Features
		Enrico Fermi in Rome, 1931-32
		A Nobel laureate recalls the two semesters he spent as a postdoctoral fellow with the boys of Via Panisperna, led by the young Enrico Fermi -- Hans A. Bethe with Henry Bethe
		Enrico Fermi and Quantum Electrodynamics, 1929-32
		A review article that Fermi wrote in 1932 taught an entire generation of physicists how to think about quantum electrodynamic effects in atomic phenomena -- Silvan S. Schweber
		Enrico Fermi in America
		Fermi emigrated surreptitiously from fascist Italy by way of Stockholm, where he received the 1938 Nobel Prize. A few days after his arrival in America came the portentous news of uranium fission -- Valentine L. Telegdi
		An Excursion with Enrico Fermi, 14 July 1954
		Rising above it all in the French Alps, four colleagues had an adventurous afternoon -- Roy Glauber
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		Numerus Clausus Led to Hungarian Exodus in 1920s
		Statistical Mechanics May Have Dynamic Future
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	Search & Discovery
		Two Realization Schemes Raise Hopes for Superconducting Quantum Bits
		Researchers have extended by two orders of magnitude the time over which two-state superconducting systems maintain phase coherence.
		Slowly, but Steadily, Fermilab Pushes the Upgraded Tevatron toward Its Design Goals
		The lab is confident that its revamped accelerator, although currently behind schedule, will produce proton-antiproton collisions at the promised rate.
	Issues & Events
		Science Board Says US Leadership in R&D Strong, but Faces Growing Foreign Competitions
		Federal funding of life sciences at the expense of basic research in the physical sciences and engineering could eventually erode the premier position of US science.
		Stellarator Fusion Gets a New Look
		Symmetry has rekindled interest in stellarators as a possible path to fusion energy.
		House Legislation Calls for Doubling NSF Budget
		The call for a "more balanced portfolio" between life sciences and basic research has become almost a mantra on Capitol Hill.
		Watson Dumped from Climate Panel
		The Bush administration, on the advice of the fossil fuel industry, surprised the international scientific community by refusing to renominate incumbent Robert Watson to chair the Geneva-based Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), effectively killing his chances of retaining his position.
		Charpak, Garwin Propose Unit for Radiation Dose
		Becquerels, curies, grays, rads, rems, roentgens, sieverts--even for specialists the units of radiation can get confusing.
		Nevada Issues Atomic License Plate
		Nevada's newest special-interest license plate depicts an atom, Einstein's equation E = mc 2, and the mushroom cloud from an atomic blast.
		Juzaitis Withdraws as Candidate for LLNL Directorship
		University of California and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory officials met with their counterparts at the Department of Energy in early May to try to avoid a repeat of the embarrassment surrounding the near-appointment of physicist Ray Juzaitis as LLNL's new director.
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		Spain offers ITER site
		Web Watch
		Selected Papers of Great American Physicists; Non-Newtonian Fluids Research Group; Ocean Drilling Program; Lawrence and the Cyclotron
	Opinion
		Two Views of Intelligent Design
		Intelligent Design Is Creationism in a Cheap Tuxedo --- Adrian L. Melott Philosophy Is Essential to the Intelligent Design Debate --- Mano Singham
	Books
		Biological Micro- and Nanotribology: Nature's Solutions, Matthias Scherge and Stanislav N. Gorb (reviewed by Howard A. Stone)
		The Coming of Materials Science, Robert W. Cahn (reviewed by David A. Weitz)
		Theory of Itinerant Electron Magnetism, Jürgen Kübler (reviewed by Carlos A. R. Sa de Melo)
		Neutron Interferometry: Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Helmut Rauch and Samuel A. Werner (reviewed by Jeffrey W. Lynn)
		The Structure of the Nucleon, Anthony W. Thomas and Wolfram Weise (reviewed by Gordon Baym)
		Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics , Govind P. Agrawal (reviewed by Hermann A. Haus)
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		London Prize to be Presented in Japan
		NAS Honors Achievements
		Canadian Research Institute Honors Young Scientists
		NAE Elects New Members
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	Obituaries
		Richard Edward Honig
		Robert Lawrence Jepsen
		Lester Machta
		Philip Edward Seiden
		Eric Thomas Swartz
	Supplement
		AIP Annual Report 2001
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