rik@ucla-cs.UUCP (11/21/85)
%A Herbert Lin %T The Development of Software for Ballistic-Missile Defense %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 46-53 %Z It must work perfectly the first time; experience shows such performance is unlikely. %A Vladimir V. Shkunov %A Boris Ya. Zel'dovich %T Optical Phase Conjugation %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 54-59 %Z A distorted beam of light can be reflected back along its path so that a clear image is reproduced. %A Franz Huber %A John Thorson %T Cricket Auditory Communication %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 60-68 %Z Just how does the female cricket's nervous sytem respond to the mating song of the male cricket? %A Jeffrey Laurence %T The Immune System in AIDS %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 84-93 %Z An understanding of how the AIDS virus causes the illness suggests possible therapeutic strategies. %A Peter H. Schultz %T Polar Wandering on Mars %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 94-102 %Z It appears that the planet's entire lithosphere has shifted, moving polar regions toward the equator. %A Daniel Gorenstein %T The Enormous Theorem %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 104-115 %Z More than 100 mathematicians have created a 15,000-page proof of a basic result in group theory. %A Vaclav Smil %T China's Food %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 116-124 %Z Can China continue to feed its one billion people adequately? The question is important to everyone. %A Lothar Haselberger %T The Construction Plans for the Temple of Apollo at Didyma %J Scientific American %V 253 %N 6 %D December 1985 %P 126-132 %Z Temple ``blueprints'' have long been sought. Now the author has found a set.