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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket As Issued. Pages and covers are clean and unmarked. Some pages have a mildly bent or creased corner tip or two. Mailing label on the lower left corner of the front cover. Some pages have a tiny edge tear in the fore-edge, as does the back cover. Very little wear otherwise. This issue includes: "Climate Shock: Abrupt Changes over Millennial Time Scales" (How will Earth's climate respond to ongoing changes in greenhouse gases and ocean circulation? Answers about the future might be found in the past) by Edouard Bard; "Intergalactic Magnetic Fields" (Magnetic fields that spread far beyond the galaxies that created them represent a significant and only recently revealed, component of the cosmic energy budget) by Philipp P. Kronberg; "Diederick Korteweg, Pioneer of Criticality" (Kortweg's late 19th century studies of van der Waals mixtures anticipated important work to be done in the 20th century, and the types of questions he tackled continue to be of interest) by Johanna Levelt Sengers and Antonius H. M. Levelt; "Physics Update"; "Reference Frame" (Truth, ownership, and scientific tradition) by Robert B. Laughlin; "Letters"; "Search and Discovery" (Physics Nobel Prize is awarded to Giacconi, Davis, and Koshiba--Chemistry Nobel laureates helped develop tools to study large biological molecules--Time-reversed ultrasound beats the diffraction limit); "Issues and Events" (NSF budget doubling stalls, but increases likely--Duke beams hard gamma rays, soft x rays--Scientists put their minds to policy and diplomacy--Free-electron laser focal point of industrial physics forum--News Notes--Web Watch); "Opinion" (Educating physicists for industry: The rest of the story) by Kenneth C. Hass.