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Articles in Dec, 2008 issue of Natural History

• Critical masses: the natural explanation
  by Erin Espelie
• Acid indigestion
  by Jennifer Hauenstein
• Desert menu
  by Robert Anderson
• How to harvest a harvester
  by Graciela Flores
• Creative destruction
  by Stephan Reebs
• Games fishes play
  by Stephan Reebs
• More before less
  by Stephan Reebs
• The power of ten
  by Stephan Reebs
• Andean high life
  by Harvey Leifert
• Copepods cope with climate change
  by Stephan Reebs
• Picky mouse club
  by Stephan Reebs
• Holy ground
  by Graciela Flores
• Sticky fingers: fingerprints are one of the oldest biometric measures of identity. What do we actually know about them?
  by Olivia Judson
• The art of bones: British artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, who sparked dinosaur mania in the nineteenth century, still influences how natural history museums represent prehistoric life today
  by Robert McCracken Peck
• Dark energy crisis: a new NASA mission may shed light on dark energy, but at the cost of Einstein's theory of general relativity
  by Donald Goldsmith
• Rain bird: dispersing seeds and drawing tourists, a sought-after bird helps preserve a forest in Honduras
  by David L. Anderson
• For the Coffee Table
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Disappearing World: 101 of the Earth's Most Extraordinary and Endangered Places
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Owls of North America
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Egypt's Sunken Treasures
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• A Fragile Balance: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Skylog
  by Joe Rao
• Germ fanfare: new OLogy toy line from AMNH wins Dr. Toy awards
• A stone diary
• Local forecast or long-term trend?
• At the Museum: American Museum of Natural History
• Killer snowballs
  by Robert L. Pitman