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Hunting for jobs at liberal arts colleges
Four-year colleges offer special challenges and rewards for physics faculty. Two veterans offer advice to physicists seeking to join their ranks — Suzanne Amador Kane and Kenneth Laws
Quantum gravity faces reality
String theory is only one of many approaches to quantizing general relativity. Increasingly, all those approaches will be judged by how well they accord with experimental data — Lee Smolin
Build astronomical observatories on the Moon? 
Yes—Paul D. Lowman Jr
Not so fast—Daniel F. Lester
Technological challenges, expense, and the problem of dust are among the issues to confront in any discussion of astronomy performed away from Earth. Two scientists debate the relative merits of Moon-based telescopes compared with ones in free space
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Reasonably effective: I. Deconstructing a miracle
— Frank Wilczek
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