Feature Articles
Science-based cleanup of Rocky Flats 
The chemical and physical interactions of radioactive compounds are key to understanding how they can contaminate the environment and, more importantly, how best to remove them — David L. Clark, David R. Janecky, and Leonard J. Lane
A look at physics in Cuba
Some people might believe that the history of physics in Cuba is like that of many other countries, except for the Soviet influence on a socialist country during the cold war. The full story is very different — Angelo Baracca, Víctor Fajer, and Carlos Rodríguez
Fermi and Pooh: A strange mix
Some beloved children's characters played an unexpected role in the science of Enrico Fermi — Denise DeGarmo
From the archives: The stability of the bicycle
Tired of quantum electrodynamics, Brillouin zones, Regge poles? Try this old, unsolved problem in dynamics: How does a bike work? — David E. H. Jones
Letters
Creating the measure of Chandrasekhar's life
Distance learning a losing tactic for advanced physics
Phillips's death marks the end of an era
Memories of Philip Morrison
Rutherford on the 1906 San Francisco quake
Meetings
AVS annual symposium, Industrial Physics Forum have broad appeal
Books
The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius,
J. E. Chaplin, and
Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America,
P. Dray (reviewed by J. L. Heilbron)
Comets: Nature, Dynamics, Origin, and Their Cosmogonical Relevance,
J. A. Fernández (reviewed by J. C. Brandt)
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality,
Dalai Lama (reviewed by A. Zajonc)
Pierre Simon Laplace, 1749–1827: A Determined Scientist,
R. Hahn (reviewed by T. L. Hankins)
Glassy Materials and Disordered Solids: An Introduction to Their Statistical Mechanics,
K. Binder and W. Kob (reviewed by A. Burin)
New Books
New Products
Focus on magnetics and electromagnetism
We Hear That
Grove is AGU president-elect
Perlmutter wins Feltrinelli Prize
Obituaries
Arthur B. Metzner
Philip Russell Wallace
quick study
A glossary of cellular components — Ned S. Wingreen
Back Scatter
The birth of electrostatics
