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Articles in March, 2002 issue of Natural History

• On earth and in the heavens
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• The bug that lays the golden eggs: an insect's odd looks are nothing compared with its odd behavior
  by Arja Kaitala
• Rhymes with June and Spoon: how well do you really know the moon?
  by Richard Panek
• New light on UV
• Seeing red…and yellow…and green…and: we owe our appreciation of color—what it is and how we perceive it—to scientists and artists. Do we also have some hungry primate ancestors to thank for the great pleasure it brings us?
  by Philip Ball
• Beastly fun
  by Philippe Germond
• Crusty crustacean
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Say it with bowers: if male bowerbirds build it, females will come. But in the mountains of New Guinea, one species is sending mixed messages
  by J. Albert C. Uy
• Smells like home
  by T.J. Kelleher
• One giant leap for wormkind: some microscopic nematodes jump for their supper
  by Adam Summers
• Crows show the right stuff
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Museum events in March
• Head start
  by Judy Rice
• Animal magnetism
  by Kirsten L Weir
• A short history of muscle-powered machines: what goes around comes around—and does useful work
  by Steven Vogel
• Drought watch
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Before and after
  by Trevor E. Pitcher
• Life lines in the sand: after winter rain, arroyos become the desert's green arteries
  by Peter J. Marchand
• The sky in March
  by Joe Rao
• Match point
  by Carolyn Dain
• Baseball's reliquary: the oddly possible hybrid of shrine and university
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Bookshelf
• The Moon and Saturn
  by Alice Gomez
• Colors of the cosmos: red, green, and blue may mean one thing to a scientist and something different to everybody else
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Salt: a World History
  by Raymond Sokolov
• Simply connect
  by Robert Badra
• Interleavings: hardwood and coniferous forests rub shoulders in Michigan's Lower Peninsula
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock