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COLUMNS
Physica • The Quantum Eraser
The quantons of the microworld need not be waves or particles; they can be a little bit of each
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Requiem for an Overachiever
Inspired guesswork, a forty-year-old manuscript and a little-known creature that struggles upstream in the hindgut of a termite may point to the origins of all nucleated cells
LYNN MARGULIS AND MICHAEL F. DOLAN
FEATURES
Swimming Against the Current
The ubiquitous Furby and other interactive playthings offer a window into the digital environment of the near future, dense with intelligent machines
MARK PESCE
A Mind Overflowing
From the Codex Leicester, Leonardo's musings on water
THOMAS D. DILLEHAY
The Battle of Monte Verde
The 2000 Olympic Games will test the mettle of every competitor. But are the bounds of human athletic performance anywhere in sight?
GUY C. BROWN
The Deadliest Virus
Almost invariably fatal, able to hide for years in the deepest recesses of the body, rabies is finding new victims among wild animals and in a few unsuspecting people
LEONARDO DA VINCI
REVIEWS
Cover Story • Appraising Grace
What evolutionary good is God?
DANIEL C. DENNETT
Books in Brief • Stream of Consciousness
PLUS: Hazing young doctors; kinetosplatics
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Private Matters
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Impossible
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Black holes: still no exit; watching little memories being born; feel the noise; a gene for asymmetry
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