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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Jurassic Mart
Skullduggery and libertarian politics are driving the battles between paleontologists and commercial fossil traders
WENDY MARSTON
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Just Say Nyet!
The partnership with the Russians in space has led to too many broken promises and needless delays
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
FEATURES
Plundered Memories
Can new findings about the genetics of Alzheimer's disease ward off this callous thief of mind and spirit?
ZAVEN S. KHACHATURIAN
Irreversible Differences
Most physicists believe, with Einstein, that "the distinction between past, present and future is an illusion." Not so Ilya Prigogine. Time goes forward, he says, and he can prove it.
TONY ROTHMAN
Unusual Suspects
Fish gotta fib, birds gotta lie. But when animals deceive, do they know what their dupes are thinking?
CYNTHIA MILLS
REVIEWS
Ground Zero
Mathematics can explain the world or shatter it, balance your bank account or reveal vistas of astonishing abstract beauty. But where is it headed, in its increasing complexity, and why does anyone care?
DAVID BERLINSKI
World on a Platter
The short happy life of electronic encyclopedias
BURKHARD BILGER
Books in Brief • Sea Change
PLUS: Digging for dinosaurs; how to make decisions
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Forgotten Lives
PETER G. BROWN
Working Hypotheses • Jobs
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Quanta
Light from sound; occupational hazards of genuflecting monks; a new object in the heavens; the cabinet of Doctor Mütter
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