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March 1998
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; March 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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In Focus: Digital Dilemma; March 1998; by Eisenberg; 2 Page(s)
The upcoming digital format for television lends itself
to computer use, but disagreements about transmission
standards could affect the melding of the two.
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Glow in the Dark; March 1998; by Musser; 1 Page(s)
A second cosmic background
radiation permeates the sky
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Unsound Reasoning; March 1998; by Harby; 2 Page(s)
Are wind musicians loving
tropical woods to death?
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In Brief; March 1998; by Leutwyler; 3 Page(s)
Iron Tooth; E-Test for Eyes; Strange Star; Bypassing Bypass Surgery; B is for Banana; Mmmm....Steak; Universal Expansion; Reducing Roadkill; Prescribing for Dollars
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Anti Gravity: Urine the Money; March 1998; by Mirsky; 1 Page(s)
Time was that the only consequence of drugs in urine was the confiscation of Olympic metals.
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Catching the Rays; March 1998; by Beardsley; 2 Page(s)
Researchers get a photosynthetic
process in artificial cells
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Profile: Undressing the Emperor; March 1998; by Mukerjee; 2 Page(s)
Physicist and Social Text prankster Alan Sokal fires
another salvo at thinkers in the humanities
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Closing the Book; March 1998; by Stix; 2 Page(s)
Are power-line fields a dead issue?
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Composite Sketch; March 1998; by Scott; 2 Page(s)
Were composites to blame
for recent aircraft accidents?
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Scene of the Crime; March 1998; by Goodman; 2 Page(s)
High-tech ways to see
and collect evidence
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Cyber View; March 1998; by Grossman; 1 Page(s)
Downloading as a Crime
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The Bose-Einstein Condensate; March 1998; by Cornell, Wieman; 6 Page(s)
Three years ago in a Colorado laboratory, scientists
realized a long-standing dream, bringing the quantum
world closer to the one of everyday experience
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The Challenge of Antibiotic Resistance; March 1998; by Levy; 8 Page(s)
Certain bacterial infections now defy all antibiotics. The resistance problem may be reversible, but only if society begins to consider how the drugs affect "good" bacteria as well as "bad"
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Nanolasers; March 1998; by Gourley; 6 Page(s)
Semiconductor lasers have shrunk to dimensions even smaller
than the wavelength of the light they emit. In that realm, quantum
behavior takes over, enabling more efficient and faster devices
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Animating Human Motion; March 1998; by Hodgins; 6 Page(s)
Computer animation is becoming increasingly
lifelike. Using simulation, a technique based on
the laws of physics, researchers have created
virtual humans who run, dive, bicycle and vault
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The Caiman Trade; March 1998; by Brazaitis, Watanabe, Amato; 7 Page(s)
The contraband trade in caiman skins shows how
"sustainable utilization" of endangered species fails to sustain them
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Preventing the Next Oil Crunch; March 1998; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
Enough oil remains in the earth to fill the reservoir
behind Hoover Dam four times over-and that's
just counting the fraction of buried crude that is
relatively easy to recover and refine.
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The End of Cheap Oil; March 1998; by Campbell, Laherrere; 6 Page(s)
Global production of conventional oil will begin to decline
sooner than most people think, probably within 10 years
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Mining for Oil; March 1998; by George; 2 Page(s)
More oil is trapped in Canadian sands
than Saudi Arabia holds in its reserves.
The technology now exists to exploit this vast resource profitably
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Oil Production in the 21st Century; March 1998; by Anderson; 6 Page(s)
Recent innovations in underground imaging, steerable drilling and
deepwater oil production could recover more of what lies below
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Liquid Fuels from Natural Gas; March 1998; by Fouda; 4 Page(s)
Natural gas is cleaner and more plentiful than oil.
New ways to convert it to liquid form may soon make it
just as cheap and convenient to use in vehicles
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Reviews; March 1998; by Johanson; 2 Page(s)
Reviews
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Commentary : Wonders - Painters' Atoms; March 1998; by Morrison, Morrison; 2 Page(s)
Just west of New York City's Central Park, the great American Museum of Natural History prepares to move one of its finest mineral specimens.
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Commentary: Connections - Turkish Delight; March 1998; by Burke; 3 Page(s)
I was watching TV one chilly evening
recently and thinking about sun, sand and sea when suddenly on the screen there was an ad extolling
the tourist and cultural attractions of
one of my favorite holiday spots: Turkey.
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