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Articles in Feb, 2007 issue of Natural History

• Bug life
  by Graciela Flores
• Ozark mushrooms: bedecked with resilient plants, an Arkansas cliff top overlooks fantastic formations known as pedestal rocks
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Leslie Martinez: coordinator, Sleepover Program
• Darwin's progress
  by Dwight Brown
• Silent alarm
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Human Anatomy: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Out to dry
  by Graciela Flores
• Family ties: unexpected social behavior in an improbable arachnid, the whip spider
  by Linda S. Rayor
• Dedicated to Dunham
• Podcast news
• Hominid time machine
  by Peter Brown
• The beast of kings
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Richter's Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Heart of the matter
  by Erin Espelie
• But did they do it?
  by Corey Binns
• The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Cloudmakers
  by Rebecca Kessler
• Eight arms, with attitude: octopuses count playfulness, personality, and practical intelligence among their leading character traits
  by Jennifer A. Mather
• I spy a butterfly! www.amnh.org
• Elephant's thermostat
  by Jonathan Turetsky
• Squid secrets
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Not seeing is believing: the existence of dark matter is confirmed—again
  by Charles Liu
• DMZ paradox
  by Howard S. Edelstein
• Faces of the human past: science and art combine to create a new portrait gallery of our hominid heritage
  by Richard Milner
• AMNH to confer doctoral degrees
• Small is beautiful
• Light on the dark
  by Fletcher Downey
• Vitriphagy
  by Graciela Flores
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• Taking turns
  by Matthew Brzostowski
• Little neutral ones: in John Updike's memorable description, "The earth is just a silly ball/To them, through which they simply pass."
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Of arms and the brain
  by Robert Anderson