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Huib J. Bakker
FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics
Kruislaan 407
1098 SJ Amsterdam
Netherlands

Abraham Nitzan
Tel Aviv University
Sackler Faculty of Science
School of Chemistry
Tel Aviv 69978
Israel

John C. Tully
Yale University
Chemistry Department
SCL 242
New Haven, CT 06520

Sander Woutersen
Max-Born-Institut
Max-Born-Strab 3 2A
12489 Berlin
Germany

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 23, December 4, 1999, p. 358. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.