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Table of Contents Science Publishing Is Not Perishing Computers Say The Darnedest Things But Only If They Travel First Class Turning Dan Quayle Into A Genius? They Just Might Make It, After All Global Warning Two bimonthly science journals debuted last month. Current Directions in Psychological Science, a publication of the Washington, D.C.-based American Psychological Society, brought out its first issue in February. Also bowing was Surgical Oncology, an international journal coedited b

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Science Publishing Is Not Perishing
Computers Say The Darnedest Things
But Only If They Travel First Class
Turning Dan Quayle Into A Genius?
They Just Might Make It, After All
Global Warning

Two bimonthly science journals debuted last month. Current Directions in Psychological Science, a publication of the Washington, D.C.-based American Psychological Society, brought out its first issue in February. Also bowing was Surgical Oncology, an international journal coedited by surgery professors Courtney M. Townsend Jr. of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Pierre J. Guillou, director of the academic surgical unit at St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. Meanwhile, the venerable Annals of Internal Medicine, published by the Philadelphia-based American College of Physicians, reached a circulation milestone in January. Carolyn Clarick, a fourth-year medical student, became the 100,000th subscriber to the 65-year-old journal.

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