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January 2000 cover, link to contents
January 2000
Complete table of contents

Selected Items:
Motile Behavior of Bacteria
E. coli, a self-replicating object only one-thousandth of a millimeter in size, can swim 35 diameters a second, taste simple chemicals in its environment, and decide whether life is getting better or worse.
--Howard C. Berg

Search and Discovery
Mapping the Interstellar Cloud We Live in

Washington Reports
DOE Shuts Brookhaven Lab's HFBR in a triumph of politics over science.

Physics Community
Stakes Rise in Row Over Siting UK Synchrotron Light Source

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