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November 2000
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; November 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Robots in the Sky; November 2000; by Stephen Cole; 2 Page(s)
Miniature unmanned planes called aerosondes are ready to fly for science
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Radioactive Wrecks; November 2000; by Mark Alpert; 1 Page(s)
Sunken nuclear subs pose no immediate threat, but they could be long-term ecological time bombs
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Atlas Shrugged; November 2000; by Michael Menduno; 2 Page(s)
When it comes to online road maps, why you can't (always) get there from here
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Hooking up Biologists; November 2000; by Carol Ezzell; 1 Page(s)
Consortia are forming to sort out a common cyberlanguage for life science
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By the Numbers: Voter Turnout; November 2000; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)
Egalitarian democracy made a spectacular American debut in 1828, when Andrew Jackson won the White House by mobilizing workers, small farmers and frontiersmen in unprecedented numbers.
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Desert Fridge; November 2000; by Naomi Lubick; 1 Page(s)
Cooling foods when there?s not a socket around
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News Briefs; November 2000; by Steve Mirsky, Naomi Lubick, Philip Yam, Edward Bell; 3 Page(s)
Universal Soldier; Stifled Recall; Broadcasting Space Warp; Narcolepsy and the Lost Peptide; Medium Rare, Please; Digital Depictions; Once Transgenic Latte, Coming Up
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As We May Live; November 2000; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Computer scientists build a dream house to test their vision of our future
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Special Report: The Future of Digital Entertainment/Introduction; November 2000; by Mark Fischetti; 3 Page(s)
The barriers separating TV, movies, music, video games and the Internet are crumbling. Audiences are getting new creative options. Here is what entertainment could become if the technological and legal hurdles can be cleared.
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Cloning Noah's Ark; November 2000; by Robert P. Lanza, Betsy L. Dresser, Philip Damiani; 6 Page(s)
Biotechnology might offer the best way to keep some endangered species from disappearing from the planet
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The Vasimir Rocket; November 2000; by Franklin R. Chang Diaz; 8 Page(s)
There used to be two types of rocket: powerful but fuel-guzzling, or efficient but weak. Now there is a third option that combines the advantages of both
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AIDS Drugs for Africa; November 2000; by Carol Ezzell; 6 Page(s)
Most of the 35 million people infected with the AIDS virus live on the African continent, where drugs that fight the virus are rare. Will the world let them die?
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The Odd Couple and the Bomb; November 2000; by William Lanouette; 6 Page(s)
Like a story by Victor Hugo as told to Neil Simon, the events leading up to the first controlled nuclear chain reaction involved accidental encounters among larger-than-life figures, especially two who did not exactly get along ? but had to
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Books; November 2000; by Claire Panosian Dunavan, staff editors; 3 Page(s)
Betrayal of Trust argues that the global public health system is dying of neglect. Also, The Editors Recommend
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Connections: Survivals; November 2000; by James Burke; 2 Page(s)
The primitive, the antiquarian, the mathematical, the electrical ? some dramatic conclusions
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Anti-Gravity: Smart Thinking; November 2000; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
Readers of this magazine are obviously highly intelligent, but what other clues make us assume someone is brainy
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