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COLUMNS
Field Notes • On Standby for the New Ark
If spider monkeys are chosen to ride out the "demographic winter," here is what latter-day Noahs will have to know
WILLIAM ALLEN
Anecdotal Evidence • Keeping Our Words
As languages, like species, face mass extinction, linguists struggle to help Native Americans remember what they've been told for decades to forget
BURKHARD BILGER
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • Demographic Discord
Even as delegates arrive for the decennial UN conference in Cairo, biologists and economists cannot agree about population policy
NATHAN KEYFITZ
FEATURES
Power Plants
Sorting out the frenzied cellular process that leads to the growth of leaves
JOHN E. DALE
On Common Ground • Exotic Interiors
Beneath the skin, life-forms too alien to imagine
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
What Kind of Love Is This?
When memory fades, desire lingers on. Can nursing homes cope with their residents' sexuality?
ATHENA H. MCLEAN
REVIEWS
Women Who Run with Physicists
Breaking into the men's club of physics takes love, grit, determination and a talent for blending in
ANN K. FINKBEINER
Books in Brief • A World That Slipped Away
PLUS: Evolution observed; residential shelters for the mentally ill
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Parachutes and Population
Quanta
Exotic particles and inflationary cosmology; grabbing molecules, one at a time; flywheels that just keep on going; watching the brain play chess
Strange Matter
Apex Tobacco: An Internal Memo
ROZ CHAST
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