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    Madagascar's Mesozoic Secrets

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

    By John J. Flynn and André R. Wyss

    The Magic of Microarrays

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

    By Stephen H. Friend and Roland B. Stoughton

    Bejeweled Worlds

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

    By Joseph A. Burns, Douglas P. Hamilton and Mark R. Showalter
    The Bottleneck
    Sustainability

    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

    By Edward O. Wilson

    The Network in Every Room

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

    By W. Wayt Gibbs

    Departments

    • Coal Control

    • Paving Out Pollution

    • The Gradual Illumination of the Mind

    • Data Points: February 2002

    • Parts of Speech

    • Letters

      Letters

    • Advances

      Count to 10

    • Quieting Killer Wakes

    • Setback for Super-K

    • What Clones?

    • Sonic Womb

    • Early Warning

    • Splitting with Sunshine

    • Otherworldly Air

    • Into the Maize

    • Recommended

      Treasonous Idealism

    • Anti Gravity

      Kabul Session

    • 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

      50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

    • Perspectives

      A Ready-Made Controversy

    • In Brief

      Brief Bits: Feburary 2002

    • Puzzling Adventures

      Shifty Witnesses

    • Profile

      Telecom's Man of the Moment

    • Staking Claims

      Intellectual Improprieties

    • Innovations

      Down with the Bad, Up with the Good

    • By the Numbers

      Assembling the Future

    • Technicalities

      Surrounded by Sound

    • Working Knowledge

      Eye in the Sky

    • Ask the Experts

      End Points: February 2002

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