE		The Biological Frontier of Physics Rob Phillips and Stephen R. Quake


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Select this Article		Pulsed Neutron Scattering for the 21st Century Thomas E. Mason


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PHYSICS UPDATE

Select this Article		Physics Update Stephen G. Benka, Phillip F. Schewe, and Benjamin P. Stein


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		On Absolute Units, III: Absolutely Not? Frank Wilczek


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Racial Tracking, Fixing Details, Speaking Out G. Stanley Brown, M. David Egan, Richard Camilli, and Fred Jerome


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Select this Article FREE		Da Vinci Could Have Used a Publicist Ajoy K. Baksi and Alan E. Shapiro


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		New Cosmic Microwave Background Results Strengthen the Case for Inflationary Big Bang Cosmology Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Genetically Engineered Fluorescent Protein Lights Up the Course of Electrical Signals in Mouse Hearts Charles Day


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		Industry and Academia Join Hands in Search for Post‐CMOS Logic Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Science Board Warns of Global S&T Competition as US K–12 Education Lags Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Energy Secretary Sends Yucca Legislation to Congress Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Debye Stripped of Honors Because of Nazi Past Toni Feder


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Select this Article FREE		Nobelist Creates Films on Solar Power Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Bodman Disbands DOE Advisory Board Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Cosmologist Wins Religion Prize Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Jim Dawson and Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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OPINION

Select this Article		Physics, Philosophy, and … Ecology Serge Luryi


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		CLEO∕QELS to Draw 6000


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BOOKS

Select this Article		How We Got Here: A Slightly Irreverent History of Technology and Markets Andy Kessler and Herbert I. Fusfeld, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Theory of Fluctuations in Superconductors Anatoly Larkin, Andrei Varlamov, and James F. Annett, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT Julius A. Stratton, Loretta H. Mannix, and Roger L. Geiger, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, and Alexander F. Brown, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Measurement Systems and Sensors Waldemar Nawrocki and Lawrence Rubin, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Lasers and Optics Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AGU Names Winners of Medals, Awards


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Select this Article		AAAS Honors Achievements


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Select this Article		Franklin Institute Bestows Awards


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Richard Errett Smalley Jason H. Hafner


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Select this Article FREE		David Tabor John Field


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Select this Article FREE		William Wayne Wood Jerome J. Erpenbeck and James D. Johnson


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