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The False Crisis in Science Education
The Broadest Broadband
A Less Expensive Way to Bring Fiber to the Home
Satellites: The Strategic High Ground
LMDS: Broadband Wireless Access
PAUL W. SHUMATE, JR., is executive director of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Prior to August 1999 he was a chief scientist and assistant general manager at Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore), in Morristown, N.J. He can be reached at p.shumate@ieee.org.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF A HYBRID FIBER-COAXIAL NETWORK
Higher-Speed Access
DSL: Broadband by Phone
Why Things Break
Scientists have known for most of this century that chemistry is responsible for whether a solid shatters or bends. But only now are they finding a way to predict which type of failure will win
The Unmet Challenges of Hepatitis C
Some 1.8 percent of the U.S. adult population are infected with the hepatitis C virus, most without knowing it
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The Hidden Ocean of Europa
Preserving Nefertari's Legacy
Working Knowledge on Laser Printers
- From the Editor
Curiosity and Schrödinger's Cat
- Letters
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Erratum
- Recommended
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PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE STARS
- Anti Gravity
It's not Oeuvre Till it's Oeuvre
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
- Wonders
Nitrogen: The Dark Side
- In Brief
IN BRIEF
- Profile
Infamy and Honor at the Atomic Café
- Mathematical Recreation
Cone with a Twist
- Amateur Scientist
Modeling the Atomic Universe
- Commentaries
A Total Eclipse of Reason
- Science and the Citizen
DESERTING THE SAHARA
FAT IN THE FIRE
PIRATE FEAR
BOOM OR BUST
Quantum Déjà Vu
- By the Numbers
Men, Women and College
- Connections
A Matter of Degrees
- Cyber View
To Err is Mechanical
- Technology and Business
TO BOLDLY GROW...
IN THE DRINK
Do-it-Yourself Financial Planning
- In Focus
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
