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Print edition: September 1997
Features
Scientists exploit the Global Positioning System
Optical tweezers and spanners
Physics and the Human Genome Project
Universities welcome new degrees
Olympiad students win medals
Portugal joins the ESRF
On-line journals go hyper
Policy moves up agenda
Quantum-dot lasers
Military loses out to civil R&D
Physics in Action
Theory catches up with flying frog
Physics helps to find buried objects
Defects detected with lasers and ultrasound
New views on twilight vision
Microscope images individual charges
News & Analysis
Astronomers in race for Gemini
Canada closes seven reactors
Budget boost for 5th framework
EU increases physics network
Russian and the EU start talks
More time for fusion design
Albania votes in physicist
Irish R&D spend announced
Power could be seized from research council
National debt threatens science plans
Space programme cut back
NuPECC backs theory
Rotblat retires
University stewards
Computer networks taken to task
Glimmer of peace appears in the science wars
Student numbers stay steady in the UK
Physicist alternates between DC and MIT
Student numbers:...but fall in US
US could restart breeder reactor
Editorial
Forum
Counting the cost after Dearing
Feedback
Physics -- which way now?
Spanish attraction
Skeptics cornered
Setting priorities for big science
Reviews
Rough world
Eric Taylor
Stephen Hawking's Universe
Schrvdinger's Machines: the Quantum Technology Reshaping Everyday Life Gerard Milburn
Heisenberg Probably Slept Here: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Physicists of the 20th Century Richard Brennan
