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July 1999
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; July 1999; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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In Focus: Seeking Common Ground; July 1999; by Stix; 2 Page(s)
Building a new generation of gargantuan
telescopes gets mired in environmental
and native cultural issues
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Make Science, Not War; July 1999; by Musser; 1 Page(s)
For Sarajevo's scientists, peace is
proving as challenging as war
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Discerning Cern; July 1999; by Nemecek; 1 Page(s)
A hard-hat tour of the world's
largest particle accelerator,
under construction
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By the Numbers: Christian Differences; July 1999; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
So many Americans attend church, according to sociologists Roger Finke of Purdue University and Rodney Stark of the University of Washington, because there is a free market in religion, and a free market promotes competition among denominations for new members.
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Death Of A Vaccine?; July 1999; by Ezzell; 1 Page(s)
People with weakened HIV are
getting sick, quelling enthusiasm
for a live AIDS vaccine
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In Brief; July 1999; by Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
Mars Bars; Multilegged Mayhem; Endangered "Homo Sapiens"; Sauroposture; Tuna Temperance; Fleshing Out The Family Tree
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Stem Cells Come Of Age; July 1999; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Cells that can grow into
a range of tissues are initiating
a revolution in biology
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Profile: Pinker and the Brain; July 1999; by Hayashi; 2 Page(s)
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the
evolutionary origins of language and behavior while
keeping his detractors at bay
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Parsing Cells; July 1999; by Stix; 2 Page(s)
Proteomics is an attempt to devise
industrial-scale techniques
to map the identity and activities
of all the proteins in a cell
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Lots In Space; July 1999; by Scott; 3 Page(s)
With a new rocket, Arianespace
hopes to stay on top of the
commercial launch business
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Practical Fractals; July 1999; by Musser; 1 Page(s)
Fractals have become one of the unifying principles of science, but apart from computer graphics, technological applications of these geometric forms have been slow in coming.
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Holey Magic; July 1999; by Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
A "spooky" optical phenomenon
may yield brighter laptops
and faster microchips
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Looking back at Apollo; July 1999; by Staff Editor; 6 Page(s)
On the 30th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing, digital reproductions of the Apollo photographs show the moon as the astonauts saw it
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Cyber View; July 1999; by Grossman; 1 Page(s)
On-Line U.
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Life's Far-Flung Raw Materials; July 1999; by Bernstein, Sandford, Allamandola; 8 Page(s)
Life may owe its start to complex
organic molecules manufactured
in the icy heart of an interstellar cloud
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Genetic Vaccines; July 1999; by Weiner, Kennedy; 8 Page(s)
Vaccines crafted from genetic material
might one day prevent AIDS, malaria
and other devastating infections that
defy current immunization technologies.
They may even help treat cancer
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The Mystery of Nucleon Spin; July 1999; by Rith, Schäfer; 6 Page(s)
A new generation of experiments promises to pin down more of
the still uncertain internal structure of protons and neutrons
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The Earliest Zoos and Gardens; July 1999; by Polinger Foster; 8 Page(s)
More than 4,000 years ago rulers in Egypt and Mesopotamia, builders of pyramids and empires, became the first to embark on another pastime: collecting exotic animals and planting ornamental gardens
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The Future Of Fuel Cells; July 1999; by Staff Editors; 2 Page(s)
The obstacles to building practical fuel cells are
numerous, but continued innovation and skillful
engineering could make them competitive
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The Electrochemical
Engine for Vehicles; July 1999; by Appleby; 6 Page(s)
Fuel cells can power cleaner buses and cars, but key
engineering and economic obstacles will delay
widespread adoption of the technology
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The Power Plant in Your Basement; July 1999; by Lloyd; 6 Page(s)
In the past, stationary fuel cells were megawatt behemoths, designed for the electric utilities. Now they are being shrunk for homes and other modest applications
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Replacing the Battery
in Portable Electronics; July 1999; by Dyer; 6 Page(s)
Batteries are cumbersome and expensive. Miniature fuel cells could supplant them in cellular phones, laptop
computers, camcorders and other consumer products
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Reviews; July 1999; by de Grasse Tyson, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)
Reviews
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Connections: A Few Notes; July 1999; by James Burke; 2 Page(s)
Galieleo encouraged researchers to do something about nothing-as in the vacuum
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