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COLUMNS
On Human Nature • The Price of Propriety
For the Martha Stewarts of the world, life may be so perfect it makes them sick
ROBERT M. SAPOLSKY
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Chutes and Ladders
In an unstable market for new Ph.D.'s, success in science must be redefined to include careers outside the ivory tower
SHEILA TOBIAS, DARYL E. CHUBIN AND KEVIN AYLESWORTH
FEATURES
The Pollination Crisis
The plight of the honey bee and the decline of other pollinators imperils future harvests
STEPHEN L. BUCHMANN AND GARY PAUL NABHAN
Cover Story • Worlds Within Worlds
Delicately disassembling the quantum universe inside the atomic nucleus
TIMOTHY PAUL SMITH
On Common Ground • Preposterous
What has happened to the rhinoceros is as hard to fathom as the beast itself
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Death Wish
All cells come primed for self-destruction. The challenge for medicine is to make them die on cue.
MARTIN C. RAFF
REVIEWS
Bushed
Fieldwork memoirs are a litany of complaints. So why don't anthropologists just stay home?
DAVID BERREBY
Books in Brief • To Avoid All Useless Friction
PLUS: The external chemistry of life; a connoisseur's guide to the calculus
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Kelvin's Injunction
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Dissident Chinese scientists; metallic hydrogen; stellar streamers; a hand-waving treatment for post-traumatic stress?
Strange Matter
Introducing . . . Magneto-Hair
ROZ CHAST
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