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Articles in Dec, 2007 issue of Natural History

• Stand up straight
  by C. Loring Brace
• Camels 0, comet 1
  by Harvey Leifert
• The Pompeii Pop-Up
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Saturdays in winter: we're all wet!
• Outward bound
  by Robert Anderson
• Hiber nation: understanding how creatures put their lives on hold could yield therapies for a variety of human ills
  by Olivia Judson
• Shells
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Hail from the Chief
  by Vittorio Maestro
• On the trail of a snail
  by Rebecca Kessler
• The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Rethinking Velociraptor: new study finds they had feathers
• Translation necessary
  by Carl F. Welser
• Earlier birds
  by Stephan Reebs
• Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Who's Watching Whom?
  by Barbie Bischof
• A fluke of foresight
  by Stephan Reebs
• At a loss for words: the Native-American language Salish-Pend d'Oreille is on the brink of disappearing. More than half the world's 6,000 languages will be gone by the end of the century
  by Sarah Grey Thomason
• Erratum
• Lynx jinx
  by Erin Espelie
• Did skimming fit the bill?
  by Stephan Reebs
• Florida underground: at a state park riddled with caves, even the Chipola River ducks below the surface
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Holiday spirits
• No translation necessary
  by A.P. Warren
• It's not just the heat
  by Stephan Reebs
• Cartographia: Mapping Civilizations
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Eau de bird
  by Stephan Reebs
• Skating through the ages: skaters have been speeding up over the centuries, thanks to better footwear that allows longer strides for maximum efficiency
  by Adam Summers
• Cutting-edge Science?
  by Laurie Sexton
• Fitness for grandmas
  by Stephan Reebs
• Traces in the sand: Libya boasts ancient ruins built over the Centuries by Berbers, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, and Arabs
  by Mary Knight
• The sky in December 2007 and January 2008
  by Joe Rao
• The croc came back
  by Brendan Borrell
• Baboon heaven: a South African Animal Rehabilitation Center gives an unpopular primate TLC and a chance to return to the wild
  by Michael C. Blumenthal
• A gift from the sea