Volume 45, Number 3, Fall 1997

Main Stories:

The False Alarm and Its Coverage Changed a Policy by Howard J. Lewis

Cancer-Cure Rivals Fought for Position on Media Battlefield by Michael Waldholz

Publishers Seize the High Ground . . . With Editors' Aid by Ellis Rubenstein

How One Writer Found His Passage to Eden -- Via A Fulbright Grant by Dan Drollette

1997 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on the Ultra-Bizarre

'Technology Review' Has Major Shakeup, Gets Mixed Notices

When Scientists Meet the Press: Two UK Accounts

Why Science Is Like The Stock Market: Who Understands It? by Dave Barry

Historical Classics in Science Writing -- Herodotus to Sagan by Lee Edson


Departments:

President's Letter by Richard Harris

The Free Lance by Tabitha M. Powledge

NASW Annual Meeting Workshops Scheduled

NASW Medal Honors Four for their Reporting on Science in Society

CASW: What It Is and What It Does by Jerry E. Bishop

How NASW Handles Internet Privacy on its Listserves by Robert Finn

Joe Palca Honored for Winning ACS Grady-Stack Award

Letters

Notices

Greenberg Retires as Editor of S&GR

Garrett Receives Major DCDP Award

Our Gang

Trade Publishers Face Challenge from New Web Site

New Members

Books By and For Members by Ruth Winter


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