[Magazine] Scientific American. 1997. Vol. 276. No 1

Cover 1 Table of Contents 2 From the Editors 4 Letters to the Editors 5 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago 6 The 1996 Nobel Prizes in Science 7 In Focus 11 Science and the Citizen 13 Profile: Milo Medin 19 Technology and Business 21 Cyber View 24 Cosmic Rays at the Energy Frontier 25 Understanding Parkinson's Disease 31 Tackling Turbulence with Supercomputers 39 Transgenic Livestock as Drug Factories 46 How the Blind Draw 51 Experimental Flooding in Grand Canyon 57 The Einstein-Szilard Refrigerators 65 Science versus Antiscience? 71 The Amateur Scientist 77 Mathematical Recreations 80 Reviews and Commentaries 83 Working Knowledge: Man-Made Snow 91