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COLUMNS
Field Notes • An Accommodating Comet
This spring's night visitor could be bright enough to shine through the city lights
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
Portfolio • Coffee Mates
An artist and a mathematician share a "ready-made" brew
RHONDA ROLAND SHEARER
FEATURES
The Body Electric
A hundred years ago English and German physicists mwere racing to identify the mysterious "cathode rays" that caused evacuated tubes to glow. Then the Englishman J.J. Thomson made an epochal discovery.
SAMUEL DEVONS
HUE & CRY • THE PUZZLE OF RACE
Studies from Life • The Last Black Classicist
The world's leading authority on race in antiquity, Frank M. Snowden Jr. insists the ancient Egyptians weren't black. Does that make him a traitor to his race?
BURKHARD BILGER
Essays & Comment • Bred In The Bone?
For all their claims about the usefulness of race, physicians and forensic experts leave a trail of misdiagnoses and misidentifications in their wake.
ALAN H. GOODMAN
Features • Continental Divides
Had the early peoples of Africa and Australia inhabited a landscape more like Eurasia, their descendants might rule a superpower today.
JARED DIAMOND
Reviews • Primary Colors
Dreams of a color-blind society always begin with children. But what if children are hard-wired to group people by race?
Guy C. Brown
REVIEWS
The Young and the Restless
PLUS: African fish story; steady state versus big bang.
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
Books in Brief • Shelf Life
PLUS: Finding mushroom delicacies; creating new materials
LAURENCE A. MARSHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Power Bars
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Stretching for the Future of Science
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Butterfly evolution; bigger ain't necessarily better; under the ice on Jupiter's moon Europa; chocolate and marijuana
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