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November 1994
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; November 1994; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Masthead; November 1994; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Global Aid Wars; November 1994; by Mukerjee; 1 Page(s)
Poverty, it seems, is not foremost among the criteria by which wealthy nations choose to disburse their aid.
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Sex, Death and Sugar; November 1994; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)
Researchers try to "grow"
societies on a computer
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Brain Storm; November 1994; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)
Controlling chaos could
help treat epilepsy
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Microquasars; November 1994; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)
Giant blobs fly faster than light
(sort of) in our own Milky Way
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A Nova Burns Out; November 1994; by Mukerjee; 1 Page(s)
A premature death poses
questions for astronomers
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Branching Out; November 1994; by Yam; 2 Page(s)
Rivers suggest a new feature
of self-organized criticality
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Some Like It Hot - and Cold; November 1994; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
An epically vast analysis of plant diversity at 94 locations scattered across the globe has produced
answers to a long-standing biological riddle. The question is what controls the number of species in a region.
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Cerebrospinal Meningitis Epidemics; November 1994; by Moore, Broome; 8 Page(s)
A debilitating and often deadly disease, meningitis remains
common in many developing countries. New insights may
soon enable us to predict and control outbreaks
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The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe; November 1994; by Linde; 8 Page(s)
Recent versions of the inflationary scenario
describe the universe as a self-generating fractal
that sprouts other inflationary universes
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The Genetics of Flower Development; November 1994; by Meyerowitz; 8 Page(s)
Flower cells learn which organs to become from genes that convey positional information. A model based on just half a dozen such genes can predict how mutations will affect floral structure
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Sci Pixs: Escher's Metaphors; November 1994; by Schattschneider; 6 Page(s)
The prints and drawings of M.C. Escher
give expression to abstract concepts
of mathematics and science
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Secure Distributed Computing; November 1994; by Schiller; 5 Page(s)
Networks and computer security often do not go well together, but the developers of the Athena system have yet to see their protocols fail
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Why Children Talk to Themselves; November 1994; by Berk; 6 Page(s)
Although children are often rebuked
for talking to themselves out loud, doing so helps
them control their behavior and master new skills
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Resolving Zeno's Paradoxes; November 1994; by McLaughlin; 6 Page(s)
For millennia, mathematicians and philosophers have tried to refute Zeno's paradoxes, a set of riddles suggesting that motion is inherently impossible. At last, a solution has been found
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Big-Time Biology; November 1994; by Beardsley; 9 Page(s)
Molecular biology is - not so quietly - evolving from a science into an industry. Can it survive the transformation?
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A New View for Surgeons; November 1994; by Tim Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Most people have no use for infrared night-vision goggles or a laser-targeting system, which is why finding a fit between defense know-how and the civilian world is often difficult.
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Productivity Lost; November 1994; by Leutwyler; 2 Page(s)
Have more computers
meant less efficiency?
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Pricing Internet; November 1994; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Tolls may prevent traffic jams
on the data superhighway
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Ounce of Prevention; November 1994; by Gibbs; 3 Page(s)
Cleaner chemicals pay off, but industry is slow to invest
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Bettering Batteries; November 1994; by Nemecek; 1 Page(s)
Lithium cells are becoming safer and less weighty
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Essay; November 1994; by Eisenberg; 1 Page(s)
When Michael Faraday needed new and fitting terms for his discoveries in electrochemistry, he consulted William Whewell, professor of moral philosophy at the University of Cambridge.
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