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Articles in July-August, 2004 issue of Natural History

• Science and politics
  by Charles Zimmerman
• Amendment
• Caustic comfort
  by Aimee Cunningham
• Birds of a feather …
• The best of all possible worlds: the anthropic approach to cosmology asks, what makes the universe compatible with intelligent life? Was it just the luck of the draw?
  by Donald Goldsmith
• Our Affair with El Nino
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Knockout punch: a boxer who could jab like a mantis shrimp could win every match with a single blow
  by Adam Summers
• C[O.sub.2]: still guilty as charged
  by Stephan Reebs
• Stuffed
  by Stephan Reebs
• Young Naturalist Awards 2004: a research-based essay contest for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science
• Olympian sites
  by Robert Anderson
• Home alone
  by Winifred C. Chin
• Animal magnetism
  by Paul D. Neuwald
• Venomous lizards of the desert: studies of Gila monsters and beaded lizards have uncovered an array of surprising characteristics, from odd fighting rituals, to extreme energy efficiency, to a venom useful in treating diabetes
  by Daniel D. Beck
• Vagabonds in space: asteroids, comets, and moons, oh my!
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Raising mountains
  by David Forest
• As the whirl turns
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Delta delights: glacial meltwater, tides, winds, and waves conspire to mold an Alaskan coastline
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Egyptian riddles
  by Susan Addelston
• Walden Pond: a History
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The whole world is watching
  by Peter Brown
• Trading floor
  by Stephan Reebs
• The first Garfield
  by Stephan Reebs
• Twinkle, twinkle, microlens: in trying to probe the dark matter surrounding, the Milky Way, astronomers have confirmed the identity of a nearby gravitational lens
  by Charles Liu
• Dad's not lost: but his steadfast refusal to ask for directions—despite the jokes—need not be explained as an evolutionary trait of the human male
  by Deborah M. Gordon
• Work incentive
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in July and August
  by Joe Rao
• Here's mud in your eye
  by Gary Noel Ross
• Andromeda strain?
  by Daniel J. Pisano, III
• Come on in, the water's fine
  by Erin Espelie
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• A most dangerous game
  by Wendy Orent
• Locust: the Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Risk and reward
  by Stephan Reebs