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Articles in November 2002 issue of National Geographic

• Cities: irresistible lure for dreamers, doers, and the desperate, urban areas will soon hold half the world's people. How they adapt will help define the 21st century.
  by Zwingle, Erla
• It's a Mola: it's a gigantic swimming head its skin is like sandpaper it's covered in parasites. (Field Dispatch The Open Ocean).
  by Steinberg, Jennifer
• Unmasking skin: a silicone mask held by the woman who wears the same face captures the look, almost the feel, of human skin. But no simulation can capture the complexity of the body's largest organ--the one that keeps us in touch with the world.
  by Swerdlow, Joel L.
• Weapons of mass destruction: an ominous new chapter opens on the twentieth century's ugliest legacy.
  by Simons, Lewis M.
• A town of their own: 68010. (Zip USA).(Boys Town, Nebraska)
  by Steinberg, Jennifer
• Kings of the hill? Well, yes and no. With fangs bared and gums blazing, a male gelada looks tough enough. But in the Ethiopian highlands make no mistake: the queens are in charge.(primates native to Ethiopia)
  by Morell, Virginia