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February 2007

Volume 60, Issue 2

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Select this Article		Crumpling, Buckling, and Crackling: Elasticity of Thin Sheets Michael Marder, Robert D. Deegan, and Eran Sharon


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Select this Article		Casimir Forces: Still Surprising After 60 Years Steve K. Lamoreaux


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Select this Article		Memories of Feynman Theodore A. Welton


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		The Mysterious Glass Transition James Langer


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		Debate About Science and Religion Continues Michael Matthews, David Morrison, Moorad Alexanian, Joe Heafner, Juan G. Roederer, Keith Schofield, and Michael Todhunter


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Select this Article FREE		US Lack Nuclear‐Power Infrastructure Jim McEwen


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Select this Article FREE		Training Teachers for College Thomas Wofford


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Select this Article FREE		Diverse Thoughts on Diversity in Physics Ken Rideout, Nicholas C. Nicholas, Kristofer Gryte, and Shirley Malcom


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Select this Article FREE		Points or Knobs on Lightning Rods John Little


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		New Candidate Emerges for A Quantum Spin Liquid Barbara Goss Levi


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Select this Article		Designer Materials Render Objects Nearly Invisible to Microwaves Mark Wilson


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Select this Article		New Scanner Combines Positron Emissions Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Charles Day


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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 FREE		Future of US Nuclear Weapons A Tangle of Visions, Science, and Money Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		US‐India Nuclear Pact Gets Mixed Reaction Jim Dawson


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Select this Article		Bell Labs Parent Merges Into Communications Giant Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Dylla Tapped to Head AIP Toni Feder


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Select this Article FREE		Progress and Problems With Middle East Light Source Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Bert Schwarzchild and Toni Feder


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Select this Article		Web Watch


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MEETINGS

Select this Article		APS March Meeting to Convene in Denver


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BOOKS

Select this Article		Science on Stage: From “Doctor Faustus” to “Copenhagen” Kirsten Shepherd‐Barr and Carl Djerassi, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Google's Pagerank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings Amy N. Langville, Carl D. Meyer, and James Hendler, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age Joel N. Shurkin and Christophe Lécuyer, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Urban Forest Acoustics Voichita Bucur and Mauro Pierucci, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Simon Newcomb: America's Unofficial Astronomer Royal Bill Carter, Merri Sue Carter, and Bradley E. Schaefer, 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 Announces 2007 Award Winners


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Select this Article		NAE Hands Out Awards


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Obituaries: Markus Eduard Fierz Jürg Fröhlich, Klaus Hepp, and Peter Minkowski


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article		Your Wetting Day Laurent Courbin and Howard A. Stone


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		Detector on the Move


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