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Subject: TOC, Scientific American 251(6) December 1984
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Date: Fri, 16-Nov-84 19:27:32 EST
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%A Samuel H. Preston
%T Children and the Elderly in the U.S.
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 44-49
%Z The well-being of elderly people has been improving, while that of
children has declined sharply.

%A Richard G. Brewer
%A Erwin L. Hahn
%T Atomic Memory
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 50-57
%Z Some atomic systems seem capable of overcoming entropy: they can
regain apparently lost order.

%A Corey S. Goodman
%A Michael J. Bastiani
%T How Embryonic Nerve Cells Recognize One Another
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 58-66
%Z They may follow pathways marked by molecular codes.

%A John Monforte
%T The Digital Reproduction of Sound
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 78-84
%Z This technique produces superior recording by representing sound as
a series of binary digits.

%A Philip H. Brownell
%T Prey Detection by the Sand Scorpion
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 86-97
%Z Structures on its legs act as sensitive seismometers that pick up
minute vibrations in the sand.

%A Ye. A. Kozlovsky
%T The World's Deepest Well
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 98-104
%Z A 12,000-meter-deep well is providing a direct look into 1.4
billion years of geologic history

%A Lynn A. Cooper
%A Roger N. Shepard
%T Turning Something Over in the Mind
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 106-114
%Z In imagining manipulations of objects the mind imitates events in
the real world.

%A John D. Harbron
%T The Spanish Ship of the Line
%J Scientific American
%V 251
%N 6
%D December 1984
%P 116-129
%Z The most awesome warship of its day, the Santisima Trinidad had 144
guns and a crew of 1,200.