Features

• Kicking the Habit

  February 1, 2002  |

• Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor

  Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi   | February 1, 2002  | 5

• The Magic of Microarrays

  DNA microarrays could hasten the day when custom-tailored treatment plans replace a one-size-fits-all approach to medicine

  Stephen H. Friend and Roland B. Stoughton   | February 1, 2002  |

• Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets

  The world's fourth-largest island divulges fossils that could revolutionize views on the origins of dinosaurs and mammals

  John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss   | February 1, 2002  |

• Bejeweled Worlds

  Moons and resonances sculpt elegant, austere rings around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and maybe even Mars

  Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton and Mark R. Showalter   | February 1, 2002  |

• The Network in Every Room

  Thanks to ingenious engineering, computers and appliances can now communicate through the electrical power wiring in a house

  W. Wayt Gibbs   | February 1, 2002  |

• The Bottleneck

  We have entered the Century of the Environment, in which the immediate future is usefully conceived as a bottleneck: science and technology, combined with foresight and moral courage, must see us through it and out

  Edward O. Wilson   | February 1, 2002  | 1