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COLUMNS
Anecdotal Evidence • Unnatural Acts
From the wheel and axle to the thermal-expansion engine, the creations of human engineers put the lie to the credo that only nature can invent something new
HANS STEVEN VOGEL
Field Notes • The Fortune Teller
Will the secrets of genetic destiny bring comfort or only more sorrow to a remote land ravaged by violence?
KENNETH S. KOSIK
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • Gorilla Warfare
The fate of Africa's rarest apes hinges on battles over their territory as well as their taxonomy
LOV K. GROVER
FEATURES
Quantum Computing
How the weird logic of the subatomic world could make it possible for machines to calculate millions of times faster than they do today
LOV K. GROVER
On Common Ground • Infiltration
Art, civil order and decency are all that keep the pressing surge of chaos from flooding what we hold dear
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
The Littlest Patient
Surgeons have begun cutting open the womb to repair defects in the unborn. But can society adjust to the consequences of routine fetal surgery?
DARIO O. FAUZA
REVIEWS
This is the Way the World Ended
The dinosaurs, some steadfast critics say, went out with a bang and a whimper
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
Books in Brief • Lord of the Flies
PLUS: Weather maps; tales from New Guinea
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
No secrets
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • What Drives Discovery?
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Meltdown, The A Ray, Executive Reprieve, Come Together, Forked Tongues, Qbits
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