New Scan: Spotty Defense. / Mark Alpert. -- A digital Slice of Pi. / W. Wayt Gibbs. -- A Man, a Plan, Spam.

/ Wendy M. Grossman. -- The Race Card. / Carol Ezzell. -- Sounding Off. / Krista West. -- Interstellar

Pelting. / George Musser. -- Pulling the lever. / Charles Choi. -- Not So Happy Together. / Philip Yam. -- A

face in the Car Crowd. / Philip Yam. -- Seeing Red. / Charles Choi. -- Insulin From Bone Marrow. / Philip Yam.

-- Packing `Em On. / JR Minkel. -- Reducing Crime. / Rodger Doyle. -- X-ray Proofing. / Steven Ashley. -- Make

your own Rules. / Gary Stix. -- Show Me The Body. / Michael Shermer. -- Wired Superstrings. / Gary Stix. --

Parallel Universes. / Max Tegmark. -- Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes. / Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward

M. Hubbard. -- Scale-Free Networks. / Albert Laszlo Barabasi and Eric Bonabeau. -- The Iceman Reconsidered. /

James H. Dickson, Klaus Oeggl and Linda L. Handley. -- The Orphan Drug Backlash. / Thomas Maeder. -- Catch a

Wave. / Mark Fischetti. -- Desert Metropolis. / Gary Stix. -- Math`s Most Wanted. / Kristin Leutwyler. --

Bounded Regrets. / Dennis E. Shasha. -- Doing What Comes Unnaturally. / Steve Mirsky. -- Why do Computers

crash?. / R. L. Feigenbaum. -- What causes thunder?. / Tom Blighes.