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COLUMNS
Studies from Life • The Once and Future King
With his own research institute, exciting new findings and all charges dropped, Robert Gallo renews his quest for an AIDS cure
ELAIN RICHMAN
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story · Beyond the Pail
How a small-time dairy farmer inspired a crusade that threatens to breach the wall between conventional and 'alternative' medicine
BURKHARD BILGER
Special 35th Anniversary Pullout Section
A Billion Seconds of The Sciences
GUY C. BROWN
FEATURES
Freeze Frame
Every snow crystal is a snapshot of the atmosphere it passed through. But the effect of the crystals on global climate is just starting to come into focus.
JOHN HALLETT
Vin Extraordinaire
Archaeochemists sniff out the oldest wine in the world
PATRICK E. MCGOVERN
On Common Ground • Big Birds
If you think the small fellows of the forest are prototypical, think again
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
REVIEWS
Perverse Logic
Well-intentioned efforts to uncover the biological roots of homosexuality may only lead to new forms of prejudice
PHILIP KITCHER
Books in Brief • A Line in the Ether
PLUS: The myth of the suidical lemming; prehistoric sex
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • The Power to Make the Stuff
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Tagging the instruments of terror; is technology ruining tennis?
Strange Matter
Colonizing Mars: Pro or Con?
ROZ CHAST
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