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From: rik@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: TOC Scientific American Vol. 253 No. 5 (November 1985)
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 17:22:14 EDT
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%A John Cairns
%T The Treatment Of Diseases and the War Against Cancer
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 51-59
%Z Failure to implement some obvious preventive measures undermines U.S.
efforts to control cancer.

%A P. Kevin MacKeown
%A Trevor C. Weekes
%T Cosmic Rays From Cygnus X-3
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 60-69
%Z Where do cosmic rays come from?  Transfer of energy and matter
between binary stars generate them.

%A Ernesto Carafoli
%A John T. Penniston
%T The Calcuim Signal
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 70-78
%Z It mediates a broad array of cellular functions.  Protein pumps and
other structures turn it on or off.

%A David G. Howell
%T Terranes
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 116-125
%Z A continent consists of an ancient core to which sea-floor spreading
adds these additional pieces.

%A Martin E. Feder
%A Warren W. Burggren
%T Skin Breathing in Vertebrates
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 126-142
%Z In many reptiles and amphgibians the skin does the work of lungs or
gills; in some it replaces them.

%A Mark Drela
%A John S. Langford
%T Human-Powered Flight
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 144-151
%Z Such aircraft are fun to design and fly; they also open to inquiry a
little-understood flight regime.

%A Robert McIvor
%T Smart Cards
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 152-159
%Z Secure and versatile, such credit cards confront the engineer with
challenging problems of design.

%A Jean S. Aigner
%T Early Arctic Settlements in North America
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 5
%D November 1985
%P 160-169
%Z Survival in the Arctic appears to have required a high degree of
social and economic flexibility.