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Jeffrey F. Williams
HaloSource Corporation
3005 First Avenue, Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98121-1010
Web site: http://www.halosource.com/

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 11, September 11, 1999, p. 170. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.