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Articles in May 2005 issue of National Geographic

• Explorer: Sundays at 8 P.M. ET/PT.(OnScreen & Online)
• Fossil wars: dispatch from the front lines: woolly mammoths went extinct thousands of years ago, but their tusks, like this one dug up in Siberia, are part of a growing international trade in fossils that's as lucrative as it is controversial.
  by Simons, Lewis M.
• A mushrooming concern: wild bounty spawns a new crop of gatherers.(MYCOLOGY)
  by Stutz, Bruce
• Geographica: Geo Quiz "marking the year".(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Dickson, Paul W., Jr.
• Mayday! May 31-June 1, 8 P.M. ET/PT.(OnScreen & Online)
• State of rock.(AMERICAN LANDSCAPES)
  by Edwards, Mike
• Who's your doggy? Research suggests truth behind common observation.(PSYCHOLOGY)(Brief Article)
  by Kaufmann, Carol
• Visions of Earth.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Chatterjee, Subir
• Poison.(healing aspects of poisonous substances)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
  by Johns, Chris
• 12 toxic tales: the poison paradox too much can kill; a little can cure.(Cover Story)
  by Newman, Cathy
• What is it?(GEOGRAPHICA)(tortoise)(Brief Article)
  by Dangerfield, Whitney
• ZipUSA: hot coffee, Mississippi.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Dvorak, Ales; Cooper, Vickie
• A bit too flashy.(CORAL REEF COLOR)
  by Zackowitz, Margaret G.
• Nobel efforts.(Who Knew?; Albert Einstein)(Brief Article)
  by Schultz, Heidi
• Surfing Brazil's pororoca: river surfers ride the nearly endless wave.(GEOGRAPHY)(Brief Article)
  by Bourne, Joel
• Italy before the Romans.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Kane, Victoria Mastro
• 3 characters.(PICKS)
  by Cathy
• Outside player: working in a patent office can be a good thing.(PHYSICS)(Albert Einstein)
  by Achenbach, Joel
• The platypus is stranger than we thought.(ANIMAL KINGDOM)(Brief Article)
• Growing up cheetah.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Mammoser, Scott
• Poisons in your pantry.(DON'T TRY IT AT HOME)(Brief Article)
• Poison.(WORLDWIDE)
• An unmade bed may help you breathe easier.(HEALTH)(dust mites)(Brief Article)
• Among the Berbers.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Santos, Evan Dale; Van Valkenburg, Steven G.
• Far-out visions.(BEYOND THE BIG BANG)
• coral reef color.(WORLDWIDE)(Brief Article)
• Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition hut is being conserved.(PRESERVATION)(Brief Article)
• Yosemite--Grace under pressure.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Morales, Estefani; Headley, Otis; Good, Ron; Zartman, Benjamin
• Calendar.(Behind the Scenes)(Calendar)
• 26306: where the crime clock never stops FBI.(ZipUSA)
  by Meyer, E. Y.
• An extremely long way down.(KRUBERA CAVE)(Brief Article)
• A meteorite has been found on Mars.(SPACE)(Brief Article)
• Caffeine.(Forum)(Letter to the Editor)
  by Hipps, John G.; O; '; Rourke, Marie; Kuckelman, Kristin A.; Zakrasek, Beth Burgamy; James, Jack E.; Lane, James D.; Gutteridge, Becky
• The ultimate family tree.(GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT)(using DNA samples to trace the ancestral migratory routes)(Brief Article)
• Beyond the big bang Einstein's evolving universe.(physics)(Biography)
  by Bartusiak, Marcia
• Flying high, Siberian style: why getting there wasn't half the fun.(INTERNATIONAL FOSSIL TRADE)(Brief Article)
• The first Americans? Discovery could rewrite history of human migration.(ARCHAEOLOGY)
  by Shea, Neil
• Visions of earth: West of Great Exuma Island, Bahamas.(THROUGH A PHOTOGRAPHER'S EYE)(Brief Article)
  by Andrefouet, Serge; Muller-Karger, Frank
• Extraterrestrial: Monday, May 30 9 P.M. ET/PT.(OnScreen & Online)
• One fish two fish red fish blue fish: why are coral reefs so colorful?
  by Kaufman, Les
• My seven: medicines that changed the world.(THE WORLD BY NUMBERS)
  by Swann, John
• Great green north: was the icy Arctic once a warm soup of life?(CLIMATE)
  by Appenzeller, Tim