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Print edition: April 1999
Features
Quantum phase transitions
Where science meets diplomacy
Physics in Action
Physicists size up DNA molecules
Weak ferromagnet challenges theorists
News & Analysis
Particle laboratories clash over precedence of 'new' discovery
UK digs deep in search for dark matter
Next-generation synchrotron shapes up
String theory tops the best-seller list
Science finds it difficult to keep secrets
Physicists help tie up a knotty problem
Middle East prize faces an uncertain future
How to combine physics and a family
Tax boost for small firms in UK
France reforms school system
Cash injection for physics labs
France gets nano-tech nework
Feedback
Solutions offered to teaching crisis
A bluffer's guide to lab demonstration
Reviews
Tangible reminder of a material heritage
When conflict tests your convictions
Ludwig Boltzmann: The Man Who Trusted Atoms, Carlo Cercignani
Boltzmann: a disordered genius
Understanding Materials Science: History, Properties, Applications, Rolf Hummel
Physics in conflict: From Antiquity to the New Millennium, Neil Porter
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