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From: rob@amadeus.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Support Scientific American
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Date: 9 Mar 88 08:44:12 GMT
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Summary: Try Science News

In article <2495@orca.TEK.COM> brucec@orca.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) writes:
>	I've read occasional
>issues of the other popular science magazines, and rate them terrible
>(Omni - no factual content to speak of, and a horrible tendency to
>National Enquirism) to mediocre (Discover - not enough technical
>sophistication).

Perhaps it's not considered "popular", but I consider Science News to be
the best general science magazine around.  Of course, it has a slightly
different purpose than Scientific American, so subscribing to both SN and
SA would not be a bad idea.  


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Dan Tilque  --  dant@mrloog.LA.TEK.COM