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Subject: TOC Scientific American 251(5), Nov 1984
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Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 11:49:50 EDT
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                           Table of Contents

                          SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
                          Volume 251 Number 5
                              November 1984

"COMPUTER RECREATIONS,"
	A.K. Dewdney, pp. 19-28.
	[Yin and yang: recursion and iteration, the Tower of Hanoi and
	the Chinese rings.]
"THE VALUE OF FUNDAMENTAL SCIENCE,"
	Leon M. Lederman (Fermilab, Batavia, Ill.; Columbia University),
	pp. 40-47.
	[Pure science deserves support for its own sake; the support
	also yields handsome dividends.]
"THE INFRARED SKY,"
	Harm J. Habing (University of Leiden) and Gerry Neugebauer
	(Caltech), pp. 48-57.
	[Comets, stars, galaxies, gas and dust clouds as seen by the
	Infrared Astronomical Satellite.]
"HOW LDL RECEPTORS INFLUENCE CHOLESTEROL AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS,"
	Michael S. Brown and Joseph Goldstein (University of Texas,
	Dallas), pp. 58-66.
	[Receptors maintain a literally vital balance.]
"MODERN BAKING TECHNOLOGY,"
	Samuel A. Matz (consultant), pp. 122-134.
	[This $30 billion-a-year industry relies on mass production to
	meet demand for its varied product.]
"THE CANOPY OF THE TROPICAL RAIN FOREST,"
	Donald R. Perry (pollination biologist), pp. 138-147.
	[Once inaccessible, this aerial habitat has been opened to
	exploration by the author's invention.]
"THE C3 LASER,"
	W.T. Tsang (AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ), pp. 148-161.
	[Its beam of infrared radiation is so pure that it can easily
	transmit a billion bits per second.]
"MAMMOTH-BONE DWELLINGS ON THE RUSSIAN PLAIN,"
	Mikhail I. Gladkih (Kiev State University), Ninelj L. Kornietz
	(Institute of Zoology, Kiev) and Olga Soffer (University of
	Wisconsin, Milwaukee), pp. 164-175.
	[They reveal a new and rapidly developing social order.]
"GOTHIC STRUCTURAL EXPERIMENTATION,"
	Robert Mark (Princeton University) and William W. Clark (Queens
	College of the City University of New York), pp. 176-185.
	[The builders of the cathedrals learned from experience; they
	also learned from one another.]
"THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,"
	Jearl Walker, pp. 186-93.
	[A ball bearing aids in the study of light and also serves as a
	lens.]
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