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Subject: TOC Scientific American 251(4), Oct 1984
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                           Table of Contents

                          SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
                          Volume 251 Number 4
                              October 1984

"COMPUTER RECREATIONS,"
	Yank D. Weed, pp. 20-27.
	[A computational garden sprouting anagrams, pangrams and few
	weeds.]
"SPACE-BASED BALLISTIC-MISSILE DEFENSE,"
	Hans A. Bethe (Cornell University), Richard L. Garwin (IBM
	T.J. Watson Research Center), Kurt Gottfried (Cornell University)
	and Henry W. Kendall (M.I.T.), pp. 39-49.
	[It will set yet another heat in the arms race.]
"PRIONS,"
	Stanley B. Prusiner (University of California, San Francisco),
	pp. 50-59.
	[A new variety of infectious agent, 100 times smaller than a
	virus, appears to lack genetic material.]
"SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY,"
	Don L. Anderson and Adam M. Dziewonski (California Institute of
	Technology), pp. 60-68.
	[Geologists borrow an idea from medicine to make three-
	dimensional images of the earth's mantle.]
"CARTILAGE,"
	Arnold I. Caplan (Case Western University), pp. 84-94.
	[The molecules that make up cartilage enable it to play key
	structural roles in the human body.]
"EPSILON AURIGAE,"
	Margherita Hack (Astronomical Observatory of Trieste),
	pp. 98-105.
	[For 163 years this binary star has puzzled astronomers; its
	structure has now been clarified.]
"A LATE ICE-AGE SETTLEMENT IN SOUTHERN CHILE,"
	Tom D. Dillehay (University of Kentucky), pp. 106-117.
	[A forest site reveals that wood and plants were as important
	to its inhabitants as stone and bone.]
"THE CONTINUOUS PROCESSING OF METALS IN THE U.S.S.R.,"
	A.I. Tselikov (Moscow), pp. 120-129.
	[A remarkable engineering institution has made major innovations
	in this industrial technology.]
"THE CRYSTAL PALACE,"
	Folke T. Kihlstedt (Franklin and Marshall College), pp. 132-143.
	[Admired, yet not taken seriously as architecture, it heralded
	contemporary method and aesthetic.]
"THE AMATEUR SCIENTIST,"
	Jearl Walker, pp. 144-152.
	[The troublesome teapot effect, or why a poured liquid clings
	to the container.]
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