Issue 5
Fall 2003

Editor in Chief
Colin McCormick

Managing Editor
Jessica Palmer

Art Director
Una Ren

Copy Editor
Kira O'Day

Editors
Carol Hunter
Heidi Ledford
Kira O'Day
Christopher Weber

Web Editor
Tony Le

Special Thanks
Keay Davidson

Printer
Sundance Press

22 Goodbye, Cyclotron Road?

Lights out on the Hill

by Chris Weber

28 An Evening in the Garden

BSR checks out Berkeley's bloomers

by Letty Brown

34 Natural Solutions

Berkeley green makes toxins clean

by Carol Hunter

6 Gene Hunters
Shall I compare thee to a hairy ape?

8 A Living Carbon Reservoir
Ironing out global warming

9 Two Ways to Six Legs
Getting buggy with it

11 Tracking Bioterror
When it comes to anthrax, size does matter

42 Faulty Towers
Cal braces for the big one


by Jessica Marshall

13 Science Finds its PloS in the Sun
by Ben Gutman

And He Changes Diapers

Careening Cockroaches

Vanishing Polar Bears

Giants in the Mist

16 Profile: Goldberg Variations
At home in two cultures

18 Quanta
(heard on campus)

19 Baytech Beat
Cal innovators strut their stuff

21 Book Review
My Life in Science

48 The Back Page
Letter from the field