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November 1999
Table of contents

Selected Items:
How We Localize Sound
Relying on a variety of cues, including intensity, timing, and spectrum, our brains recreate a three-dimensional image of the acoustic landscape from the sounds we hear.
-William M. Hartmann


Reference Frame

Mass without mass I: Most of matter
--Frank Wilczek

Washington Reports
Krebs steps down as science chief of DOE

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