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Abstracts: Websurfing without a monitor. DSL: Broadband by Phone. The Broadest Band
Abstracts: We can rebuild you. Looking inside earth for life on Mars. Fishing for data
Abstracts: Weighing the universe. No Backing Off From the Accelerating Universe. Ages of the oldest clusters and the age of the universe
Abstracts: Weight watchers. Direct-injection revival. High speed on the 7 seas
Abstracts: Well smart. Old king coal. Defining the future
Abstracts: Well tooled. Cab drivers. Fire service
Abstracts: Welsh revival. Tightening the buckle. Telematics: Telematics, or the combination of information and communications technologies, is winning friends in an ever widening series of applications
Abstracts: Were dinos cold-blooded after all? The nose knows. Out of Africa: meat-eating dinosaurs that challenge Tyrannosaurus rex
Abstracts: Wetlands at work. Former farmland restored to wetlands. Storm-water treatment technologies evaluated for urban use
Abstracts: Wetlands reform bill is all wet, say scientists. NIH adds an extra layer of review for sensitive grants. IOM weighs in on microbial threat
Abstracts: Wetlands score at Coors Field. A culvert for Abram Creek. Under cover
Abstracts: Wet line extension reduces VOCs from softwood drying. Pilot study of impulse drying industrial sludge. Release of water and volatile organics from wood drying
Abstracts: What a coincidence! Tales of a neglected number. How fair is monopoly?
Abstracts: What are words worth? Compound vision. Everything with chips
Abstracts: What can be done to stanch the flood of junk e-mail messages? Junk science in the courtroom
Abstracts: What causes the immune system collapse seen in AIDS? AIDS task force sizzles out; a once-promising effort to speed drug development offers an object lesson in the hurdles faced by even the loftiest research commissions
Abstracts: What causes the immune system collapse seen in AIDS? Selling the immune system short. Overhauling AIDS research: views from the community
Abstracts: What cloning means for gene therapy. Some experiments can disquietingly blur the line between species. Cloning and conservation
Abstracts: What did Heisenberg tell Bohr about the bomb? Did Bohr share nuclear secrets? The reluctant father of black holes
Abstracts: What does utility-subsidized energy efficiency really cost? How does the Texaco case affect photocopying by scientists?
Abstracts: What fate for brominated fire retardants? Emissions of ploycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and particulate matter from domestic combustion of selected fuels
Abstracts: What hypersonic airplane? Desert Blast. Bandages for bridges
Abstracts: What hypersonic airplane? Mr. Babbage's wonderful calculating machine. Revealed: stealth demonstrator
Abstracts: What in the world is Wally? On the seas in a tippy needle of a boat. My 1,500-horsepower brake job
Abstracts: What makes a successful outreach program? An outline of the Shell Questacon Science Circus. Outdoor science centers
Abstracts: What makes brain neurons run? Researchers get a sharper image of the human brain. Carbon monoxide: killer to brain messenger in one step
Abstracts: What Mendel wrought. Fragile x syndrome. Mechanisms Mendel never knew
Abstracts: What notice is required for an early finish? Designing and contracting for the disabled - another source of liability
Abstracts: What should engineers think about the SSC? Reengineering the profession. Working together to reshape our world
Abstracts: What's in a name? Various, unrequited. Wuff, wuff
Abstracts: What's new. E-phones connect. Click cliques
Abstracts: What's new. Get moving!
Abstracts: What's next for Hubble. Cleaning up deadly chemical weapons. Next wave of efficient lighting?
Abstracts: What's wrong with new materials? Materials joining. Smart materials
Abstracts: What the Keck? The world's largest telescope quietly transforms astronomy. MACHOS or WIMPS?
Abstracts: What to do about coal. The rise of renewable energy. Defusing the global warming time bomb
Abstracts: What visions in the dark of light. Bigfoot anatomy. A great echelon of birds
Abstracts: What we don't know does hurt us. How scientific illiteracy hobbles society. Science and society
Abstracts: What we don't know. The asymmetry between matter and antimatter: in 1999 new accelerators will start searching for violations in a fundamental symmetry of nature, throwing ope a window to physics beyond the unknown
Abstracts: Wheels of change: advances in automotive technology promise cleaner, more fuel efficient cars. Can U.S. support of research fuel economic gains?
Abstracts: When extinct isn't: Questioning the term after a bird's return. Talking bacteria
Abstracts: When failure is not an option. Evidence-based health policy - lessons from the Global Burden of Disease Study
Abstracts: When good health is good business: the new head of the World Health Organization, Gro Harlem Brundtland, argues that providing good health care can boost the bottom line
Abstracts: When medicine meets literature. The ascent of scent. Aborted thinking
Abstracts: When nutrients turn noxious. In the heat of the night: warmer nights may slowing tropical forest growth and raising carbon dioxide levels
Abstracts: When pollution prevention meets the bottom line. Researchers point to incinerator emissions as a major source of atmospheric lead concentrations
Abstracts: When rigor meets reality. Regulating G protein signaling. Fly sex drive traced to fru gene
Abstracts: When science is sealed by the courts. Sustaining the Amazon. The big nada: inaction may stifle the UNCED agreements
Abstracts: When slide rules ruled. The caiman trade. Trade rules
Abstracts: When the sand comes. Tigers, temples and the Taj Mahal. China's ancestral temples
Abstracts: When the sky is not the limit: in bringing the stars indoors, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson expands the visitor's universe
Abstracts: When the sun disappears and dolphins do back flips. Bring back the beaches. Marine borers are back
Abstracts: When toxics meet metal. The train to the plane. Stabilization to remediation
Abstracts: Where do meteorites come from? A NEAR miss may tell. New source proposed for most common meteorites. Are asteroids flying pieces of rubble?
