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COLUMNS
Field Notes • The Wild, Wild Pest
A gang of crude yet deadly viruses, on the run from domestic animals, is slaughtering wild species worldwide
CYNTHIA MILLS
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Just Cause
As the human genome is decoded, artists are seizing the stuff of the genetic revolution and grappling with its dilemmas
EMILY LABER
FEATURES
Antarctic Dreams
Deep in the South Polar ice, a new neutrino telescope at last has seen first light. Its targets are the most violent events in the universe
FRANCIS HALZEN
Twilight on Bald Mountain
Time is running out for a rare habitat in southern Appalachia. Would saving it be an unnatural act?
TRAVIS W. KNOWLES
On Common Ground • Layering
Does the "naked truth" always lie at the bottom?
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
MIRACLES OF RARE DEVICE
New tools, not new ideas, will usher in tomorrow's scientific marvels
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
FREEMAN J. DYSON
REVIEWS
Cover Story • The Odd Couple
From geek chic to information appliances to empathic machines: the struggle for people-friendly computers continues
MARGARET WERTHEIM
Books in Brief • The Vision Thing
PLUS: A history of twentieth-century physics
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
God, Technology And Postmodernism
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Ethics Smuggle Them In?
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Metamorphoses, Burning Issue, One Hand is Better than Two, Q-bits
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