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COLUMNS
Field Notes • A Tale of Two Lakes
One lies in Siberia; the second is hidden beneath two miles of Antarctic ice. One has life in abundance. If the second does, too, it may hold clues about life beyond the earth
ERICA B. GOLDMAN
Idylls of the Mind • Shower Power
Scientists need to know what generations of executives learned ages ago: how to turn two weeks in Hawai'i into a business expense
PETER TAUBER
Physika • On Close Inspection
A new instrument may be able to detect whether space and time, at the smallest scales, froth like the waves on a storm-tossed ocean
HANS CHRISTIAN VON BAEYER
ESSAYS & COMMENT
Deep Denial
AIDS is the scourge of Africa, and HIV could outwit the drugs that now control it in the West. Yet the search for an AIDS vaccine still cries out for leadership and coordinated research
JON COHEN
FEATURES
Playing Both Sides
Parrondo's paradox shows that you can win at two losing games by switching between them. The result has surprising implications for the origins of life
ERICA KLARREICH
On Common Ground • The Inner Eye of Outer Reality
With each change in focus, the world resolves anew
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROSAMOND PURCELL
TEXT BY STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Cover Story • Artful Dodgers
Virtuosos of art forgery meet the masters of scientific deduction
WALTER C. McCRONE
REVIEWS
Power Train
Hybrid-electric vehicles are clean, efficient and powerful. But they will not be built in volume until automakers abandon the fantasy that only a technological revolution will wean drivers away from the gasoline engine
VICTOR WOUK
Books in Brief • The Story of P
PLUS: Measuring gravity waves; food, glorious food
LAURENCE A. MARSCHALL
DEPARTMENTS
Initial Conditions • Editor's Notebook
2001: Reel to Real
PETER G. BROWN
Peer Review • Letters from Readers
Working Hypotheses • The House Of Science
RODNEY W. NICHOLS
Quanta
Archeological frauds?; evolution in overdrive
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