February 2003
Scientific American Magazine

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Cover; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Table of Contents; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 2 Page(s)

SA Perspectives: No Immunity to Pork; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

A bad law hurts vaccination efforts

How to Contact Us and On the Web; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Letters to the Editors; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 3 Page(s)

50, 100 and 150 Years Ago; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Old Fish; New Cars; Blue Light

Greenhouse Suits; February 2003; by Madhusree Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)

Litigation becomes a tool against global warming

Bad Medicine; February 2003; by Gunjan Sinha; 2 Page(s)

Why data from drug companies may be hard to swallow

Storm before the Calm; February 2003; by Daniel G. Dupont; 2 Page(s)

Can knockout gases really be nonlethal?

T Cell Triumph; February 2003; by Diane Martindale; 2 Page(s)

Immunotherapy may have finally turned a corner

Scaled-Up Superposition; February 2003; by Charles Choi; 2 Page(s)

Supersizing Schrödinger's cat--by a billion times

Nothing but Net; February 2003; by Phil Scott; 1 Page(s)

How not to break the safety barrier

News Scan Briefs; February 2003; by Tariq Malik, Sarah Graham, Sarah Simpson, Philip Yam; 2 Page(s)

Taking the Heat; Water or Not?; Fire and Ice; The Olmec's Write Stuff; Regenerating the Heart; Data Points: Oil in Water; Brief Points

By the Numbers: Religion in America; February 2003; by Rodger Doyle; 1 Page(s)

Church attendance has dipped, but faith remains strong

Staking Claims: Take a Number; February 2003; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)

Toilet reservations afford a glimpse of the world of business-method patents

Innovations: Reverse-Engineering Clinical Biology; February 2003; by Gary Stix; 3 Page(s)

A peacetime dividend yields drug trials on virtual patients

Skeptic: Psychic Drift; February 2003; by Michael Shermer; 1 Page(s)

Why most scientists do not believe in ESP and psi phenomena

Profile: The Reality of Race; February 2003; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)

There's hardly any difference in the DNA of human races. That doesn't mean, argues sociologist Troy Duster, that genomics research can ignore the concept

Magnetars; February 2003; by Chryssa Kouveliotou, Robert C. Duncan and Christopher Thompson; 8 Page(s)

Some stars are magnetized so intensely that they emit huge bursts of magnetic energy and alter the very nature of the quantum vacuum

Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide; February 2003; by Carol Ezzell; 8 Page(s)

New research addresses the wrenching question left when someone ends his or her own life

Evolving Inventions; February 2003; by John R. Koza, Martin A. Keane and Matthew J. Streeter; 8 Page(s)

Computer programs that function via Darwinian evolution are creating inventions that are novel and useful enough to be patented

Explaining Frog Deformities; February 2003; by Andrew R. Blaustein and Pieter T. J. Johnson; 6 Page(s)

An eight-year investigation into the cause of a shocking increase in deformed amphibians has sorted out the roles of three prime suspects

Satellite-Guided Munitions; February 2003; by Michael Puttri; 8 Page(s)

Highly accurate yet affordable strike weapons, proved in Afghanistan, are the latest upgrades to America's arsenal

Drink to Your Health?; February 2003; by Arthur L. Klatsky; 8 Page(s)

Three decades of research shows that drinking small to moderate amounts of alcohol has cardiovascular benefits. A thorny issue for physicians is whether to recommend drinking to some patients

Working Knowledge: Carbon Copy; February 2003; by Mark Fischetti; 2 Page(s)

Synthetic diamonds

Technicalities: Robots That Suck; February 2003; by George Musser; 3 Page(s)

Have they finally come out with a robot for the rest of us?

Reviews: The Next Big Thing?; February 2003; by Joseph F. Traub; 2 Page(s)

A Shortcut through Time is an essential guide to the emergence of quantum computing. Also, The Editors Recommend

Puzzling Adventures: Five Trusty Flares; February 2003; by Dennis E. Shasha; 1 Page(s)

Choosing trustworthy flares

Anti Gravity: Sheer Lunacy; February 2003; by Steve Mirsky; 1 Page(s)

Which is nuttier: denying we ever went to the moon or trying to convince the true nonbelievers?

Ask the Experts; February 2003; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)

Why do some people get more cavities than others do? Why are snowflakes symmetrical?

Fuzzy Logic; February 2003; by Roz Chast; 1 Page(s)

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