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  1. Earth

    Plowing the Ancient Seas: Iceberg scours found off South Carolina

    Recent sonar surveys off the southeastern United States have detected dozens of broad furrows on the seafloor that were carved by icebergs during the last ice age.

    By Sid Perkins
  2. Health & Medicine

    New Task: Malaria drug might inhibit some cancers

    The antimalarial drug chloroquine may prevent some cancers.

    By Nathan Seppa
  3. Humans

    Letters from the January 5, 2008, issue of Science News

    Missing link “Antibiotics in infancy tied to asthma” (SN: 7/7/07, p. 14) reported a correlation but no confident explanation for the relationship between receiving antibiotics and later developing asthma. “Ulcer bug may prevent asthma” (SN: 10/27/07, p.