Abstracts: Where do particulate toxins reside? An improved paradigm for the structure and dynamics of the urban mid-Atlantic aerosol
Abstracts: Where do turtles go? The origin of birds and their flights. The mother of mass extinction
Abstracts: Where fiction became ancient fact. The placebo effect: should doctors be prescribing sugar pills? Where the doctors aren't
Abstracts: Where have all the boys gone? The mysterious decline in male births. The fallout from Cassini
Abstracts: Where in the world: New ways of working are making global economic development difficult to estimate. Winning the peace
Abstracts: Where is mercury deposition coming from?. Potential environmental impacts of future halocarbon emissions. The pros and cons of carbon dioxide dumping
Abstracts: Where science and religion meet. Solar secrets; more data make for more mystery. Executive fix: is the Competitiveness Council overstepping its bounds?
Abstracts: Which came first? The mystery of SIDS: a murder conviction revises questions about infant death. Fermat's MacGuffin
Abstracts: Which elasticity tensors are realizable? Micromechanical modeling of FRCs containing matrix cracks and partially debonded fibers
Abstracts: Whimsical software wins a prize for humanness. Nature's killers help fight pests. The teraflops race (Future Computers: part 1)(includes related information on a supercomputing research and planning, and on super-chip manufacture) (Cover Story)
Abstracts: Whimsical software wins a prize for humanness. Through the glass darkly. Fuel cell update
Abstracts: Whitehead, three firms strike deal. Modified microbe may boost TB vaccine. Dana-Farber death sends a warning to research hospitals
Abstracts: White House calls for mercury workshop. Mercury health standard eased by U.S. agency. EPA to release mercury report, reversing earlier decision
Abstracts: White House, Congress differ on transportation plans. Congress seeks answers to New Orleans levee failures. Corps issues list of deficient levees, develops database
Abstracts: White House proposes design-build regulation. Congress approves new design-build law. Political wind threatens housing standard
Abstracts: White-topping joints stretch out on I-20. Green concerns. Painting the town white - and green
Abstracts: Who are the Europeans? The Y chromosome and the origin of all of us (men). HLA sequence polymorphism and the origin of humans
Abstracts: Who is the Civil Engineering reader? Fathoming the strength of structures. Dampers hold sway
Abstracts: Wholesale computation. Your first $20 free! Who wants privacy?
Abstracts: Who owns digital works: computer networks challenge copyright law, but some proposed cures may be as bad as the disease
Abstracts: Who owns the past? Zeroing in on how hormones affect the immune system. Attacking the causes of "silent" infertility
Abstracts: Who pays? Aerial base station: Trying again: Stratospheric airships for communications. Copper for fiber: Fiber optics into the home, with help from DSL
Abstracts: Whose blood is it, anyway? Breaching the blood-brain barrier. The search for blood substitutes
Abstracts: Whose DNA is it, anyway? Despite anxiety, NIH begins merging neuroscience panels. NIH Clinical Center gets a boost
Abstracts: Who springs for water? Who is the Civil Engineering reader? Denver airport's soft landing
Abstracts: Who were the first Americans? Augmenting discord. The furor over feminist science
Abstracts: Why are some animals so smart? What fuels fat. Restoring America's big, wild animals
Abstracts: Why can't a computer be more like a brain? Persistence pays off in defining history of diffusion. Interferometer maps cosmic microwaves on the cheap
Abstracts: Why enzymes are proficient catalysts: Beyond the Pauling paradigm. Enzymes with molecular tunnels
Abstracts: Why Johnny can't do science and math. Science + math = F. Natural genius
Abstracts: Why some fishes are hotheads. Sex surveys come out of the closet. Animal regulations overturned
Abstracts: Why the y is so weird. Children of the gun. Dwarf galaxies & starbursts
Abstracts: Widening the window: Strategies to buy time in treating ischemic stroke. Transfer troubles
Abstracts: Wide-screen video. Digital recording arrives. Digital cordless phones go further
Abstracts: Wild Dolphin societies. Caring for chimpanzees. Madagascar's Lemurs
Abstracts: Wildland fire. Fire in the interface. The dominion of fire
Abstracts: Wildlife in crisis: Guarding Canada's protected areas. Mating strategies of spiders. Some books say coyotes in eastern Canada are actually coydogs, while others say coydogs don't exist. Who's right?
Abstracts: Wiley drops IQ book after public furor. Tenure turmoil sparks reforms. Furor over Minnesota tenure proposals
Abstracts: Will consumers benefit from new power era? Power in 21st century: progress or gridlock? Getting it right for customers
Abstracts: Will deregulation save the banks? Why do some industries pay better? Having it all
Abstracts: Will Dolly send in the clones? The first mammalian clone, produced from an adult sheep, took the world by storm, but leaves a rash of unanswered scientific questions in her wake
Abstracts: Will Fermilab find its future by looking to the stars? Plugging a cosmic information leak. A leaner, meaner infrared satellite
Abstracts: Will it happen here? Seattle's famed kingdome demolished in two phases. Damage report from Seattle
Abstracts: Will 'Our Stolen Future' be another 'Silent Spring?' Children's book publisher goes "chlorine free."(Harcourt Brace and Co.)
Abstracts: Will plants profit from high CO2? Bringing back the everglades; amid great scientific and political uncertainty, ecosystem managers in Florida are pushing ahead with the boldest - and most expensive - restoration plan in history
Abstracts: Will the Higgs Particle Make An Early Entrance? Holes in the Sky Provide Cosmic Measuring Rod. Headhunters Stalk the Halls of Physics
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