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	Issue 6 Spring 2004	Letter From the Editor

24 Beyond the Ivory Tower Cal academics rush in where Pharma fears to tread by Letty Brown	33 Creature Comforts Field Station provides a window on the wild by Annaliese Beery	38 The Ground Beneath Your Feet Exposing the states of endangered soils by Charlie Koven

8 Lunar Magnetism Modeling the Moon's missing dynamo 9 Rocky Mountain High Meadow warming offers a sneak peek at climate change 10 The Low Ambitions of Mr. SQUID Are weak magnets the future of MRI? 11 Out of Africa Tracing the origins of man 13 Trampling Out a Vintage Xylella incites a viticultural vendetta 15 Double, Double, Coil and Trouble Unraveling your knotty DNA

47 Berkeley Lab up for Grabs? LBL may be in for new management by Steve Bodzin	19 Access Denied Are tightened security measures harming science at Cal? Ghost Detectors in the Sky Making Sense of Scents Green Energy from Mutant Algae? Incoming!

18 Book Review Experimental Mathematics: Plausible Reasoning in the 21st Century 37 Letter from the Field Life in the Atacama Desert 43 Profile: Adam Arkin Life, in theory 50 Quanta (Heard on campus) 51 The Back Page Looking for life in very cold places