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Saturn and Titan on the Eve of Cassini-Huygens,
Jonathan I. Lunine
"Faster, better, cheaper" is NASA's new mantra. But for a complex
system such as Saturn and its moons, cheapest is not always
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Throw the Book at 'Em, Thomas S. Statler
Buchangst pervades college astronomy. Instructors fret that
no textbook is quite right, authors and publishers get shot
down when they try to innovate, students count the days 'til
they can sell back their unfriendly tomes. But none of this
is going to change unless we make it happen. |
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Reforming
Graduate Education, Zodiac Webster
Astronomers have begun to rethink graduate education, and none
too soon. Grad schools provide woefully incomplete preparation
for the jobs that most young astronomers wind up in. Yet graduate
programs are dragging their heels on making changes. |
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Living the Dilbert
Life, Andrea E. Schweitzer
Departments and professional societies support students in this
tight job market with practical advice. But students need more
than workshops on résumé-writing. They also need
acknowledgment that giving up the dream of an academic career
involves a process of grieving. |
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You
Have a Degree in What? Claude Rousseau
"Just one word: astrophysics." Hopefully this isn't the advice
that parental friends are giving today's college graduates at
poolside cocktail parties. The job market for astronomers is
so bad that it is driving established scientists out of the
field. But the astronomy degree can be excellent preparation
for many careers other than research. |
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Editorial,
George S. Musser
The
UFO conspiracy buffs were right. |
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Letters to the Editor |
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Society News |
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Echoes of the Past, Katherine Bracher
This month, observers in the Northern and Southern hemispheres
will catch their last naked-eye glimpses of comet Hale-Bopp.
What will people say of it in 40 years? |
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World
Beat: Vietnam, Nguyen Dinh Huan
After a half-century of war and isolation, Vietnam is rejoining
the international community. Its astronomers have not been left
behind. |
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Newswire, Leo P. Connolly
Surveyor-ing Mars; remembering the asteroid; calling all archaeoastronomy
professors. |
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Black
Holes to Blackboards, Jeffrey F. Lockwood
When
your students ask, Why does the Sun shine? tell them to go out
and buy the CD. |
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Guest
Observer, James C. White II
Lapping
up the Milky Way |
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SkyChart and SkyTalk, Robert A. Garfinkle |
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Book Review, Ben Bova
The Case for Mars by Robert Zubrin. The Planet Mars by William
Sheehan. The Rivers of Mars by Piers Bizony. The Hunt for Life
on Mars by Donald Goldsmith. Destination Mars by Martin Caidin,
Jay Barbree, and Susan Wright. Water on Mars by Michael Carr.
Terraforming by Martyn Fogg. The Biological Universe by Steven
J. Dick. |
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Last Page, George S. Musser and Bonnie
D. Schulkin
The Mercury Index |
