SCIENCEWEEK - PART A

December 5, 2003

Vol. 7 Number 49A

Contents:

1. Origin of Life: Models of Primitive Cellular Compartments
2. Socio-Economic Science: On Human Altruism
3. Medical Biology: Extra-Neural Prion Protein in Brain Disease
4. Theoretical Physics: On the Weakness of Gravity
5. Geophysics: Tidal Stress, Water Wells, and Earthquakes
6. History of Physics: On Astrophysical Understanding

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