Jan/Feb 1993 Table of Contents

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ESSAYS & COMMENT
Travails of the Chief
Killer stress plagues the White House
ROBERT E. GILBERT

Einstein's Dreams
Three fables of time out of joint
ALAN LIGHTMAN

FEATURES
Cover Story • Splice of Life
Genetic therapy comes of age
KENNETH W. CULVER

The Hidden Shore
Enough water could be locked in the earth to fill the oceans ten times over
RAYMOND JEANLOZ

Hand Signals
Right side, left brain and the origin of language
PETER F. MACNEILAGE, MICHAEL G. STUDDERT-KENNEDY AND BJORN LINDBLOM

REVIEWS
This Little Pancreas Went to Market
While the ethics get sorted out, the demand for organ transplants soars 38
TIM APPELO

DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook

Peer Review
Letters from Readers

Quanta
Recent Sightings

Books in Brief • Where the Wildebeests Roamed

OBJECT LESSONS
The Best of Times

Strange Matter
A Year of Living Dangerously

Jan/Feb 1993

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