About seven weeks before each is-sue's deadline, the American Sci-entist staff gathers for what we call an issue-planning meeting. In truth, by that point the editors have decided the contents of the upcoming issue and who will be responsible for what. So it's really a meeting to describe each column and article to the assembly-to murmurs (we hope) of approval. Often the theme of this essay becomes apparent at that meeting. The June 19 rendition of this six-times-a-year ritual turned up cones.
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