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COLUMNS
Physica • The Lotus Effect
The secret of the self-cleaning leaves of the lotus plant, like the subtlest applications of high technology, is simplicity itself
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
Field Notes • Lost and Found
Vietnam's strange, newly recognized mammalian species endured decades of war. Now biologists wonder whether the animals can survive the peace
DANIEL DROLLETTE
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • Shore Leave
Seaside communities spend millions fighting coastal erosion. But saving one beach often means destroying another
PAUL D. KOMAR
FEATURES
There She Blows
Gamma-ray bursts are so prodigiously powerful that astronomers are struggling to imagine cataclysms violent enough to explain them
ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
Why Men Rape
Prevention efforts will founder until they are based on the understanding that rape evolved as a form of male reproductive behavior
RANDY THORNHILL AND CRAIG T. PALMER
REVIEWS
Lard Almighty!
Pork-barrel politics is elbowing aside peer review as a way to choose who gets the money for university research
PHILIP M. SMITH
Books in Brief • Uncommon Sense
PLUS: Technicolor universe; the Etna reader
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
Back to Work
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review • Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Y2K Fever
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Spy vs. sci at Los Alamos; rethinking gene delivery systems; oldest vertebrate discovered; Jupiter's cold start? Q-bits
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