Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!rik From: rik@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mag Subject: TOC Scientific American, Vol. 253(1), July 1985 Message-ID: <6026@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 21:00:35 EDT Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.6026 Posted: Sun Jun 16 21:00:35 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Jun-85 15:21:47 EDT Reply-To: rik@ucla-cs.UUCP (Rik Verstraete) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 84 %A C. Arden Miller %T Infant Mortality in The U.S. %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 31-37 %Z An abrupt slowing of the decline in infant deaths coincides with cutbacks in Federal programs. %A Robert Hamilton Brown %A Dale P. Cruikshank %T The Moons of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 38-47 %Z Soon Voyager 2 will provide closeup views of these small, icy satellites. %A Charles H. Bennett %A Rolf Landauer %T The Fundamental Physical Limits of Computation %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 48-56 %Z No minimum expenditure of energy is required. Are there other constraints? %A G. Ledyard Stebbins %A Francisco J. Ayala %T The Evolution of Darwinism %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 72-82 %Z Fresh data and new interpretations alter and amplify the synthetic theory; they do not contradict it. %A Gary K. Beauchamp %A Kunio Yamazaki %A Edward A. Boyse %T The Chemosensory Recognition of Genetic Individuality %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 86-92 %Z Mice are able to sniff out genetic differences. %A Peter M. Warren %T Minoan Palaces %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 94-103 %Z Detailed study of their architecture, and thus of their functions, reconstructs a Bronze Age society. %A Arie Issar %T Fossil Water under the Sinai-Negev Peninsula %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 104-110 %Z A vast underground reservoir formed during the latest ice age can be exploited to water the desert. %A Douglass H. Morse %T Milkweeds and Their Visitors %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 1 %D July 1985 %P 112-119 %Z Nectar-feeders, herbivores, predators and parasites gather to form a model ecological community.