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May 1996
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; May 1996; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Right to Die; May 1996; by Horgan; 2 Page(s)
Ethicists debate whether advanced directives
have furthered the cause of death with dignity
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X Marks the Spots; May 1996; by Leutwyler; 2 Page(s)
Researchers find a genetic marker
for an uncommon form of epilepsy
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Field Notes: Plotting the Next Move; May 1996; by Horgan; 1 Page(s)
I am at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, N.Y., talking to four of the six brains behind Deep Blue, perhaps the second-best chess player in the world.
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In Brief; May 1996; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Record Time; Monkey See, Monkey Count; DOD's Toxic Totals; Smoke, Screen; Drafting Ants; A Peek at Pluto; He Said, She Said; Slowing Japan's Fast-Breeder Program; Summer at the South Pole?
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Relatively Expensive; May 1996; by Seife; 1 Page(s)
It is the most famous equation of all time: EL = mc2. What is that "L" doing there?
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Not So Blind, After All; May 1996; by Wallich; 2 Page(s)
Randomized trials - the linchpin
of medicine - may often be rigged
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Anti Gravity: Pork Barrel Science; May 1996; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
Between stints as prime minister,
Winston Churchill retired to a
country farm, where he was fond of
taking walks with his grandson.
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Sowing Where You Reap; May 1996; by Mukerjee; 3 Page(s)
Profits from biodiversity are neither
easy to pinpoint nor to protect
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By the Numbers: Carbon Dioxide Emissions; May 1996; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
Certain gases in the atmosphere allow visible light to
pass through, but they block much of the heat reflected from Earth's surface - in the same fashion as the glass
windows in a greenhouse.
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Electric Smile-Aid; May 1996; by Zorpette; 1 Page(s)
There's a new way
to stave off cavities
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Cyber View; May 1996; by Browning; 1 Page(s)
Television Arrives on the Internet
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Systematic Errors; May 1996; by Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
A new law aims to prevent software
meltdown in federal agencies
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Recently Netted...; May 1996; by Eisenberg; 1 Page(s)
Migrating Metaphors; Licensed to CyberNotarize; Carpet Tunnel Syndrome?
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Advantage: Nature; May 1996; by Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
Could escaped genes
from bioengineered crops give
weeds a crucial boost?
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Make a Muscle; May 1996; by Gibbs; 1 Page(s)
Artificial muscles twice as strong and nearly as fast as human muscle have been constructed by Mo Shahinpoor, an engineer at the University of New Mexico.
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Remote Repair; May 1996; by Yam; 1 Page(s)
Internet technology may allow
equipment to be fixed from afar
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Winging It; May 1996; by Zorpette; 1 Page(s)
From the Red Baron's Fokker to the stealthy, state-of-the-art F-22, fighter aircraft have always sported a tail.
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The Horror of Land Mines; May 1996; by Strada; 6 Page(s)
Land mines kill or maim more than 15,000 people each year. Most victims are innocent civilians. Many are children. Still, mines are planted by the thousands every day
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The Kuiper Belt; May 1996; by Luu, Jewitt; 7 Page(s)
Rather than ending abruptly at the orbit of Pluto, the
outer solar system contains an extended belt of small bodies
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Uncovering New Clues to Cancer Risk; May 1996; by Perera; 7 Page(s)
A growing discipline called molecular epidemiology is attempting
to find early biological signposts for heightened risk of cancer.
The research should enhance prevention of the disease
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Software for Reliable Networks; May 1996; by Birman, van Renesse; 6 Page(s)
Techniques that enable distributed
computing systems to reorganize
themselves can restore operation
when one part crashes
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The Pursuit of Happiness; May 1996; by Myers, Diener; 3 Page(s)
New research uncovers some
anti-intuitive insights into how
many people are happy - and why
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Hanford's Nuclear Wasteland; May 1996; by Zorpette; 10 Page(s)
The U.S. is spending billions to clean up its nuclear weapons complexes.
At one of the most contaminated sites, no one knows how much the project will cost, how long it will take or how much good it will do
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Reviews; May 1996; by Lloyd, Powell; 5 Page(s)
Reviews
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Commentary: Wonders - Planet-tude; May 1996; by Morrison; 2 Page(s)
The "East London Daily Dispatch" enlightens many readers far from its city desk in that busy South African port.
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Commentary: Connections - Highbrow Stuff; May 1996; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
I got one of those junk-mail fliers through the post the other day, urging me to sign up for study-by-mail on the subject of memory improvement.
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