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July 1996
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; July 1996; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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In Focus: Waking Up; July 1996; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Finding a purpose for sleep
has been as elusive as rest to an
insomniac, but researchers
are getting much closer
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Pot Luck; July 1996; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)
Linear A, an ancient script,
is unearthed in Turkey
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Mirror, Mirror; July 1996; by Yam; 1 Page(s)
A whiff of supersymmetry
at Fermilab
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In Brief; July 1996; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Vive la Francium; Allergy Relief; Forecast on Venus; Disease-Free Mosquitos; It's a Bird, It's a Plane...; Anatomy Update; Staying Afloat; Crystallization Made Easy; Modeling Life from Clay; Don't Tell...; It's Not Easy Being Green; Neutrinos Weigh in...
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Pink Gold; July 1996; by Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)
The trials and tribulations
of shrimp farming
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Field Notes: Headshrinker Convention; July 1996; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)
The first thing one notices on entering New York City's cavernous Jacob Javits Center, site of the 149th annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, is the Eli Lilly exhibit.
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By the Numbers: The Changing Quality of Life; July 1996; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
These maps show the Physical Quality of Life Index (PQLI) developed by Morris David Morris of Brown University to measure progress among the poorer countries.
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Group Think; July 1996; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)
A previously rejected theory
about natural selection
makes a comeback
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Triassic Bug; July 1996; by Schneider; 1 Page(s)
Ancient insects do not often survive death well enough to be preserved in the geologic record.
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Cyber View; July 1996; by Browning; 1 Page(s)
New Stars for the New Media
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Light Work; July 1996; by Stix; 2 Page(s)
Micromechanics helps to integrate electronics and optical technologies
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Treble Vision; July 1996; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Combining telescopes makes seeing easier
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Panacea Lost?; July 1996; by Wallich; 2 Page(s)
Pity the economist who tries
to market social insights
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Keeping the "Tiger" at Bay; July 1996; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)
With fewer experts and facilities,
the DOE is trying new ways
of preventing nuclear accidents
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Leaf It to Them; July 1996; by Nemecek; 1 Page(s)
It's not quite the handheld medical scanner you've seen on "Star Trek", but simply push a button, and this spectrophotometer can quickly diagnose what's finishing off your foliage.
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Next-Generation Compact Discs; July 1996; by Bell; 5 Page(s)
A novel agreement among competing electronics companies has delivered an innovative plan for compatible "DVD" products - the first are due out this fall
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Blue-Laser CD Technology; July 1996; by Gunshor, Nurmikko; 4 Page(s)
Coaxing semiconductor crystals into lasing blue light is no easy task, but the rewards - among them, greater storage space on optical disks - are well worth the wait
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Sunlight and Skin Cancer; July 1996; by Leffell, Brash; 6 Page(s)
Although most skin cancers appear in older people,
the damage often begins decades earlier, when the
sun's rays mutate a key gene in a single cell
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The Nature of Space and Time; July 1996; by Hawking, Penrose; 6 Page(s)
Two relativists present their distinctive
views on the universe, its evolution
and the impact of quantum theory
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The Hidden World of Surgery; July 1996; by Aguilera-Hellweg; 6 Page(s)
In his finely resolved images of surgery,
a photographer sees clues to who and what we are
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The Mother of Mass Extinctions; July 1996; by Erwin; 7 Page(s)
Disaster struck 250 million years ago, when the worst decimation in the earth's history occurred. Called the end-Permian mass extinction, it marks a fundamental change in the development of life
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Who Owns Digital Works?; July 1996; by Okerson; 5 Page(s)
Computer networks challenge
copyright law, but some proposed cures
may be as bad as the disease
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Exoskeletal Sensors for Walking; July 1996; by Zill, Seyfarth; 5 Page(s)
To move their limbs, cockroaches, crabs and spiders rely on organs
in their exoskeletons that act as strain gauges. Their method of locomotion could facilitate the design of multilegged robots
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Reviews; July 1996; by Small, Powell, Hargittai; 6 Page(s)
Reviews
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Commentary: Wonders - Gutless; July 1996; by Morrison; 2 Page(s)
Decades ago a brilliant physiologist showed a crowd of abiological number crunchers like myself how to model a generalized animal
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Commentary: Connections - Folies de Grandeur; July 1996; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
Sitting here by the Thames at my word-processing machine,I look out on a beautiful Isambard Kingdom
Brunel railway bridge, so I'm constantly reminded of the way 19th-century iron and steel technology produced so many machine-assisted "folies de grandeur".
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