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COLUMNS
Field Notes • Deer Diary
Hunters have become an endangered species, while deer populations have run amuck
WENDY MARSTON
Anecdotal Evidence • Photo Finish
A thirty-year controversy over the famous Apollo 8 earthrise picture is finally resolved
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
New & Noted • What You Don't Know...
A parable of philandering, vengeance and the stock market
JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • Arresting Evidence
DNA fingerprinting, still hotly contested, can be dead-on accurate. But does a national DNA database threaten privacy more than it does criminals?
RICHARD DAWKINS
FEATURES
Script Doctors
Movie scientists, from evil monsters to the merely insane, from bumbling nerds to stalwart heroes, still inform public perceptions of the real thing
M.C. RIBALOW
On Common Ground • The Allure of Equal Halves
How much of the looking-glass world would reflect our own?
photograph by Rosamond Purcell
text by Stephen Jay Gould
The Virtual Surgeon
Robotics, 3-D imaging and computer simulation portend a sweeping change in surgical practice and education
RICHARD M. SATAVA
REVIEWS
Industrial Light and Magic
A fascination with the machine age powered the brush of the artist J.M.W. Turner
NORMAN WEINSTEIN
Books in Brief • Parental Guidance Suggested
PLUS: Cosmic rays; a tongue-in-cheek history of dentistry
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Private Matters
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • More Jewels, Less Junk
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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