Natural History

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Articles in Feb 2004 issue of Natural History

• Nursing wounds - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by JoAnne D. Whitney
• Swift lift - Samplings; central Andes - Brief Article
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal - Book Review
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Ties that bind - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Iain C. Wilkie
• Cornshine - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Graciela Flores
• Surviving the Extremes: a Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance - Book Review
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Cramped quarters - Samplings; study of zoo animal behavior - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Great masses from little ripples grew: the organization of matter into superclusters and voids began with subatomic variations in density during the earliest moments after the big bang - Universe
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History - Book Review
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Deep down under - Samplings; reservoirs of nitrogen discovered beneath western United States - Brief Article
  by Avis Lang
• The wild man of Samoa: a tale from the graveyard of strangers - Field Notes
  by Joseph Kennedy
• Clicks are for kids - nature.net
  by Robert Anderson
• Death by gluttony - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Like water off a beetle's back: an African insect could show how to wring moisture from the fog—and let the sun shine on cloudy airports - Biomechanics
  by Adam Summers
• Our stormy sun: what do refrigerator magnets, northern lights, and solar flares have in common? - Out There
  by Charles Liu
• Save a wolf, save a tree - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• A garden of benthic delights - The Natural Moment; filmmaker Stephen Low films in Gulf of Mexico - Brief Article
  by Erin Espelie
• The sunspot chronicles - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Joomi Kim
• Blossoms of ice: these delicate "flowers" sprout only in winter, but you won't find them catalogued in any herbal - Excerpt
  by D. Bruce Means
• Living with nature: everyday actions to sustain our planet - At the museum: American Museum of Natural History
• Nasty, brutish, and short - Up Front
  by Peter Brown
• Watered-down fish - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Fighting HIV with HIV: in its zeal to keep competing viruses out of a cell it controls, the AIDS virus may have exposed its own vulnerability - Excerpt
  by T.V. Rajan
• Exploratorium/AMNH: play and learn - At the museum: American Museum of Natural History
• Talking trash - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Frog find - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Something fishy in the nest: in many fish species, dad does the caregiving. But some sneaky bluegill males have ways of avoiding the responsibilities of fatherhood - Excerpt
  by Bryan D. Neff
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History - Calendar
• A better mouse trap? - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• "You gotta have skin" - Samplings - Brief Article
  by Stephan Reebs
• Why must the poor be sick? Paul Farmer's exhortations sound familiar, and hopelessly idealistic, until you realize they are backed up by evidence and practical action - Book Review
  by Jeffrey D. Sachs