Well, no, not everything, not really. That's the sort of winking come-on we magazine editors regularly use to clobber the newsstand shopper over the head and make sure he leaves the store with our fine product under his arm. Perhaps you are reading these words because our ploy worked; if so, I assure you that although you will not learn everything in these pages (at leastrnnot this month), you will be satisfied with the amount of learning your S4·99 has bought. The feature package that those seductive words advertise, which starts on page 51, is an 18-page blowout of our regular "Instant Expert" section, where we promise to fully enlighten you-rn"everything you need to know, nothing you don't"-on an absurdly complicated, cutting-edge scientific topic, over the span of just two pages. Senior associate editor Martha Harbison is the creator and curator of that franchise, and this month she deserves special praise for rising to a substantially more ambitious standard of efficiency. She and her writers manage to explain how to turn skin cells into stem cells in just a quarter of a page!
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