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SEP 01, 1997

Volume 50, Issue 9

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Physics Update
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Experiments Find Hysteresis and Precursors in the Stick‐Slip Friction of a Granular System
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Hipparcos Parallax Data May Reconcile Ages of Globular Clusters and the Universe
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Infrared Laser Illustrates Another Way to Achieve Gain
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Radio Telescope in Space Maps Quasar Jet
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San Jose Will Host AVS in October
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Brewing the Perfect Pint
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Era of Good Feeling for Balanced‐Budget Act Extends to FY 1998 Funding for R&D Agencies
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Fallout of Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in 1950s and 1960s Exposed More People to Iodine‐131 than Chernobyl Accident
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Garwin Uses Fermi Prize Event to Recommend Decisive Actions
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Washington Dispatches
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Washington Ins & Outs: Key Posts Filled at DOE and NSF
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NASA Sets Ambitious Strategic Plan for Space Science
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Threatened with Closure, the Royal Greenwich Observatory May Yet be Saved
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Newest Noaa Research Ship Studies Pacific Rainfall
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Bréchignac Becomes First Woman to Head CNRS
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A Physicist, Rexhep Mejdani, Now Leads Albania
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Board Grants Massachusetts Physics Programs a Reprieve
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In Brief
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Canada Hosts 1997 Physics Olympiad
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AAPM Recognizes Achievements in Medical Physics
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Canadian Physicists Honored
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In Brief
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Opinion

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Singularities and Blowups
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A Nobel Tale of Postwar Injustice
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Nonclassical Excitation in Spectroscopy with Squeezed Light
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Information Warfare: A Brief Guide to Defense Preparedness
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Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla—Biography of a Genius
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Macmillan Encyclopedia of Physics
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Introduction to the Theory of Ferromagnetism
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Theory of Nuclear Reactions
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Cosmology and Controversy: The Historical Development of Two Theories of the Universe
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The Magnetic Field of the Earth: Paleomagnetism, the Core, and the Deep Mantle
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Introduction to Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics
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New Books
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Focus on Semiconductor Technology
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Obituaries

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Robert Henry Dicke
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Carl Edward Sagan
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Ernest Charles Pollard
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Robert Benjamin Leighton
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Marcus Gerhardt Langseth
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Richard Tousey
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Roger John Tayler
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Richard Nathaniel Watts
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Paul Adams Beck
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Shang Yi Ch’en
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Pioneer Recalls How Computers Replaced Handwork at Oak Ridge
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Peer Instruction Not Peerless; Students Should Memorize More
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Did Landau Work—or Not Work—on the Soviet H‐Bomb?
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Unorthodox Parallel Revealed between Sarov and Los Alamos
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Ranking the Physics Departments—and the Weighting Game
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Why Do Minicomets Bombard Earth but Not Moon, Other Planets?
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The ‘Search for the New’: Looking Back at 50 Years of Physics
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Arnold Siegert Remembered
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Math Is Indeed a Key Part of Introductory Physics Textbook
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Corrections
SEP 01, 1997