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Select this Article		Introducing Groundwater Physics Mary P. Anderson


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Select this Article		Multiple Scattering in Evolving Media Roel Snieder and John Page


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Select this Article		Remembering the Oil‐Drop Experiment Michael F. Perry


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REFERENCE FRAME

Select this Article		Reasonably Effective: II. Devil's Advocate Frank Wilczek


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LETTERS

Select this Article FREE		The Value of a Good Science Education Robert Levine, James C. Pechmann, Judith B. Pechmann, and Arthur Smith


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Select this Article FREE		New Teaching Credential Joe Heafner


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Select this Article FREE		A Bet, Little Boy, and Spontaneous Fission Maurice Goldhaber, Jeremy Bernstein, John Jaros, Shoji Nagamiya, and Herbert Steiner


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Select this Article FREE		Galaxy Collisions and Ordinary Dark Matter Aden Baker Meinel


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Select this Article FREE		Emil Konopinski, Mentor to Bahcall Roger G. Newton


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Select this Article FREE		LIGO Precision Understated Michael E. Zucker


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Select this Article FREE		Superparticles on the Energy Horizon Henry Frisch and S. James Gates, Jr.


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Select this Article FREE		Salivating Over Chocolate James L. Throne and Erich Windhab


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Select this Article FREE		Correction


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SEARCH AND DISCOVERY

Select this Article		Fluorescence Telescopes Observe the Predicted Ultrahigh‐Energy Cutoff of the Cosmic‐Ray Spectrum Bertram Schwarzschild


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Select this Article		Time‐Resolved Electric‐Field Measurements Probe Plasma Breakdown Johanna Miller


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Select this Article		A Photonic Crystal Localizes Light in Two Dimensions Mark Wilson


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Select this Article		Physics Update Phillip F. Schewe, Benjamin P. Stein, and Bertram Schwarzchild


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	+ -	Show Topic Plutonium's bizarre behavior explained; Hyperactive antifreeze proteins; Making slow salt; Unpaired top quarks; Free‐space transmission of quantum code

ISSUES AND EVENTS

Select this Article		EU Hammers Out Pact to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions Karen H. Kaplan

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Select this Article		New Chief Vows to Reinvigorate Italian Space Activities Toni Feder


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Select this Article FREE		NASA Cancels Science Flight, Ditches International Partners Paul Guinnessy


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Select this Article		Russian Academy of Sciences Weathers Round of Attacks Toni Feder


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Select this Article		News Notes Toni Feder and Karen H. Kaplan


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Select this Article		Web Watch Charles Day


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Select this Article		Special Report: Budget Boosts Physical Sciences in FY 2008, Most Other Research Down Jim Dawson


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BOOKS

Select this Article		The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World and The Martians of Science: Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century Kati Marton, István Hargittai, and Barton J. Bernstein, Reviewer


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Select this Article		A Short Introduction to Quantum Information and Quantum Computation Michel Le Bellac and Gregg Jaeger, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Statistical Mechanics: Entropy, Order Parameters James P. Sethna and Susan Coppersmith, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes Alex Vilenkin and Andrei Linde, Reviewer


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Select this Article		Experimental Techniques for Low‐Temperature Measurements: Cryostat Design, Material Properties, and Superconductor Critical‐Current Testing Jack W. Ekin and George O. Zimmerman, Reviewer


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Select this Article FREE		New Books


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NEW PRODUCTS

Select this Article FREE		Focus on Data Acquisition Lawrence G. Rubin


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WE HEAR THAT

Select this Article		AAS Names Winners of Awards, Prizes


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Select this Article		In Brief


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OBITUARIES

Select this Article FREE		Martin David Kruskal Norman J. Zabusky and Robert M. Miura


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Select this Article FREE		Fred Noel Spiess John A. Hildebrand


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Select this Article FREE		Alvin Martin Weinberg Alexander Zucker


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QUICK STUDY

Select this Article FREE		The Physics in Your Fork Louis A. Bloomfield


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BACK SCATTER

Select this Article		Probing an Invisible Plasma


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