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served specimen of one of the earliest di-
nosaurs ever ... survey of
the number of private companies in the business of small-arms production over the
past four decades shows how the market expanded at the e...
scientific american - 2000 11 - the future of digital entertainment
... trade. The decline
was reinforced by the social unrest of the
late 1960s, which divided the supporters
of civil rights.
Furthermore, the economic crisis of
the 1970s strengthened the hand of the
more ... materials pro-
vide some of the first insight
into the lives of prehistoric
women, children and the eld-
erly
—or, as Soffer describes
them, the silent majo...
scientific american - 2001 06 - the paradox of the sun's hot corona
... absolutely firm
in their convictions. And if you say to either one of them they’re
wrong, then they start tuning you out.” So McNutt tries to make
the 15-year-olds aware of the other’s position ... to one of the most beau-
tiful spectacles in all of nature: a total eclipse of the sun.
The two of us were among them. One of us (Phillips)
watched from Bulgaria as the gla...
scientific american - 1994 04 - the dilemmas of prostate cancer
... each
cycle of the AC Þeld. When the marble
is hopping down the egg tray with the
help of the AC Þeld, augmenting the av-
erage tilt of the egg tray by increasing
the DC voltage does not change the av-
erage ... Kazumi Maki of the Universi-
ty of Southern California and by the late
John Bardeen of the University of Illi-
nois, but it is too early to tell w...
scientific american - 1995 06 - the world's strongest magnets
... that
they were the few Cretaceous survivors.
The foundation of this theory began
to shake in 1981, when fossils of Òop-
posite birdsÓ were unearthed in China
and, then, all over the Northern Hemi-
sphere. ... Final cut, the size of the dress-
ing room, or the hors dÕoeuvres avail-
able for on-set snacking the point of
power in Hollywood is to use it to exer-
cise control....
scientific american - 1995 12 - the puzzle of consciousness
... stunning
movie of our watery planet. The
spacecraft examined the outer
expanses of the earthÕs magnet-
ic Þeld and took the Þrst mea-
surements of the moonÕs far
side since the days of the Apol-
lo program. ... returned to the earth
over the low-gain antenna. Tape-search-
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JAILBARS, slices of images taken of the asteroid...
scientific american - 1996 06 - the space station
... microorganisms.
If the impact of urban agriculture con-
tinues to broaden, the notion of the gar-
den city
the turn -of -the- century dream
of urban centers lined with trees and or-
namental plants
—may ... surprising: they whip
around the planet at up
to 200 meters per second.
Overall, however, data
from the probe’s 57-min-
ute descent did not chal-
lenge the prevailing...
scientific american - 1996 11 - the origins of immunity
... dif-
ferent risk factors may affect the expres-
sion of the disorder,” the group con-
cludes in the Journal of the American
Medical Association.
The lead author of the study, the larg-
est of ... professor of psychology at
the University of Liverpool,
and other academics have
ruffled a few well-groomed
feathers in the staid linguis-
tics community. Their gos-...
scientific american - 1997 06 - the microchip that rewires itself
... traveling the interstate
since the wee hours of the morn-
ing and what they might say
when they arrive at the Capitol
and meet with their elected rep-
resentatives. Most of his audi-
ence probably ... or their distribution. In the
Northeast, with its meadows and for-
ests, they are abundant, but in the Mid-
west, with its vast expanses of mono-
culture crops, they are scarce...
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