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In the December 5 Issue:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Climate might be right for a deal: Copenhagen negotiations will take steps toward a climate-stabilizing treaty
- Botanical Whales: Adventures in the Tortugas reveal that seagrass fields need saving too
- Breaking the Speed Limit: Studies examine physiology and technology to better foresee the ultimate edge of human performance
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Two experimental drugs stop many cases of chronic myeloid leukemia that are resistant to the drug imatinib (Gleevec). (p. 371)
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A South American butterfly is one of the few animal species that seems to have arisen via the supposedly rare path of crossing two older species. (p. 371)
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Chemists have fashioned tiny dots of carbon that glow in response to light. (p. 372)
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Already known to cause lung cancer, asbestos has now been associated with three autoimmune diseases. (p. 372)
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The collaborative efforts of two common gut microbes could increase the calories that a person extracts from food and store as fat, a study in mice suggests. (p. 373)
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Newly unearthed fossils of a 110-million-year-old bolster the notion that all modern birds evolved from aquatic ancestors. (p. 373)
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Although often prescribed for people with anorexia nervosa, the popular antidepressant medication Prozac offers no better protection against the potentially fatal eating disorder than placebo pills do. (p. 374)
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Researchers have forged solid glass from carbon dioxide. (p. 374)
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New studies probe some of the many ways, both good and bad, that children and teenagers use the Internet and adapt to online communication. (p. 376)
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Newly discovered fossils from Greenland, as well as a reexamination of those of previously known creatures, are providing researchers with additional insights into ancient vertebrates' move from water to land. (p. 379)
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Astronomers have identified a type of supernova as the main source of space dust. (p. 381)
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In healthy infants, even ozone concentrations well below those allowed by federal law trigger asthmalike symptoms. (p. 381)
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Antipsychotic-drug treatment of children and teenagers seen by office-based physicians increased dramatically between 1993 and 2002. (p. 381)
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A surprising amount of genetic diversity characterized Neandertals. (p. 381)
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New observations add to the evidence that an image of a planetary-mass object discovered beyond the solar system is not that of a bona fide planet. (p. 382)
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Low cabin pressure aboard aircraft is not to blame for the rare but dangerous blood clots that some passengers get during long flights. (p. 382)
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Large volumes of water may occasionally flow between the lakes that lie deep beneath Antarctica's kilometers-thick ice sheet. (p. 382)
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Lab and field tests hint that dairy whey, a lactose-rich by-product of the dairy industry, could be used to clean up underground water supplies tainted by the solvent trichloroethylene. (p. 382)
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