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COLUMNS
Physica • Desperately Seeking SUSY
The beguiling prospect of supersymmetry could guide physicists to a unified theory of matter
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
Field Notes • Getting Through the Sleep Gate
Make a better sleeping pill and the world will beat a path to your door. So why hasn't it been done?
ANN K. FINKBEINER
FEATURES
Cool Operators
As the last legal supplies of Freon run dry, smugglers are poised to meet demand. Pity the ozone layer
TOMAS KELLNER
Blood Ties
A family of molecules with an unsavory reputation could aid victims of conditions as diverse as heart disease, malaria and cancer
NICHOLAS J. LANE
Clockers
With a system more complicated than any Swiss watch, fiddler crabs time their tunes to the tides
JOHN D. PALMER
REVIEWS
Cover Story • Odd Numbers
Mathematical genius is rare enough. Cloaked in madness, or wrapped in eccentricity, it's the stuff legends are made of
BRIAN HAYES
Circuitous Route
Travel to the sticks at MHz 66
PETER G. BROWN
Books in Brief • Prisoners of Sex
PLUS: A bible for science-gear freaks; all about the hand
LAURENCE A. MARSHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
"No Illegal Thinking"
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • See for Yourself
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Blazing satellite; molasses flows, glass doesnŐt; fingerprinting Staphylococcus; aggression and sports; new light-sensitive pigments; physics Olympiad; code breakers triumph
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