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  1. Earth

    Hunting Prehistoric Hurricanes

    Storm-tossed sand offers a record of ancient cyclones.

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  2. Humans

    From the November 5, 1932, issue

    FIELD MUSEUM VISITORS SEE BIT OF ABYSSINIA Visitors to Chicago can make an effortless side trip to the wilds of Abyssinia by walking down the Carl Akeley Memorial Hall of African Animals in the Museum of Natural History. At the end, a remarkable new group of African mammals has been arranged so as to give […]

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  3. Archaeology

    Digging into Ancient Texts

    For both scholars and amateur archaeologists, the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Web site offers fascinating glimpses of a distant past. Visitors can view images of thousands of carefully catalogued cuneiform tablets from Mesopotamia. The texts include early creation myths, legal codes, medical prescriptions, and recipes for beer. Many are more mundane–ledgers, deeds, receipts, and lists […]

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  4. 19030

    Although we seldom have the deep and persistent snowfields needed to support watermelon snow in the spring, I did note it a couple of springs ago in persistent snowdrifts in and near tree shelterbelts in the high plains of northwest Kansas. One must be cautious of red snow in this area, however, because we occasionally […]

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  5. Red Snow, Green Snow

    It's truly spring when those last white drifts go technicolor as algae bloom in the snow.

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  6. Humans

    Motor City hosts top science fair winners

    The 2000 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair winners were announced in Detroit.

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  7. Bdelloids: No sex for over 40 million years

    Researchers find the strongest evidence yet for creatures that have evolved asexually for millions of years.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Two studies offer some cell-phone cautions

    A British review of research gave cell-phone safety a guarded endorsement, while new findings indicate that radiation from older cell phones can trigger a stress-response gene, at least in animals.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Drug combination may fight breast cancer

    Retinoic acid, when combined with a drug that reverses a process called methylation in breast tumor cells, may awaken a key cancer-fighting gene.

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  10. Astronomy

    Astronomers rediscover long-lost asteroid

    After 89 years of playing a cosmic version of Where's Waldo?, astronomers have located a long-lost asteroid named Albert.

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  11. Earth

    Prescribed fire burns out of control

    A fire set by the National Park Service to clear underbrush burned out of control, consuming more than 44,000 acres around Los Alamos, N.M.

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  12. Grade-Schoolers Grow into Sleep Loss

    By the sixth grade, many middle-class children may experience substantial sleep deprivation that has the potential to interfere with their ability to learn and pay attention.

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