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January-February 2000 Volume 88, Number 1

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In recent years the production of poultry, eggs and pork has increasin...


FEATURE ARTICLES

Fishing Down Aquatic Food Webs

Daniel Pauly, Villy Christensen, Rainer Froese, Maria Palomares

Industrial fishing over the past half-century has noticeably depleted the topmost links in aquatic food chains


Fifty Years of Radiocarbon Dating *

R. E. Taylor

This widely applied technique has made major strides since its introduction a half-century ago at the University of Chicago


The Women Scientists of Bologna *

Maria Cieslak-Golonka, Bruno Morten

Eighteenth-century Bologna provided a rare liberal environment in which brilliant women could flourish


Impacts of Industrial Animal Production on Rivers and Estuaries *

Michael Mallin

Animal-waste lagoons and sprayfields near aquatic environments may significantly degrade water quality and endanger health


Connecting Materials Science and Music in Steel Drums *

Lawrence Murr, Everaldo Tello

A serendipitous collection of scientific, especially metallurgical, principles created melodic instruments from sawed-off steel barrels


The Galactic Environment of the Sun

Priscilla Frisch

The heliosphere appears to protect the inner solar system from the vagaries of the interstellar medium


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SCIENTISTS’ BOOKSHELF

Chinese Wisdom

Malcolm Sherman

A review of Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States, by Liping Ma.

See all book reviews for this issue.


DEPARTMENTS

COMPUTING SCIENCE

Graph Theory in Practice: Part I

Brian Hayes

Graphing netlike objects—including the World Wide Web

MACROSCOPE

How Much Free Speech for Scientists?

Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky

A brief history of government restraint in the United States

MARGINALIA

Exquisite Control

Roald Hoffmann

Precisely guiding chemical reactions at the molecular level

ENGINEERING

Time-Sensitive Material *

Henry Petroski

Top-10 lists for the new millennium

SCIENCE OBSERVER

Solar Windjamming

David Schneider

Sailing through space on a wind of protons

A Megalith for the Millennium

Dana Mackenzie

The University of Massachusetts commissions a modern Stonehenge

From the President