APS Physics and Society Newsletter - Jan ' 97

APS Forum on Physics and Society - January 1997

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Volume 26, Number 1 Jan 1997

• Elections
  
  1. Candidate Statements. Please Vote!

• Letters
  
  1. Teaching vs. Research: David B. Pushkin
  2. Scientific Adversary Procedures: Arthur Kantrowitz
  3. Physicists Helping Russia: Thomas P. Sheahen

• Articles
  
  1. Low Dose Linearity: An Introduction: Richard Wilson
  2. Patterns of excess risk in the RERF Life Span Study: Donald A. Pierce
  3. Effects of Low Dose protracted exposures to ioninzing radiation: nuclear worker studies: Elisabeth Cardis
  4. Test of the Linear-No Threshold Theory of Radiation Carcinogenesis: Bernard L. Cohen
  5. ABM, START and STARS program in Hawaii: Michael Jones

• News
  
  1. Short News Items, including FPS Sessions at the March and April APS meetings
  2. Some Budget Outlooks
  3. APS/AIP Congressional Science Fellowships
  4. Postdoctoral Position--Peace Studies Program--Cornell University

• Reviews
  1. The Nuclear Black Market, Global Organized Crime Project: reviewed by David Hafemeister
  2. Article Reviews: From World Watch: reviewed by Art Hobson

• Comments
  1. Vote!: Edward Gerjuoy
  2. Comment on Neal Lane's July 1996 address to the Arlington Rotary Club: Jeffrey Marque

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