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From the Editor: Women's Health
Why do we talk about it at lunch?
Profile: Stainless Stones
Stephen Porter sculpts the rocky ruins of Scotland's
Skara Brae and Maes Howe with stainless steel and a computer.
Encyclopedia:
Puf 'n' Stuf
Inhalers may be the most effective way of medicating
the body.
Toys Are Us
Today's toys still promote gender differences.
Recycling on Ice
Researchers look to Antarctica for a recycling role model.
Plastic Fantastic
Organic conductors like pentacene could make good plastic
transistors.
Following Suit
Predict which rung you'll reach on the corporate ladder:
Are you a high or low self-monitor?
In a Pennsylvania Rainforest
The effect of society on amphibians, as seen by a Jefferson
salamander.
News Reports:
A female focus on steroids, welfare, books, caffeine,
housing, abortion, cancer, childrearing, and heart attacks.
ARTICLES
Our Bodies, Our Health
Where does a Women's Health Center fit in? Does it offer
higher quality care? Or is it just filling a marketing niche?
A Natural History of the Menopause
Mathematics -- and a projected quarter of a million urine
samples -- may explain why every woman's experience of menopause seems
unique.
Abnormal Being
"I was sick of all the doctors examing, testing,
screening, only to hear the diagnosis: Abnormal." Joining a study
of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, the writer hopes to cure at least her frustration.
Journey to the Center of the Ice
The assault on 22,000-foot Nevado Sajama would have been
tough enough without the fickle weather, the dysentery, and the five tons
of drilling equipment. Geophysicist Todd Sowers was part of a term that
persevered and brought back 15,000 years' worth of tropical ice -- a record
of climate extending to the last ice age -- from Bolivia's highest peak.
Research Resources: Mapping Your World
Deasy GeoGraphics Lab and the University Libraries have
combined to make mapmaking not only more accessible, but a lot more fun.
Notebook: Phasers on Stun
A sampling of the many ways we could all benefit from
non-lethal defense technologies.
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