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Articles in Dec, 2003 issue of Natural History

• Many moons
  by Stephan Reebs
• Giving cranes a lift: a Mississippi refuge preserves a bird and its habitat
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• On thin ice
  by Kirsten Weir
• Mars on my mind
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• The best defense?
  by Thomas Smilie
• Uphill flight: a partridge's ability to climb overhanging slopes might explain how dinosaurs took to the skies
  by Adam Summers
• Star baby: T Tauri shows that a stellar nursery can be a rough-and-tumble place to live
  by Charles Liu
• When the bough doesn't break
  by Takashi Okuyama
• What became of the water on Mars? This January, a cluster of spacecraft will converge on the Red Planet, probing for clues to the mysterious but unmistakable role of water in its past
  by Michael H. Carr
• The sky in December and January
  by Joe Rao
• Small is powerful
  by Stephan Reebs
• The breadfruit trail: the wild ancestors of a staple food illuminate human migrations in the Pacific islands
  by Nyree J.C. Zerega
• Museum events
• Universal clock
  by David G. King
• Get in the zone with the mattress topper that molds to your body's contours: the Memory Foam Ultra mattress topper is cut into a grid pattern combining six different zones for variable support and a better night's sleep
• Ah … heaven!
  by Erin Espelie
• Fair is fair
  by Stephan Reebs
• Moonlighting
  by William J. Rihn
• Good whale hunting: two tantalizing Russian reports take the author on a quest to the Antarctic, in search of two previously unrecognized kinds of killer whale
  by Robert L. Pitman
• For the coffee table
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Save the earth
  by Stephan Reebs
• Underwater urbanites: sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps are the only known marine animals to live in colonies that resemble the societies of bees and wasps
  by J. Emmett Duffy
• Dr. Sacha Spector on saving "the other 99 percent"
• Once more, to Mars!
  by Peter Brown
• The mouse that roared
  by Stephan Reebs
• A Celebration of the World's Barrier Islands
• Food fight
  by Stanley A. Freed
• Gravity in reverse: the tale of Albert Einstein's "greatest blunder"
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
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