[net.mag] TOC - Scientific American Vol. 253 No. 3

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%A Frank von\0Hippel
%A David H. Albright
%A Barbara G. Levi
%T Stopping the Production of Fissile Materials for Weapons
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 40-47
%Z It is a verifiable way to limit the arms race.

%A John W. Leibacher
%A Robert W. Noyes
%A Juri Toomre
%A Roger K. Ulrich
%T Helioseismology
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 48-57
%Z Oscillations of the sun, observed on the surface, can yield clues to
the solar interior.

%A Peter Albersheim
%A Alan G. Darvill
%T Oligosaccharins
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 58-64
%Z A new kind of plant hormone has been identified: cell-wall fragments
that act as regulatory molecules.

%A James E. Rothman
%T The Compartmental Organization of the Golgi Apparatus
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 74-89
%Z The organelle that processes proteins has three functionally
specialized divisions.

%A John H. Sinfelt
%T Bimetallic Catalysts
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 90-98
%Z Chemical reactions rates are controlled by varying the composition of
tiny clusters of metal atoms.

%A Robert R. Jackson
%T A Web-Building Jumping Spider
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 102-115
%Z Some spiders jump and others build webs.  A species that does both
gets the jump on other spiders.

%A Michael T. Motley
%T Slips of the Tongue
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 116-127
%Z How do they happen?  What do they mean?  To study such questions,
slips are induced in the laboratory.

%A Thomas D. Seeley
%A Joan W. Nowicke
%A Matthew Meselson
%A Jeanne Guillemin
%A Pongthep Akratanakul
%T Yellow Rain
%J Scientific American
%V 253
%N 3
%D September 1985
%P 128-137
%Z An alleged chemical-warfare agent is honeybee feces.