October 1998
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; October 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; October 1998; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

From the Editors, including Masthead; October 1998; by Rennie; 1 Page(s)

Learning from the Hackers

Letters to the Editors; October 1998; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago.; October 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

In Focus: Personal Pills; October 1998; by Stix; 2 Page(s)

Genetic differences may dictate how drugs are prescribed

In the Heat of the Night; October 1998; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)

Warmer nights may be slowing tropical forest growth and raising carbon dioxide levels

Polarized Life; October 1998; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)

Astronomers probe Orion to answer one of life's mysteries

String Instruments; October 1998; by Musser; 2 Page(s)

String theory may soon be testable

In Brief; October 1998; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)

Cloned Clones; Good News Blues; Camp Toxic; Quitting Aids; Future Time; Stick Up; Wet Weekends; Dilbert's Corollary; Breakthrough Brewing?

After the Deluge; October 1998; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)

A hurricane's effects on species are starkly revealed

By the Numbers: Where the Doctors Aren't; October 1998; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)

The U.S. has more than 640,000 physicians involved in patient care-one for every 420 Americans.

Anti Gravity: Whale Weight Watching; October 1998; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Call me a schlemiel. Some weeks ago - it was in July actually - having few if any pressing assignments, and nothing particularly interesting for sure, I hooked up with an outfit called the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources, which schlepped me and a bunch of other reporters around Maine for a week and a day so we could acquire expertise in environmental issues.

Profile: Starving Tumors of Their Lifeblood; October 1998; by Ezzell; 2 Page(s)

No, Judah Folkman probably won't cure cancer in two years. He says he simply hopes to render it a manageable, chronic disease

Bloodless Testing; October 1998; by Nelson; 2 Page(s)

Noninvasive glucose monitors for diabetics are on the way, but cost could be a problem

Inner-City Violence; October 1998; by Dupont; 2 Page(s)

The U.S. military tries to prepare for urban warfare

Phantom Touch; October 1998; by Stix; 2 Page(s)

Imbuing a prosthesis with manual dexterity

Cyber View; October 1998; by Grossman; 1 Page(s)

Y2K: The End of the World as We Know It

Galaxies behind the Milky Way; October 1998; by Kraan-Korteweg, Lahav; 8 Page(s)

Over a fifth of the universe is hidden from view, blocked by dust and stars in the disk of our galaxy. But over the past few years, astronomers have found ways to peek through the murk

Designer Estrogens; October 1998; by Jordan; 8 Page(s)

These compounds - also called SERMs - have evolved from mere laboratory curiosities into drugs that hold promise for preventing several major disorders in women

Secrets of the Slime Hag; October 1998; by Martini; 6 Page(s)

Loathsome though they may seem, hagfishes may also resemble the earliest animals to have a braincase - making them even older than the first animals to develop a backbone

The Asymmetry between Matter and Antimatter; October 1998; by Quinn, Witherell; 6 Page(s)

In 1999 new accelerators will start searching for violations in a fundamental symmetry of nature, throwing open a window to physics beyond the known

The Artistry of Microorganisms; October 1998; by Ben-Jacob, Levine; 6 Page(s)

Colonies of bacteria or amoebas form complex patterns that blur the boundary between life and nonlife

Simon Newcomb: Astronomer with an Attitude; October 1998; by Moyer; 6 Page(s)

The most celebrated American astronomer of the late 19th century advocated broad social and cultural reforms based on the use of scientific method

Computer Security and the Internet; October 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

This past February hackers reached through the Internet to break into the computer networks at various U.S. Air Force and Navy sites.

How Hackers Break In... and How They Are Caught; October 1998; by Meinel; 8 Page(s)

Port scanners, core dumps and buffer overflows are but a few of the many weapons in every sophisticated hacker's arsenal. Still, no hacker is invincible

How Computer Security Works; October 1998; by Cheswick, Bellovin; 4 Page(s)

Three types of safeguards offer a formidable defense against Internet intruders

Cryptography for the Internet; October 1998; by Zimmermann; 6 Page(s)

E-mail and other information sent electronically are like digital postcards - they afford little privacy. Well-designed cryptography systems can ensure the secrecy of such transmissions.

The Case against Regulating Encryption Technology; October 1998; by Rivest; 2 Page(s)

One of the pioneers of computer security says the U.S. government should keep its hands off cryptography

The Amateur Scientist; October 1998; by Carlson; 3 Page(s)

Home Movies of an Invisible World

Mathematical Recreations; October 1998; by Stewart; 2 Page(s)

Playing with Chocolate

Reviews; October 1998; by Tavris, staff editors; 4 Page(s)

Reviews

Commentary: Wonders - Field Guide to the New Biology Lab; October 1998; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)

The guinea pig, still a metaphor for any subject of experiment, is no longer a laboratory fixture.

Commentary: Connections - Does This Take You Back?; October 1998; by Burke; 2 Page(s)

Disease: nostalgia.

Working Knowledge; October 1998; by Boegner; 2 Page(s)

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