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Contributors: Good Humor
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The Big Question: Why Are Zombies the Hot Metaphor?
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Editor’s Note: A Word from the iEditor
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Letters: Of Monuments and Men
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Essay: Crash Course
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Golomb’s Gambits: Merging Words
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Wholly Hopkins: Matters of note from around Johns Hopkins 18 Psychiatry: Why can’t some people throw anything away? 19 Education: New school colors just the beginning
20 Center for a Livable Future: Farming for urban tilapia 22 Museums: Zelda the painter
24 Nursing: Let nurses fill the gap
25 Applied Physics Laboratory: Low-tech sleuthing
27 Books: A knock on the head, and jazz in wartime Paris
28 Students: Interns learn from rougher lives
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Alumni News & Notes
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Golomb’s Solutions
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How To: Win a Nobel Prize
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