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Articles in Oct 2000 issue of Discover

• Science Myth - compasses and the 'north magnetic pole' - Brief Article
• Neurocomputers - computers are far from comparable to human brain
  by Mark Sincell
• Bio Crops - what to expect in 20 years - Brief Article
  by Bruce Mccall
• Free For All: How Linux And The Free Software Movement Undercut The High-Tech Titans. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Exploring Native North America. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Thar She Blows - remote chance of tsunamis on the East coast - Brief Article
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• Underhanded Achievement - physics of the underhand free-throw in basketball
  by Curtis Rist
• Twenty of the greatest blunders in Science in the last twenty years
  by Judith Newman
• A Rum Affair: A True Story Of Botanical Fraud. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• 20/20 Visions
  by Scott Kim
• Straight Talk - difficulty in determing alcohol levels by speech - Brief Article
  by Fenella Saunders
• Much Too Tired - trypanosomiasis case
  by Claire Panosian Dunavan
• Twenty things that will be obsolete in twenty years
  by Eric Haseltine
• E= [MC.sup.2]: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS EQUATION. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• re sources
• Robot Watch: Going Robo-Postal - automated mail sorting - Brief Article
  by Fenella Saunders
• Birth of An Antarctic Super-berg
  by Karen Wright
• Twenty ideas that will rule research in the next twenty years
• The Two-Headed Boy And Other Medical Marvels. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Quiet, Please! - Brief Article
  by Eric Haseltine
• Armageddon in a Can - the building of a nuclear fusion machine that will do away the need to test nuclear weapons by explosion - Brief Article
  by Sara Pratt
• Risky Business - manned flight to Mars - Brief Article
  by Bob Berman
• Twenty things that Won't change in the next twenty years
  by Brad Lemley
• Laughter: A Scientific Investigation. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• LETTERS
• Next, The Copier Will Reproduce Popsicles - ice printer creates 3-D models - Brief Article
  by Fenella Saunders
• Welcome to the future
  by Stephen L. Petranek
• It's No Illusion - exhibit Magic: The Science of Illusion, California Science Center - Brief Article
  by Thomas Fields-Meyer
• Leonardo Da Vinci. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• ERRATA
• These Boots Are Made For Galloping - gas-powered boots from Russia - Brief Article
  by Eric Powell
• Twenty ways the world could end suddenly
  by Corey S. Powell
• Building Big. - Review - book review
  by Fenella Saunders
• Leonardo: The First Scientist. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Odor Engineers - bringing the aroma back to inbred flowers - Brief Article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Lab-Grown Black Holes - Brief Article
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• What you'll need to know in twenty years that you don't know now - predictions in technology
  by Joseph D'Agnese
• Valley Of The Golden Mummies. - Review - book review
  by Rabiya S. Tuma
• Rube Goldberg: Inventions! - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Bugs in Space - mildew in space stations - Brief Article
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• ASK THE WIZARD What makes each human voice distinct? RUBY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - Brief Article
• Twenty species we may lose in the next twenty years
  by JACK McCLINTOCK
• Conversation With Mummies: New Light On The Lives Of Ancient Egyptians. - Review - book review
  by Rabiya S. Tuma
• Stardust: Supernovae And Life—The Cosmic Connection. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• The Emperor's New Genome? - mapping of the human genome is far from complete, despite press releases to the contrary - Brief Article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• He Sweats The Small Stuff - Nobel laureate Leon Lederman - Brief Article - Interview
  by Fenella Saunders
• Twenty Scientists to watch in the next twenty years
  by William Speed Weed
• The American Heritage Dictionary Of The English Language, Fourth Edition. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell
• Blaze: The Forensics Of Fire. - Review - book review
  by Eric Powell