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September 2000
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; September 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Gully Gee Whiz; September 2000; by George Musser; 2 Page(s)
Even as you read this, water might be flowing on Mars
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Beyond the First Draft; September 2000; by Tabitha M. Powledge; 2 Page(s)
Making the genome data useful may depend on the public project Ensembl
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Worrying About Wireless; September 2000; by Mark Alpert; 2 Page(s)
Researchers are still unsure whether cellular phones are safe
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Awash in Oil; September 2000; by Eric Niiler; 1 Page(s)
There's plenty of cheap oil, says the U.S. Geological Survey
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Drinking without Harm; September 2000; by Kimberly Masibay; 1 Page(s)
Arsenic poisoning or deadly diarrhea? Bangladesh may no longer have to choose
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Unlimited Light; September 2000; by David Appell; 2 Page(s)
Researchers make pulses that travel faster than light - sort of
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By the Numbers: Hard Times in the Delta; September 2000; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)
The Mississippi Delta is perhaps the most fertile place on the earth, yet the people there are among the poorest in the country
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News Briefs; September 2000; by Rebecca Lipsitz, Philip Yam, Graham P. Collins, Sarah Simpson; 2 Page(s)
A Gripping Start; Got Statins?; Down with Dino Birds?; Not Slowing with Age; No Fun in the Sun; Miss-ile Defense; What's That Pinging in My Ear?
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Profile: Save the Muntjacs; September 2000; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
And warty pigs, saolas, zebra-striped rabbits--helping to discover and preserve new animals is biologist Alan R. Rabinowitz's game
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Supersized; September 2000; by Phil Scott; 2 Page(s)
Airbus commits to building the world's biggest commercial jumbo jet
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Sonic Bust; September 2000; by Phil Scott; 1 Page(s)
Don't hold your breath for Mach 2 transport
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Muscle, Genes and Athletic Performance; September 2000; by Jesper L. Anderson, Peter Schjerling, Bengt Saltin; 8 Page(s)
The cellular biology of muscle helps to explain why a particular athlete wins and suggests what future athletes might do to better their odds
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Searching for Shadows of Other Earths; September 2000; by Laurance R. Doyle, Hans-Jorg Deeg, Timothy M. Brown, side bar by Ray Jayawardhana; 8 Page(s)
Astronomers have found dozens of giant planets beyond our solar system, but they haven't been capable of bagging an Earth - until now
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Edible Vaccines; September 2000; by William H.R. Langridge, side bar by Ricki Rusting; 6 Page(s)
One day children may get immunized by munching on foods instead of enduring shots. More important, food vaccines might save millions who now die for lack of access to traditional inoculants
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Ultrashort-Pulse Lasers: Big Payoffs in a Flash; September 2000; by John-Mark Hopkins, Wilson Sibbett, side bar by Graham P. Collins; 8 Page(s)
The briefest man-made events, pulses of laser light lasting millionths of a nanosecond, can be used for delicate eye surgery, high-bandwidth communications and stop-motion studies of molecules reacting
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Who Were the First Americans?; September 2000; by Sasha Nemecek; 8 Page(s)
If your answer was fur-clad mammoth hunters, guess again. The first people to settle the New World may have been fisherfolk and basket weavers
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The Plan to Save Fallingwater; September 2000; by Robert Silman; 8 Page(s)
This breathtaking house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was in danger of collapse until an engineering firm found a way to stop it from falling down
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Books; September 2000; by Chet Raymo, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)
Was philosopher Thomas Kuhn's view of science radical or just realistic? Also, The Editors Recommend
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Wonders: From Prototools to Language; September 2000; by Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison; 2 Page(s)
Technology is by no means a recent invention. Tracing its origins back through our prehistoric ancestry
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Connections: The Last Word; September 2000; by James Burke; 2 Page(s)
An encyclopedic look at wordsmiths, dirty old men, rock hounds, ETs and the visitor's London
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Anti Gravity: Name Recognition; September 2000; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
What's in a name? Would my Aunt Rose have been as sweet had she been my Aunt Petunia?
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