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Select this Article FREE		Science‐Based Cleanup of Rocky Flats David L. Clark, David R. Janecky, and Leonard J. Lane


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Select this Article		A Look at Physics in Cuba Angelo Baracca, Víctor Fajer, and Carlos Rodríguez


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Select this Article		Fermi and Pooh: A Strange Mix Denise DeGarmo


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Select this Article		From the Archives: The Stability of the Bicycle David E. H. Jones


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		An Educational Moment? Leo Kadanoff


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Creating the Measure of Chandrasekhar's Life Arthur I. Miller, D. C. V. Mallik, and Kameshwar Wali


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Select this Article FREE		Distance Learning a Losing Tactic for Advanced Physics Cecilia Barnbaum


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Select this Article FREE		Phillips's Death Marks the End of an Era Y. V. Rao


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Select this Article FREE		Memories of Philip Morrison E. B. Bagley and Herbert Lin


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Select this Article FREE		Rutherford on the 1906 San Francisco Quake Jay M. Pasachoff and Naomi Pasachoff


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Tiny Oscillating Circuit Exhibits New Quantization of Electrical Conductance Charles Day


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Select this Article		Neural‐Network Model May Explain the Surprisingly Good Infrared Vision of Snakes Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Nuclear Spin Polarization Induced Solely by a Rotating Magnetic Field Barbara Goss Levi


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


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ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		DARPA Joins Industry, Academia to Build Better Prosthetic Arms Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		NASA Saves SOFIA by Slashing Planet‐Finding Funds Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Portugal Builds on Renewables Effort with $78M Solar Plant Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Nanotech Risk Research Needs Strategy, Money Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Boltzmann Honored on Death Centenary Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Nasa Aeronautics Lacks Money, Relevance, NRC Says Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Zero‐Gravity Flights Aim to Boost Interest in S&T Careers Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Singapore, Slovakia Host High‐School Physics Competitions Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Numbers Up in Undergraduate Physics, Astronomy Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Physics has Merit in New Boy Scouts Program Jim Dawson


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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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MEETINGS

Select this Article		AVS Annual Symposium, Industrial Physics Forum have Broad Appeal


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BOOKS

Select this Article		The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius Joyce E. Chaplin and John L. Heilbron, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America Philip Dray and John L. Heilbron, Reviewer

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Select this Article		Comets: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and Their Cosmogonical Relevance Julio Angel Fernández and John C. Brandt, Reviewer


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Select this Article		The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality Dalai Lama and Arthur Zajonc, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Determined Scientist Roger Hahn and Thomas L. Hankins, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Glassy Materials and Disordered Solids: An Introduction to Their Statistical Mechanics Kurt Binder, Walter Kob, and Alexander Burin, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books

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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Magnetics and Electromagnetism Lawrence G. Rubin

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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		Grove is AGU President‐Elect


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Select this Article		Perlmutter Wins Feltrinelli Prize


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Arthur B. Metzner Morton M. Denn, A. V. Ramamurthy, and T. W. Fraser Russell


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Select this Article FREE		Philip Russell Wallace Kurt Gottfried, John David Jackson, and Harry C. S. Lam


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		A Glossary of Cellular Components Ned S. Wingreen


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		The Birth of Electrostatics


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