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  1. Creativity: The Human Resource

  2. Jovian Moon Maps

  3. Comment: Leaving Home: Or How a Government Turns a Peaceful Citizen into a Protester

  4. Books

  5. Back Matter

  6. Front Matter

  7. Skylab: Seeking a Handle

  8. Tapping Heavy Crude: A Forgotten Resource

  9. Ionized Coating for the Milky Way

  10. The Annual Eastern (Choke) Inversion

  11. Easing out Radical Mastectomies

  12. Two, Two: Two Quasars in One

    Gravity's ability to bend light (an effect predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity) has been confirmed many times. What had not been observed was the more extreme case deflection of light by a gravitational field so strong that it acts as a lens on the line of sight. But now astronomers believe they have found the first evidence for just such a gravitational lens.