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Great Minds (December 2004)
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Cover; Great Minds; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Unearthing History; Great Minds; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Mary Leakey (originally published October 1994)
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Fighting the Darkness in El Dorado; Great Minds; by Kate Wong; 3 Page(s)
Anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon defends himself against Yanomam¿ charges (originally published March 2001)
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Gombe's Famous Primate; Great Minds; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Jane Goodall (originally published October 1997)
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Paleontology's Indiana Jones; Great Minds; by Kate Wong; 2 Page(s)
From digging to designing, Paul S. Sereno has helped map the evolution of dinosaurs (originally published June 2000)
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Father of Spirit and Opportunity; Great Minds; by David Appell; 2 Page(s)
With the success of twin rovers on the Red Planet, Steven W. Squyres and his team are showing how to conduct robotic missions--and setting the stage for human exploration (originally published October 2004)
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An Ear to the Stars; Great Minds; by Naomi Lubick; 3 Page(s)
Despite long odds, astronomer Jill C. Tarter forges ahead to improve the chances of picking up signs of extraterrestrial intelligence (originally published November 2002)
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When the Sky Is Not the Limit; Great Minds; by Steve Mirsky; 3 Page(s)
In bringing the stars indoors, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson expands the visitor's universe (originally published February 2000)
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Geographer of the Male Genome; Great Minds; by Gary Stix; 2 Page(s)
The notion of the Y sex chomosome as a genetic wasteland still entices biologists. David C. Page has spent a good part of his career knocking down that myth (originally published December 2004)
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Defender of the Plant Kingdom; Great Minds; by Tim Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Botanist Peter H. Raven wants the world to save its plant species. All of them (originally published September 1999)
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The Billionaire Conservationist; Great Minds; by Krista West; 3 Page(s)
Can Ted Turner save threatened species? He is using his private lands and deep pockets to reintroduce animals driven off by development (originally published August 2002)
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Dissent in the Maelstrom; Great Minds; by Daniel Grossman; 2 Page(s)
Maverick meteorologist Richard S. Lindzen keeps right on arguing that human-induced global warming isn't a problem (originally published November 2001)
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Save the Muntjacs; Great Minds; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
And warty pigs, saolas, zebra-striped rabbits--helping to discover and preserve new animals is biologist Alan R. Rabinowitz's game (originally published September 2000)
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Thawing Scott's Legacy; Great Minds; by Sarah Simpson; 2 Page(s)
A pioneer in atmospheric ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal expedition (originally published December 2001)
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Not Just Fun and Games; Great Minds; by Mark Alpert; 3 Page(s)
Best known for inventing the game of Life, John H. Conway is adept at finding the theorems hidden in simple puzzles (originally published April 1999)
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Monstrous Moonshine is True; Great Minds; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 3 Page(s)
Richard Borcherds proved it--and discovered spooky connections between the smallest objects imagined by physics and one of the most complex objects known to mathematics (originally published November 1998)
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Molding the Web; Great Minds; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, says the World Wide Web hasn't nearly reached its potential (originally published December 1997)
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Pinker and the Brain; Great Minds; by Alden M. Hayashi; 2 Page(s)
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker plumbs the evolutionary origins of language and behavior while keeping his detractors at bay (originally published July 1999)
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Flynn's Effect; Great Minds; by Marguerite Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Intelligence scores are rising, James R. Flynn discovered--but he remains very sure we're not getting any smarter (originally published January 1999)
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Why Machines Should Fear; Great Minds; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Once a curmudgeonly champion of "usable" design, cognitive scientist Donald A. Norman argues that future machines will need emotions to be truly dependable (originally published January 2004)
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A Greene Universe; Great Minds; by Alden M. Hayashi; 2 Page(s)
Theoretical physicist Brian Greene has a simple goal--explaining the universe with strings (originally published April 2000)
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Throwing Einstein for a Loop; Great Minds; by Amanda Gefter; 2 Page(s)
Physicist Fotini Markopoulou Kalamara has developed a way to connect relativity with quantum theory - while making sure that cause still precedes effect (originally published December 2002)
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Dissident or Don Quixote?; Great Minds; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 3 Page(s)
Challenging the HIV theory got virologist Peter H. Duesberg all but excommunicated from the scientific orthodoxy. Now he claims that science has got cancer all wrong (originally published August 2001)
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The $13-Billion Man; Great Minds; by Carol Ezzell; 2 Page(s)
Why Thomas R. Cech--the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute--could be the most powerful individual in biomedicine (originally published January 2001)
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Starving Tumors of Their Lifeblood; Great Minds; by Carol Ezzell; 2 Page(s)
No, Judah Folkman probably won't cure cancer in two years. He says he simply hopes to render it a manageable, chronic disease (originally published October 1998)
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Where Science and Religion Meet; Great Minds; by Tim Beardsley; 3 Page(s)
The U.S. head of the human Genome Project, Francis S. Collins, strives to keep his Christianity from interfering with his science and politics (originally published February 1998)
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Terms of Engagement; Great Minds; by Sally Lehrman; 2 Page(s)
Irving Weissman directs a new institute dedicated to the cloning of human embryonic stem cells. Just don't call it cloning (originally published July 2003)
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