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June 1998
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; June 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Lupus in Limbo; June 1998; by McKinsey; 1 Page(s)
A special designation leaves
open legal challenges
to the reintroduction of wolves
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Mesozoic Mystery Tour; June 1998; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)
The annual horseshoe crab
procession, as seen from Brooklyn
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In Brief; June 1998; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Basmati Battle; The Man on Mars; Help for Arthritis; Dinosaur Innards; The Cost of Time Travel; The Big One?; Ancient Cosmology; Reforming Sex Offenders
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The Blight is Back; June 1998; by Nelson; 2 Page(s)
The fungus that caused
the Irish potato famine
returns with a vengeance
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By the Numbers: U.S. Wetlands; June 1998; by Doyle; 2 Page(s)
Swamps, marshes, bogs and similar
watery tracts have long been
thought of as dismal, unhealthy places
that should be removed in the name of
progress.
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The Prevention Pill; June 1998; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Tamoxifen cuts the risk
of breast cancer, but a newer
drug may be better yet
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Profile: Where the Bodies Lie; June 1998; by Stix; 2 Page(s)
To industry's chagrin, epidemiologist Joel Schwartz has argued that particulates in the air shorten human life-his research has helped set tougher air-quality standards
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Star Warned; June 1998; by Dupont; 1 Page(s)
Missile defense remains a shaky
proposition, $50 billion later
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Running on MMT?; June 1998; by McKinsey; 1 Page(s)
The debate on the health effects
of a gasoline additive rages on
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Confidentially Yours; June 1998; by Eisenberg; 2 Page(s)
A novel security scheme sidesteps
U.S. data encryption regulations
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Eye in the Sky; June 1998; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Politicians strive tirelessly to find what George Bush, famously but inarticulately, called the "vision thing."
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Cyber View; June 1998; by Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
The Web Learns to Read
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The Neurobiology of Depression; June 1998; by Nemeroff; 8 Page(s)
The search for biological underpinnings of depression
is intensifying. Emerging findings promise to yield better therapies
for a disorder that too often proves fatal
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A New Look at Quasars; June 1998; by Disney; 6 Page(s)
Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
may reveal the nature and origin of quasars,
the mysterious powerhouses of the cosmos
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Quantum Computing with Molecules; June 1998; by Gershenfeld, Chuang; 6 Page(s)
By taking advantage of nuclear
magnetic resonance, scientists can
coax the molecules in some
ordinary liquids to serve
as an extraordinary type
of computer
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Gravity Gradiometry; June 1998; by Bell; 6 Page(s)
A formerly classified technique used to navigate
ballistic-missile submarines now helps geologists search for resources hidden underground
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Alcohol in the Western World; June 1998; by Vallee; 6 Page(s)
The role of alcohol in Western civilization has changed dramatically during this millennium. Our current medical interpretation of alcohol as primarily an agent of disease comes after a more complex historical relationship
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Defibrillation: The Spark of Life; June 1998; by Eisenberg; 6 Page(s)
In the 50 years since doctors first used electricity
to restart the human heart, we have learned much
about defibrillators and little about fibrillation
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Reviews; June 1998; by May; 2 Page(s)
Review
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Commentary: Wonders - Where Fiction Became Ancient Fact; June 1998; by Morrison; 2 Page(s)
"A lank sunburnt person in tweeds with a yellow-brown hatchet face and one faded blue eye," the explorer
Gordon-Nasmyth appeared before London tycoon Ponderevo, to tempt him into a faintly illegal venture.
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Commentary: Connections - Scribble, Scribble; June 1998; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
One of the real pains about the kind of historical research I get involved with is that when you go to primary sources, much of the time you have to read somebody's scribble if he or she lived back before the typewriter was invented.
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