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Articles in April, 2005 issue of Natural History

• Egypt: where past is present
• Crow bar
  by Stephan Reebs
• Conrad Martens and the Art of the Beagle
  by Elizabeth Ellis
• The sky in April
  by Joe Rao
• Which way is up?
  by Stephan Reebs
• Orient Lines: seeing the world up close, in-depth
• Living with fire
  by Robert Anderson
• Urban greenery
  by Adrian Benefe
• Ecological lessons in survival
  by Jared Diamond
• New Brunswick, Canada: what would you say to a walk on the ocean floor? Say awe
• Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• A breath of fresh … hydrogen
  by Stephan Reebs
• Nova Scotia: a destination for all seasons
• Frozen Earth: the Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Picky eaters
  by Stephan Reebs
• Ripples in the cosmic pond: astronomers have detected a long-sought relic from the early universe
  by Charles Liu
• Young at heart
  by Warren Burggren
• Descent with modification: a great-grandson of Charles Darwin's opens new vistas into the voyage of the Beagle
  by Richard Milner
• Talented newcomer
  by Stephan Reebs
• The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Returning Reeds?
• Kindred strokes for different folks
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Born to run: humans will never win a sprint against your average quadruped. But our species is well-adapted for the marathon
  by Adam Summers
• FYi reader service
• Dogfight
  by Vilmos Csanyi
• The long and short of it: aunes, cubits, leagues, palms, stadia—old-fashioned units of measurement make it hard to do science
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Landscape of plenitude
  by Dave Forest
• Keeping the ends in sight: Elizabeth Blackburn's focus on the once-obscure DNA at the ends of chromosomes has led to promising lines of research on aging, cancer, and stress
  by Mary K. Miller
• Hitchin' a ride
  by Erin Espelie
• Slick sisters
  by Stephan Reebs
• Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History
• Announcing the Franklin Institute Awards
• Hard to imagine
  by Peter Brown
• Fire Down under: bushfire season pays Australia a hellish visit each year. Drought and climate change could be making the infernos worse
  by Dan Drollette
• Museum events