The press release was approved by 97% of the members of the Council of the American Physical Society that were present and voting. The members of the Council were: C. Kumar N. Patel, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (President); Robert Schrieffer, Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL; D. Allan Bromley, Write Nuclear Structure Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Burton Richter, Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Judy R. Franz, American Physical Society, College Park, MD; Harry Lustig, American Physical Society, College Park, MD; Benjamin Baderson, Department of Physics, New York Univeristy, New York, NY; James S. Langer, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; David Bodansky, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS: Allen M. Goldman, Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Shirley Jackson, Department of Physics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ; Lu J. Sham, Institute of Pure & Applied Physical Science, University of California, San Diego, CA; Joe Thompson, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM; CHEMICAL PHYSICS: R. Stephen Berry, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; FLUID DYNAMICS: Guenter Ahlers, Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; HIGH POLYMER: Andrew J. Lovinger, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ; MATERIALS PHYSICS: Bill R. Appleton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN; NUCLEAR PHYSICS: Steven E. Koonin, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Peter Paul, Department of Physics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; PHYSICS OF BEAMS: Andrew Sessler, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; PARTICLES & FIELDS: Henry J. Frisch, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Anne Kernan, Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA; PLASMA PHYSICS: Roy Gould, Caltech, Pasadena, CA; PHYSICS & SOCIETY: Barbara Lefi, Physics Today, Santa Barbara, CA; Albert Wattenberg, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Ernest M. Henley, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; EDUCATION: James J. Wynne, IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY; GENERAL COUNCILLORS: Kevin Aylesworth, Cambridge, MA; Arthur Bienenstock, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lab, Stanford, CA; Virginia R. Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; Jolie A. cizewski, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ; Jennifer Cohen, Shippensburg, PA; Charles B. Duke, Xerox Webster Research Center, Webster, NY; Elsa Garmine, Center for Laser Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Jerry P. Gollub, Department of Physics, Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Larua H. Greene, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; William Happer, Physics Department, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; Wick C. Haxton, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Anthony M. Johnson, Department of Physics, NJ Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ; Miles Klein, Loomis Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; Zachary Levine, Gaithersburg, MD; Barbara A. Wilson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; ATOMIC, MOLECULAR & OPTICAL PHYSICS: Joseph L. Dehmer, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL; Gordon Dunn, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; ASTROPHYSICS: Frank C. Jones, Lab for High Energy Astrophysics, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS: Watt W. Webb, School of Applied & Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.