Volume 48, Number 3, Fall 1999

National Association of
Science Writers

 
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE WRITERS, INC.
P.O. Box 294, Greenlawn, N.Y. 11740 516-757-5664
 
Joe Palca, President
Howard J. Lewis,
Editor
Lynne Friedmann,
Managing Editor
Barbara J. Culliton,
Chairman, Advisory Committee
Diane McGurgan,
Administrative Secretary

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Web Addresses
The Elusive Science of Human Behavior: A Writer's Challenge
by Deborah Blum
 
Ohio State Launches Preemptive Strike In Lab-Animal Protest
by Earle Holland
 
A Century of Science: A Hundred Books Or So That Tell Its History
by Philip and Phylis Morrison
 
John Pfeiffer: Remembering A Joyful Man
by Jon Weiner
 
New Drugs May Need A Dose Of Reality In Medical Reporting
by Trudy Lieberman
 
Infidelity Detector And Other Advances Win Ig Nobel Awards
 
'NEJM' Controversy Continues Apace
by Carol Cruzan Morton
 

President's Letter by Joe Palca
 
On The Lists by Bob Finn
 
The Free Lance by Tabitha Powledge
 
$2.2M Knight Grant Adds To MIT Program For Science Writers by Boyce Rensberger
 
My Year As A Knight Fellow Ended Too Soon by Kevin Coughlin
 
Taylor/Blakeslee Fellowships Awarded For Graduate Study
 
'New Scientist' Has The "Last Word" On The Web by Charles Bowen
 
AGU Names Its New Journalism Award For David Perlman
 
Victor Cohn Medical Science Writing Award Created By CASW
 
Rita Baron-Faust Is Recipient Of Rosalynn Carter Journalism Award
 
CASW 1999 Travel Fellowship Awards
 
Regional Groups
 
Our Gang
 
In Memoriam
Fred Troyer
Frank E. Carey
 
Notices From Diane
 
Preliminary Schedule For NASW Workshops In Washington, DC
 
Letters
 
Books By And For Members by Ruth Winter
 
New Members
 

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