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Articles in July, 2005 issue of Natural History

• Chain letters
  by Stephan Reebs
• Not dead yet: a dying star is caught flaring briefly back to life
  by Charles Liu
• Chill out
  by Robert Anderson
• Play ball!
  by Elizabeth M. Donohue
• The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Stephanie Fotiadis: graphic designer, National Center for Science Literacy, Education and Technology
• Dinosaur geography
  by David R. Schwimmer
• Mistaken identity?
  by John M. Marzluff
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• Heading out: to explore deep space—and make stops along the way—spacecraft will need new forms of propulsion
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Messing about
  by Dru Clarke
• Cold fire: in Antarctica's Dry Valleys, the deep chambers and conduits that poured hot lava onto the surface are exposed as nowhere else on Earth
  by Edmond A. Mathez
• Down the hatch
  by Erin Espelie
• Red power
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Young Naturalist Awards 2005: a research-based essay contest for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science
• Sand trap: confined to a mountain valley, windblown sand has piled up into towering dunes
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Epilogue
  by Peter Brown
• Air hockey for giants
  by Dave Forest
• The Elements of Murder: A History of Poison
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Keeping an eye out
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Comeback kids: elephant "single moms" are struggling to recreate family life after the traumatic years of poaching
  by Delia Owens
• By any means available
  by Stephan Reebs
• Growing strains
  by Stephan Reebs
• Fyi reader service
• In the heat of the night: an assassin bug's sensory journey
  by Graciela Flores
• Shakers and movers
  by Stephan Reebs
• Unhappy trails: forensic examination of ancient remains sheds new light on the emergence of Florida's Seminole Indians
  by Christopher M. Stojanowski
• The sky in July and August
  by Joe Rao