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Volume 23, No. 3 March 1998

A Publication of the Materials Research Society MATERIALS FOR SPORTS Materials for Sports F.H. Froes, Guest Editor (with contributions by S. Haake, S. Fagg, K. Tabeshfar, and X. Velay) Material Matters: Performance Standards Governing New Materials for Sports J.N. Gelberg Titanium Golf Clubs C. Shira and F.H. Froes Education Exchange: Independent-Study Course Examines Materials in Tennis Rackets and Hockey Sticks E.M. Lenoe The Role of Materials in the Design of an Improved Cricket Bat C. Grant Historical Note: Bicycles Roll Along from Wooden Wagon Wheel to Alloy Tubing C.J. McMahon, Jr. Modeling Bicycle-Rider Vibrations: Implications for Materials Selection T.T. Gribb, F.J. Worzala, and G.W. Gribb   MRS NEWS 1997 Fall Meeting Reflects Popularity and Breadth of MRS Meetings Charles B. Duke Receives 1997 Woody Award MRS Invites Nominations for the Von Hippel Award, Turnbull Lectureship, and MRS Medal Congressional Fellow Brian Holloway Illuminates Materials Issues in Washington Policy Anne Mayes Named Outstanding Young Investigator for Work on Macromolecules Plenary Speaker Lockwood to Address Materials Aspect of Volcanoes at MRS Spring Meeting ABSTRACTS Abstracts for May 1998 Journal of Materials Research   DEPARTMENTS Material Matters What Are the Options for Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium? W. Stoll Letters to the Editor Research/Researchers Washington News Public Affairs Forum Resources Library Mössbauer Spectroscopy Applied to Magnetism and Materials Science, Vol. 2, G.J. Long and F. Grandjean, eds., reviewed by G. Le Caër; Current Opinion in Solid State Materials Science, A.K. Cheetham, M.S. Dresselhaus, and J.M. Thomas, eds., reviewed by P. Calvert; Forward Recoil Spectrometry: Applications to Hydrogen Determination in Solids, J. Tirira, Y. Serruys, and P. Trocellier, reviewed by K-P. Lieb Advertisers in This Issue Calendar Classified Posterminaries

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