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COLUMNS
Anecdotal Evidence • Fallible Instinct
A dose of skepticism about the medicinal "knowledge" of animals
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
ESSAYS & COMMENT
It's Health Care, Stupid!
A forum on the president's proposals for reform
FEATURES
1012 Degrees in the Shade
The primeval fire that once filled the universe has cooled, leaving matter "frozen" in an arbitrary state. Now particle accelerators can recross that high-temperature frontier by "thawing" heavy atomic nuclei.
FRANK WILCZEK
Gear Wars
In ice skating, skiing and ski jumping, the Winter Olympic Games may be won in the laboratory and the wind tunnel
KJELLOVE STORVIK
Faces Are Special
Tweaking the brain's facility for recognizing another person
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Piltdown Unmasked
How the perpetrators of the scientific hoax of the century were exposed, eighty years after their big lie was planted in the ground
PHILLIP V. TOBIAS
REVIEWS
Cover Story • Figures of Speech
The rise and fall and rise of Chomsky's linguistics
DAVID BERREBY
Books in Brief • A Survivor's Chronicle
PLUS: A history of navigation; an affectionate look at bugs
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Picking up the pieces after the cancellation of the SSC; speech recognition by computer; nicotine and cancer; animals that roll
Strange Matter
The Budget Supercollider
ROZ CHAST
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