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Subject: TOC Scientific American 252(6), June 1985
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 22:42:08 EDT
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%A Wassily Leontief
%T The Choice of Technology
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 37-45
%X Managers have a powerful new analytical method for making investment
decisions about technology.

%A Richard L. Edelson
%A Joseph M. Fink
%T The Immunologic Function of Skin
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 46-53
%X There are specialized cells in the epidermis that present foreign
antigens to lymphocytes in the skin.

%A J.M. LoSecco
%A Frederick Reines
%A Daniel Sinclair
%T The Search for Proton Decay
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 54-62
%X Is matter immortal?  Theory says it is not, but so far no protons
have been seen to decay.

%A Ivan R. King
%T Globular Clusters
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 78-88
%X Dense throngs of ancient stars, they tell much about stellar
evolution and the history of the universe.

%A A.G. Cairns-Smith
%T The First Organisms
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 90-100
%X Not primordial soup but clay, it is argued, provided the fundamental
materials from which life came.

%A Michael P. Ghiglieri
%T The Social Ecology of Chimpanzees
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 102-113
%X A uniquely flexible social order enables chimp society to adjust to
changes in the abundance of food.

%A A. Trevor Hodge
%T Siphons in Roman Aqueducts
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 114-119
%X The siphon formed a key element in the water-supply systems that made
Roman urbanization possible.

%A Walter Tape
%T The Topology of Mirages
%J Scientific American
%V 252
%N 6
%D June 1985
%P 120-129
%X The distortions that create mirages can be analyzed topologically,
without reference to atmospherics.