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Featured in the Fall 2002 Issue
Vol. 15, No. 3

FEATURES

Mosquitoes, DDT, and Human Health
J. Gordon Edwards, Ph.D.
A leading entomologist describes the death and suffering caused
by insect-borne diseases, and tells why we must bring back DDT.

To Control Malaria, We Need DDT
A malaria-control specialist explains why house-spraying with
DDT is the only effective method for combatting malaria today.

9,000-Year-Old Cities Beneath the Gulf of Cambay?
Ramtanu Maitra
Dated artifacts and sonar scans suggest the existence of
two lost cities off the west coast of India, larger than Boston
and twice as old as ancient Sumer.

The Method of Language Discovery
The Concept of Indo-European Philology
Laurence Hecht

Gauss and Weber’s Creation of the Absolute System of Units in Physics
A.K.T. Assis, K. Reich, and K.H. Wiederkehr
A specialist in Weber’s electrodynamics, and leading biographers of Weber and Gauss, tell how Gauss’s 1832 work in magnetism changed physics.

(Left) Gauss and Weber's electrodynamometer. (Laurence Hecht)

NEWS DEPARTMENTS

IN MEMORIAM
Roy Vinson, Inventor of Magnetrain, and Julia Vinson
Laurence Hecht

ASTRONOMY REPORT
An Opening in Astronomy
David Cherry

SPACE
THE 2002 WORLD SPACE CONGRESS
Economic Collapse Threatens Prospects for Space Exploration
Marsha Freeman

EDITORIAL
Reverend Moon and the‘Unity of Sciences’ Cult
Laurence Hecht

LETTERS

NEWS BRIEFS

VIEWPOINT
Mosquito Spraying Essential To Keep America Healthy
Joseph M. Conlon

BOOKS
Great Art Requires More Than Optical Technology
Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Technique of the Old Masters
by David Hockney, Reviewed by Karel Vereycken

How the Atomic Space Ship Bit the Dust Project Orion
by George Dyson, Reviewed by Marsha Freeman

A nuclear-powered space vehicle. (NASA)

Adrift in Academia
Sea Drift: Rafting Adventures in the Wake of Kon Tiki
by P.J. Capelotti, Reviewed by Richard Sanders

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