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  1. Lopped Off

    Removal of top predators trickles through the food web.

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  2. Life

    Singled Out

    How to study cells, one by one.

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  3. When Birds Go to Town

    Urban settings offer enterprising critters new opportunities — if they can cope with the challenges 

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  4. Humans

    Letters from the September 11, 2004, issue of Science News

    Say what? I don’t think anyone should be surprised that squirrels have figured out how to say “nyah, nyah” to rattlesnakes (“Ultrasound alarms by ground squirrels,” SN: 7/3/04, p. 14: Ultrasound alarms by ground squirrels). After all, it’s what they’ve been saying to cats, dogs, and bird-feeder owning humans for years. R. Kelly WagnerAustin, Texas […]

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  5. Humans

    Collapsing Coastlines

    How Arctic shores are pulled a-sea 

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  6. Humans

    Letters from the August 7, 2004, issue of Science News

    Pot shots Regarding “Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier” (SN: 5/22/04, p. 323: Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier), it seems to me that the stronger the social pressure against using marijuana in a culture, the more likely it will be that those who use it will be troubled, antisocial, or […]

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  7. Humans

    Letters from the April 10, 2004, issue of Science News

    Inaction verbs? Regarding “The Brain’s Word Act: Reading verbs revs up motor cortex areas” (SN: 2/7/04, p. 83: The Brain’s Word Act: Reading verbs revs up motor cortex areas), did the researchers image the brains of disabled people who know the meaning of a verb but can’t perform the action, or of people without any […]

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  8. BOOK REVIEW: Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century by James R. Flynn

    Review by Bruce Bower.

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  9. BOOK REVIEW: Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy

    Review by Alexandra Witze.

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  10. BOOK REVIEW: Dialogues on 2012: Why the World Will Not End by Christopher Keating

    Review by Tina Hesman Saey.

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  11. Part Wild: One Woman’s Journey with a Creature Caught Between the Worlds of Wolves and Dogs by Ceiridwen Terrill

    The cultural history and genetic story of dog domestication is told through the adventures of a wolf-husky hybrid adopted by a science writer. Simon & Schuster, 2011, 274 p., $25

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  12. Science & Society

    Blood Work

    A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution by Holly Tucker.

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