Natural History

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Articles in May 2003 issue of Natural History

• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• A plenitude of ocean life: a new census of the sea is revealing that microbial cells thrive in undreamed-of numbers. They form an essential part of the food web
  by Edward F. DeLong
• Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life reopens
• Bubble feast
  by Erin Espelie
• Traveling light
  by Stephan Reebs
• A yen for the traditional: in modern Japan, street performers sell ritual and nostalgia to compete with high-tech advertising
  by Ingrid Fritsch
• Museum events
• Thinking blue
  by Peter Brown
• Dust to dust: in the darkest regions of the Milky way are vast interstellar clouds harboring the remains of dead stars and the nurseries for new ones
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Temples for water: the stepwells of western India were a magnificent architectural solution to the seasonality of the water supply
  by Morna Livingston
• Of mice and Masai
  by Richard Milner
• Rights and wrongs
  by Dawn Bailey
• Mycological maestros: in the Ecuadorean rainforest, a "missing link" in the evolution of termite agriculture?
  by Jessie Gunnard
• Bogs and burning woods: small variations in elevation create the strange habitats of New Jersey's pine barrens
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• The shadow knows
• New York State
• Hydro dynamics: forget oil. Sharing freshwater equitably poses political conundrums as explosive and far-reaching as global climate change
  by Sandra Postel
• Curiouser and curiouser
  by Howard J. Naftzger
• New Brunswick, Canada
• www-dot-[H.sub.2]O
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Cattle call
  by James J. Moore
• Wyoming
• Hawks Rest: a Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• You say tomato, I say tomahto
  by Stephan Reebs
• Arizona
• Voyages of Delusion: the Quest for the Northwest Passage
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Fold three times and drink
  by Stephan Reebs
• Quebec
• Sharper focus: resolving the details of the cosmic microwave background has brought new precision to our picture of the cosmos
  by Charles Liu
• Not guilty
  by Stephan Reebs
• Serpents in the air: a little contortionist can go a long way
  by Adam Summers
• The sky in May
  by Joe Rao