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COLUMNS
Works in Progress • On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Or at least, in the Hubble Deep Field, to the early days of the cosmos
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
ESSAYS & COMMENT
All Wet
The gospel of abstinence and twelve-step, studies show, is leading American alcoholics astray
STANTON PEELE
FEATURES
Unmasking Tradition
A Sudanese anthropologist confronts female "circumcision" and its terrible tenacity
ROGAIA MUSTAFA ABUSHARAF
Ringside Seat
Battered by meteorids and pushed around by moons, Saturn's rings have become one of the solar system's main events. Cassini will bring the action home
GUY C. BROWN
Blood Feud
The tick is locked in an age-old battle with its host's immune system. Can we borrow from its chemical arsenal?
CYNTHIA MILLS
REVIEWS
The Big Flap
In the great debate over bird origins, the dinosaur connection is set to take a dive
LARRY D. MARTIN
Books in Brief • Better Digging Through Chemistry
PLUS: The numbers you're born with; how to switch careers
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Rite of Shame
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Angles in Technology and Science
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Living with the threat of biological terrorism; storm warning for satellites; how TV can really make you sick
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