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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Martin's Sense of Ice
Probing the pack ice that rings Antarctica, Martin Jeffries finds a mesmerizing dynamism and abundant evidence of life
JANE E. STEVENS
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Suffering Fools
Can a simple redefinition change attitudes toward mental retardation? Or does a fate worse than labeling still await those at the bottom of the bell curve?
JAMES W. TRENT JR.
FEATURES
Cold Eyewitness to the Bomb
A first-person account of the testing, dropping and aftermath of the first atomic bombs
ROBERT SERBER, WITH ROBERT P. CREASE
Polio Redux
Decades after the frightening epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s, some polio survivors are haunted by a troubling new affliction: post-polio syndrome
MARINOS C. DALAKAS, HARRY BARTFELD AND LEONARD T. KURLAND
On Common Ground • Double Entendre
How else to grow, than by addition or differentiation?
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
The Most Dangerous Wave
Seductive, foreboding and tumultuous, tsunamis can now be forecast shortly before they strike. But will people heed a warning?
GERARD FRYER
REVIEWS
Cover Story • Toward a Science of Desire
In an era of gender jitters, it's time to put biology back into sex
DAVID W. MURRAY
Books in Brief • Free-Speech Movement
PLUS: The life of Marie Curie; notes from a science salon
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Working Hypotheses • Taking Stock
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Teaching clogged arteries to grow their own bypasses; telescopes on the moon; the sperm as nose; genetic engineering for the laundry
Strange Matter
How to Dispose of Radioactive Waste
ROZ CHAST
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