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July 1997
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; July 1997; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Rights of Passage; July 1997; by Yam; 2 Page(s)
Scientists may be the last credible
advocates of human rights in China
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Twist and Shout; July 1997; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)
Astronomers claim the universe
has a preferred direction
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Moroto Morass; July 1997; by Wong; 2 Page(s)
A fossil ape unexpectedly
resembles modern apes and humans
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In Brief; July 1997; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Galactic Geyser of Antimatter; Forty-Something Fat; Grading the Gender Gap; Fur-ensic Evidence; Is Deep Blue Through?; Making Music and Immunity; It's Just a Movie, Really; Bad News Bugs
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Parrots and Plunder; July 1997; by Zorpette; 3 Page(s)
Are monk parakeets pests?
Ornithologists aren't sure
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By the Numbers: Access to the Internet; July 1997; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
The map shows the number of Internet hosts per 1,000 population, a host being more or less any computer providing access to Internet services.
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Dam Safety; July 1997; by Werner; 2 Page(s)
Does record flooding threaten
the Aswan High Dam?
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Tunnel Visions; July 1997; by Stix; 1 Page(s)
Subsurface conduits
may traverse fjords
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Helping Heartache; July 1997; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Surgeons blast holes through
the heart to relieve chest pain
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The Infinitesimal Gets Smaller; July 1997; by Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
Not so long ago, atoms seemed infinitesimal; even the most powerful microscopes could not quite make them out.
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Mug Machine; July 1997; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)
Software tries to find
something in a face
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Cyber View; July 1997; by Lewis; 1 Page(s)
www.batmobile.car
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China's Buddhist Treasures at Dunhuang; July 1997; by Agnew, Jinshi; 10 Page(s)
Cave temples along the ancient Silk Road document the
cultural and religious transformations of a millennium. Researchers
are striving to preserve these endangered statues and paintings
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Gamma-Ray Bursts; July 1997; by Fishman, Hartmann; 6 Page(s)
New observations
illuminate the most powerful
explosions in the universe
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Xenotransplantation; July 1997; by Lanza, Cooper, Chick; 6 Page(s)
After struggling for decades with a shortage
of donated organs from cadavers, transplant surgeons
may soon have another source to tap
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Strong Fabrics for Fast Sails; July 1997; by Doyle; 8 Page(s)
Composite fabrics first developed for the sails of racing yachts
may soon find use in parachutes and research balloons
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Asbestos Revisited; July 1997; by Alleman, Mossman; 6 Page(s)
Once considered safe enough to use in toothpaste,
this unique substance has intrigued people
for more than 2,000 years
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Global Population and the Nitrogen Cycle; July 1997; by Smil; 6 Page(s)
Feeding humankind now demands so much nitrogen-based fertilizer
that the distribution of nitrogen on the earth
has been changed in dramatic, and sometimes dangerous, ways
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Taking Computers to Task; July 1997; by Gibbs; 8 Page(s)
Coming generations of computers will be more fun and engaging to use. But will they earn their keep in the workplace?
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Reviews; July 1997; by Beardsley, Schneider, Powell; 4 Page(s)
Reviews
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Commentary: Wonders - Bandwidth Galore; July 1997; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)
These days long-haul digital signals travel confined within fiber-optical cables - witness the busy dry-land "backbones of the Internet."
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Commentary: Connections - Cool Stuff; July 1997; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
I was fiddling with the controls of an air-conditioning unit in a hot American hotel room recently and wondering how Celsians (that is, everybody else) manage with the Fahrenheit scale.
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