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August 1993
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; August 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Masthead; August 1993; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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Who Is Normal?; August 1993; by John Rennie; 3 Page(s)
Is trying to "fix" a disability
sometimes a mistake?
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But He'd Have to Leave the Cigars Behind; August 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 1 Page(s)
The U.S., as a member of the Pan-American Health Organization, frequently sends medical researchers to other countries to help investigate
and manage disease outbreaks.
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Strange Matters; August 1993; by Russell Ruthen; 1 Page(s)
Can advanced accelerators
initiate runaway reactions?
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Sound Science?; August 1993; by Marguerite Holloway; 1 Page(s)
Researchers still sparring
over effects of Exxon Valdez
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Fast Moves; August 1993; by Corey S. Powell; 3 Page(s)
Instant earthquake analysis
may beat the waves
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Off to an Early Start; August 1993; by John Horgan; 1 Page(s)
Determining when and how life began is maddeningly
difficult.
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Culture Clash; August 1993; by John Horgan; 1 Page(s)
Is mathematics becoming
too much like physics?
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Eliminating Nuclear Warheads; August 1993; by Frank von Hippel, Marvin Miller, Harold Feiveson, Anatoli Diakov and Frans Berkhout; 6 Page(s)
More than 50,000 nuclear weapons may be decommissioned during the next 10 years. Their disposal requires both technical and political innovations
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Faster than Light?; August 1993; by Raymond Y. Chiao, Paul G. Kwiat and Aephraim M. Steinberg; 9 Page(s)
Experiments in quantum optics show that two distant events can influence each other faster than any signal could have traveled between them
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T Cell Anergy; August 1993; by Ronald H. Schwartz; 7 Page(s)
When cells of the immune system "see" antigens in the absence of the right cosignals, they shut themselves down instead of attacking. Future therapies might capitalize
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A Universe of Color; August 1993; by David F. Malin; 6 Page(s)
Color photography continues to be an important
astronomical tool that reveals details of celestial objects not yet captured by modern electronic detectors
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Mastering Chaos; August 1993; by William L. Ditto and Louis M. Pecora; 7 Page(s)
It is now possible to control some systems that behave
chaotically. Engineers can use chaos to stabilize lasers,
electronic circuits and even the hearts of animals
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Diet and Primate Evolution; August 1993; by Katharine Milton; 8 Page(s)
Many characteristics of modern primates, including
our own species, derive from an early ancestor's practice of taking most of its food from the tropical canopy
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The Great Radium Scandal; August 1993; by Roger M. Macklis; 6 Page(s)
William J. A. Bailey grew rich from his radium-laced patent
medicine until it killed a leading socialite. The scandal helped
to usher in modern standards of radioisotope regulation
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Domesticating Cyberspace; August 1993; by Gary Stix; 9 Page(s)
A technophile vice president and the information,
entertainment and communications industries
have discovered the source of next generation
electronic products - it's the network.
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Body English; August 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 3 Page(s)
Controlling computers with twitch and glance
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I'll Trade You a Wallaroo for an Aardvark . . . .; August 1993; by Gary Stix; 1 Page(s)
What do Reggie Jackson, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Ledbeater cockatoo have in common? They have all
been immortalized by the $2-billion-a-year trading card industry.
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Blood Money?; August 1993; by Tim Beardsley; 3 Page(s)
Critics question high pharmaceutical profits
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Clipper Runs Aground; August 1993; by Paul Wallich; 1 Page(s)
Everyone seems to be listening in these days: tabloids regale readers with the cellular telephone intimacies of the British royal family, and more sober articles on the business pages tell how companies - or governments - devote resources to "signals intelligence" for commercial gain.
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Blue Films; August 1993; by W. Wayt Gibbs; 2 Page(s)
Cheap new coatings trap solar energy as color
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A Gem of a Catalyst; August 1993; by Philip Yam; 1 Page(s)
Todorokite (pronounced "toh-doh-ROH-kite") rolls
off the tongue like the name of a gemstone.
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The Amateur Scientist; August 1993; by Joseph Neff and Thomas L. Carroll; 3 Page(s)
Circuits That Get Chaos in Sync
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Book Reviews; August 1993; by Philip Morrison; 3 Page(s)
The vital pump...Weathering change...Voices of the spheres
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