Number 53 (Story #3), October 29, 1991 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (PRL) , the weekly journal published by The American Physical Society (APS), received generally high marks from a review panel organized by the APS. The panel does, however, make several recommendations, including the suggestion that PRL reduce the time between submission and publication (127 days was the recent average), that it abolish the option of publishing articles without a refereed review, and that authors take more seriously the goal of making the material accessible to a broad readership of nonexperts. The report of the review panel, published in August 1991, compares editorial procedures--words per article, papers received, acceptance ratios, delay times, etc.--of PRL with those of other journals, such as Physics Letters, Europhysics Letters, Science, Nature, and the Astrophysical Journal. (Copies of the report can be obtained from Evelyn Bernstein, APS, 212-661-9404.)