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COLUMNS
Studies from Life • Mathemagician
Presenting the legenday John Horton conway: trickster, roup theorist, investor of the game of life
CHARLES SEIFE
Field Notes • What the Woods Won't Wispter
On Guam, since the early 1960s, a mysterious pertilence has wiped out all the forest birds. Now the same scourge threatens Hawaii.
STUART PIMM
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Whiter Doctors? Whence New Drugs?
Do heroic mesures for the current health care system jeopardize its long-term prognosis?
FEATURES
Cover Story • Harder Than Diamonds
To test a quantum-mechanical theory of solids, the atuhor and his associates designed what may be the hardest substance in the world
MARVIN L. COHEN
Pop! Pow! Smash!
In July a string of comets will strike the back side of Jupiter. Some could crash with the xplorisve force of a million tons of TNT.
DAVID H. LEVY
On Common Ground • Scales of Destruction
No justice, only fair chance, attends the catastrophes that clear the way for new life
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Fleshing Out Obesity
Fatness is epidemic in America. Successful intervention will depend ona a better understanding of its genetics.
DAVID B. ALLISON AND F. XAVIER PI-SUNYER
REVIEWS
Outlaws in Cyberspace
How hackers could break into your computer -- and you wouldn't even know it.
ED KROL
Books in Brief • Modern Time
PLUS: The burdens of chronic stress; how to get ahead in science
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Swords, microchips and global science
Quanta
Science in the former Soviet Union; dissident chemist freed; originals of gossip, three planets around a neutron star; jealousy in fishes
FOCUS
Academy Members' Supplement
Strange Matter
Fuzzy Logic Cooking
ROZ CHAST
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