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Articles in March, 2007 issue of Natural History

• Stars and monuments
  by Ray Ortiz
• Basso profundo
  by Rebecca Kessler
• Aldo Leopold's Odyssey: Rediscovering the Author of A Sand County Almanac
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Happy Birthday, Theophrastus
  by Tom Hoeber
• Northward bound
  by Stephan Reebs
• Spin control: how does swirling interstellar gas slow down enough to drain into a cosmic sink?
  by Charles Liu
• Exit strategies
  by Erin Espelie
• Cosmic rain
  by Stephan Reebs
• On the trail of the ancestors: Anasazi pueblos lie in ruins across the American Southwest. What became of their inhabitants?
  by Craig Childs
• Feel the impact of Cosmic Collisions: vwww.amnh.org
• Soils: alive!
  by Donald L. Johnson
• Warm down, cool up
  by Stephan Reebs
• The First Copernican: Georg Joachim Rheticus and the Rise of the Copernican Revolution
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Notes from the Edge
  by Robert R. Dunn
• Scent of a moth
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Bar coding for botany: a system modeled on commercial bar codes may soon enable anyone to identify any plant from a small fragment of its DNA
  by Kenneth M. Cameron
• Dinosaurs alive! Coming soon to our LeFrak imax theater
• Human evolution, evolved
• Killer app
  by Peter Brown
• Double trouble
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Liz Borda: doctoral candidate division of invertebrate zoology
• Shark etiquette
  by Jennifer McIntosh
• Concrete evidence.
  by Graciela Flores
• New Tubes
  by Robert Anderson
• The chemistry of b.o
  by Stephan Reebs
• Bad news for bears: for thirty years the wild Alaskan bears that visit McNeil sanctuary have learned to trust the people who watch them. But this fall, despite a public outcry, those bears may be hunted
  by Bill Sherwonit
• 2007 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate Pioneer Anomaly: Monday, March 26, 7:30 P.M
• Froggy went a-hikin'
  by Norm Condit
• Ice cycles: long-term fluctuations in ocean temperature lend support to Milutin Milankovitch's theory of climate change. But can his theory account for the ice ages?
  by Donald Goldsmith
• The sky in March
  by Joe Rao
• 400-yard dash
  by Stephan Reebs
• No bones about 'em: the biggest fishes in the ocean may have opted for cartilage over bone to bulk up without getting weighed down
  by Adam Summers