A new, much-touted generation of antipsychotic drugs generally yields no more improvement in people with schizophrenia than an older, cheaper antipsychotic medication does. (p. 195)

Using road salt to clear icy highways in the northeastern United States is increasingly tainting streams throughout the region. (p. 195)

A comparison of images taken just a few years apart by a Mars orbiting spacecraft reveals recent landslides, freshly carved gullies, and a 20-meter-wide crater gouged in the planet's surface no earlier than 25 years ago. (p. 196)

The decline in the solar radiation reaching Earth's surface in the latter half of the 20th century turns out to have been mostly a regional phenomenon. (p. 196)

Honeybees that defend their colonies by killing wasps with body heat come within 5 degrees C of cooking themselves in the process. (p. 197)

Children can eliminate their bodies' loads of agricultural pesticides by eating organically grown products. (p. 197)

Analyses of fossilized plant remnants collected by pack rats reveal that the Grand Canyon was much cooler than previously thought during the latter part of the last ice age. (p. 198)

Digital mammography can detect up to one-fourth more cancers than traditional film mammography can in women who are under 50, haven't gone through menopause, or who have dense breast tissue. (p. 198)

In northern Thailand, parents send one or more of their daughters off to become prostitutes so that the girls will make enough money to improve the local status of their families, a finding with implications for programs aimed at stopping child prostitution. (p. 200)

Now that breeders have created thousands of new ornamental-flower varieties, scientists are turning their attention to restoring the fragrances that fell victim to the process. (p. 202)

NASA late last month shut down one of the aging Hubble Space Telescope's three gyros in an effort to extend its life. (p. 205)

A 3-month-old California condor chick, one of only four of this highly endangered species born in the wild this year, succumbed to a West Nile virus infection. (p. 205)

African subsistence farmers are far likelier to leverage rainfall forecasts into better crop yields after attending workshops explaining the basis for the rain predictions. (p. 205)

An examination of New York City death records from early last century suggests that the world's deadliest flu virus was on the loose in New York several months before it exploded into the 1918-1919 global pandemic. (p. 205)

New observations of Ceres, the largest known asteroid, hint that frozen water may account for as much as 25 percent of its interior. (p. 206)

Two genes already known to influence brain size have undergone relatively recent, survival-enhancing modifications in people and appear to be still evolving. (p. 206)

Sealed bags containing liquid detergent for single loads of laundry may be convenient, but if squeezed, they're liable to burst and spray their caustic contents into people's eyes. (p. 206)

A major study has found that doctors don't routinely discuss a child's weight problems with the family, and that the younger the child the less likely the topic will come up. (p. 206)

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