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Articles in May, 2004 issue of Natural History

• Evidence of impact
  by Jordan Paul Amadio
• The sky in May
  by Joe Rao
• To persist in error …
  by Eric Wolman
• Like mother, like son
  by Stephan Reebs
• A birthstone for earth: the oldest terrestrial material is a crystal of zircon, the sometime diamond substitute that can be a geologist's best friend
  by Edmond A. Mathez
• Wyoming
• Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Bloom on
  by Erin Espelie
• The planet parade: for millennia, planets were just mysterious, wandering points of light in the night sky. Now they are destinations
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• New York State
• Role reversal
  by Joomi Kim
• Moving Mountains
  by Robert Anderson
• Nova Scotia
• Brains and the beast: can the behaviorist's insistence on distinguishing animal from human cognition be reconciled with evolutionary continuity?
  by Frans B.M. de Waal
• Different stroke
  by Jordan Paul Amadio
• Museum scientist takes on bugs of the Southern Hemisphere: leads team aiming to study 5,000 species of plant-eating bugs
• Cryptic creatures
• Prions make amends
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• Running with Reindeer: Encounters in Russian Lapland
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Reality check
  by Peter Brown
• Of mice, men, and genes: the best-laid plans o' DNA gang aft agley
  by Robert M. Sapolsky
• The face of extinction
  by Hanna Rose Shell
• Seeing red
  by Stephan Reebs
• Too many X rays: in a sky visible only from outer space, astronomers may have found the first example of an intermediate-size black hole
  by Charles Liu
• Browbeaten ancestors
  by Julian Kane
• Sequoia: the Heralded Tree in American Art and Culture
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Cozy 1BR, Forest Vu
  by Stephan Reebs
• How a star avoids the limelight: some echinoderms have thousands of eyes on their backs. When the lights come on, they switch to wearing shades
  by Adam Summers
• More trash talk
  by Steve E. Hartman
• Aftermath of occupation
  by Stephan Reebs
• Egypt's young and restless: through Islam and the Internet, a new generation seeks its fair share
  by Mary Knight