Fossils come in to land

Things to come.

Nanodevices come to life.

Tragedies to Come

A book on the Mary Bell case acts, once again, as a depressing reminder that psychiatric facilities for children and adolescents are dangerously inadequate and that, until we devote enough resources and mobilise the right skills, further tragedies may still occur. Gitta Sereny's clear and readable book* will help many people, who had only the Press accounts to guide them, to make some sense of ...

PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY: The Relevance of Fossils to Biogeography

■ Abstract Paleobiogeography has advanced as a discipline owing to the increasing utilization of a phylogenetic approach to the study of biogeographic patterns. Coupled with this, there has been an increasing interdigitation of paleontology with molecular systematics because of the development of techniques to analyze ancient DNA and because of the use of sophisticated methods to utilize molecu...

Markets Come to Bits:

* Dept. of Economics and Policy Studies, 400 Decio Hall, University of Notre Dame, and Visiting Scholar, International Center for Advanced Studies, New York University. Please direct all correspondence to [email protected]. I should like to thank the audiences at CarnegieMellon, University of Stirling and the Universidad Republica de Montevideo, Uruguay, and more particularly, Matthias Klaes, D...