Natural History

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Articles in April 2004 issue of Natural History

• Gas guzzlers: when great galaxies gobble gobs of matter, new stars are born
  by Charles Liu
• Disappearing act
  by Erin Espelie
• Mud's eye view: to understand the world of the fiddler crab, ecologists peer through a lens that renders a landscape as a doughnut-shaped panorama
  by Douglas Fox
• The good Earth
  by Robert Anderson
• Palliative or poison?
  by Stephan Reebs
• For the sake of the kids
  by Peter Brown
• A fly in the curveball: as the 103rd Major League baseball season opens, physicists have now shown that a well-hit curveball trumps a well-hit fastball. Pitchers must be so scared
  by Adam Summers
• The sky in April
  by Joe Rao
• For richer or poorer
  by Richard Vineski
• Supercrop: the yam bean, a tuber undaunted by drought, poor soil, or insects, produces astonishing yields. The crop is the focus of a worldwide effort to unlock its potential
  by Marten Sorensen
• Science Bulletins: bringing science news into the halls—and beyond
  by Ashton Applewhite
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Beetlemania
  by Robert S. Schemenauer
• Virtual universe: centuries of astronomy, plus video-game technology, combine to offer a stunning new perspective on our place in space
  by Brian Abbott
• Snap judgments
  by Andrew Raybould
• No place to call home: Japanese Brazilians discover they are foreigners in the country of their ancestors
  by Takeyuki Tsuda
• Cryptic creatures
• Singapore's vest-pocket park: a rainforest survives within sight of skyscrapers
  by Jamie James
• Evolutionary circles.
  by Stephan Reebs
• Amendment
• Ice age Siberians
  by Kenneth D. Kostel
• Heat exchange: the global warming debate mixes daunting complexity with high political stakes, a toxic brew that continues to test dispassionate science
  by Robert Ehrlich
• All in the family
  by Stephan Reebs
• Feeling pressured
  by Stephan Reebs
• Ishi's Brain: in Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• You take the muscles, I'll take the ears
  by Aimee Cunningham
• Launching the right stuff: who will make the better space explorer: robot or human being?
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Distinctive destinations: from the moors of Scotland to the beaches of Bermuda: far-flung and nearby destinations for nature lovers
• A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende
  by Laurence A. Marschall