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Print edition: January 1999
Features
Ultrashort light pulses: life in the fast lane
Trieste: bridging the scientific divide
Physics in Action
Thin films squeeze out domains
Spacecraft anomalies put gravity to the test
Nanoelectronics needs new materials
News & Analysis
Europe plans magnet facility
Universities get stamp of quality
Budget boost for Swiss science
US looks for a new source of tritium
Germany to close reactors
New money for Irish science
Closer links with industry
Broader role for Foresight
France eyes up synchrotrons
Physicists look to the public
Reviews
Complexity simplified for beginners
Superconductors get ready for action
Mazwell's Demon: Why Warmth Disperses and Time Passes, Hans Christian von Baeyer
Foundations of Complex-System Theories: In Economics, Evolutionary Biology and Statistical Physics, Sunny Auyang
Handbook of Applied Superconductivity, (ed) Bernd Seeber
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