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COLUMNS
The Information Age • Eureka!
Forget the needle in the haystack. Modern searchers often don't know what they're looking for until they have found it
BRIAN HAYES
Heat Exchange • Q & A: Bush vs. Gore
The two major presidential candidates reply to questions from The Sciences on science and technology policy
CONDUCTED BY IRWIN GOODWIN
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Cover Story • Defense Mechanisms
Neither President Clinton's National Missile Defense nor George W. Bush's even more ambitious system would be technically capable of shielding the United States against a missile attack
KOSTA TSIPIS
FEATURES
Oral Reports
Dentistry is shifting its emphasis from drill and fill to antibiotics and biotechnology. For the patient, that is a future to smile about
ROBERT J. GENCO, FRANK A. SCANNAPIECO AND HAROLD C. SLAVKIN
More Than Meets the Eye
Ninety-five percent of the cosmos is made up of mysterious dark matter that holds tha galaxies together and dark energy that drives the universe apart
MICHAEL S. TURNER
REVIEWS
Naked Ambition
The TV blockbuster Survivor as a test bed for thinking about political and economic strategy
ALEXA JERVIS AND ROBERT JERVIS
Books in Brief • Ceaseless Efforts
PLUS: Treasures of Madagascar; grand old man of astronomy
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
WInners and Losers
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review
Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Moore
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
When sperm meets egg; learning from smallpox
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