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May 2000
Scientific American Magazine
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Cover; May 2000; by Staff Editor; 1 Page(s)
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All Doped Up - and Going for the Gold; May 2000; by Zorpette; 2 Page(s)
Miscues by the International Olympic Committee frustrate scientists developing tests for the performance-enhancing drugs erythropoietin and human growth hormone
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What's the Matter?; May 2000; by Musser; 1 Page(s)
The prevailing theory for the universe's "missing mass" stumbles
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For the Bees; May 2000; by Simpson; 1 Page(s)
Glowing paint may highlight the forces that make insects fly
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Three-Star Performance; May 2000; by Collins; 1 Page(s)
Tomography from the ground could outdo the Hubble and its successors
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A New Rex; May 2000; by Niiler; 1 Page(s)
The biggest meat eater of them all bolsters the theory of pack hunting
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Physician, Heal Thyself; May 2000; by Alpert; 2 Page(s)
Disagreement swirls around a plan to prevent errors in hospitals
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By the Numbers: Productivity; May 2000; by Doyle; 1 Page(s)
For the first time since the 1960s, U.S. productivity has been growing at an annual rate above 2.5 percent.
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News Briefs; May 2000; by Nemecek, Yam, Martindale, Wong; 2 Page(s)
Formula for Intelligence?; Jam Session; From Power Lines to Pantyhose; Axes to Grind; Yeah, You've Got Mail; Lending a Helping Leg
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Wired for Speed; May 2000; by Pescovitz; 2 Page(s)
As chips shrink, researchers look to optical and radio-frequency interconnects
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Chilly Crystals; May 2000; by Diane Martindale; 1 Page(s)
Thermoelectrics could double computer speeds
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Cyber View; May 2000; by Grossman; 2 Page(s)
DVDs: Cease and DeCSS?
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The Small Planets; May 2000; by Asphaug; 6 Page(s)
Asteroids have become notorious as celestial menaces but are best appreciated in a positive light, as surreal worlds bearing testimony to the origin of the planets
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Special Industry Report: Avoiding A Data Crunch; May 2000; by Toigo, side bar by Hayashi; 13 Page(s)
The technology of computer hard drives is fast approaching a physical barrier imposed by the superparamagnetic effect. Overcoming it will require tricky innovations
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Coping with Crowding; May 2000; by de Waal, Aureli, Judge; 6 Page(s)
A persistent and popular view holds that high population density inevitably leads to violence. This myth, which is based on rat research, applies neither to us nor to other primates
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Making Metallic Hydrogen; May 2000; by Nellis; 7 Page(s)
By re-creating extreme conditions like those in Jupiter's core, physicists have at long last turned hydrogen into a metal
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Working Knowledge; May 2000; by Holloway; 2 Page(s)
Fill 'er up: How the gas pump works.
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Care for a Dying Continent; May 2000; by Ezzell; 10 Page(s)
In Zimbabwe - where AIDS is prematurely killing a generation of adults - counselors and researchers struggle against social customs, viral resourcefulness and despair
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Books; May 2000; by Dipietro, Staff Editors; 3 Page(s)
"Taboo" dares to examine the prickly scientific questions about why black athletes fare so well. Also, The Editors Recommend.
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Wonders: Netting the Deep Sky; May 2000; by Morrison, Morrison; 3 Page(s)
How astronomers fix the stars with amazingly fine accuracy, using units from the Babylonians
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Connections: What a Nerve; May 2000; by Burke; 2 Page(s)
From Beethoven and Dickens to the chemistry of urine to "siderism" - not all science ends with a Nobel
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