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Articles in July-August, 2006 issue of Natural History

• Museum events
• Science most foul
  by Laurence A. Marshall
• Fog lifts on ozone
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Reptilophilia
  by Robert Anderson
• Soap in your vegetables?
  by Stephan Reebs
• Yellowstone to Yukon opens July 15, 2006
• Oh, the trials of motherhood
  by Stephan Reebs
• The scaly ones: squamata—lizards and snakes—have spread to almost every landmass and branched into more than 7,200 species. Ecological and molecular studies are bringing their family tree more clearly into focus
  by Laurie J. Vitt
• Last chance! Darwin
• Gill of newt
  by Erin Espelie
• Avian Einsteins
  by Stephan Reebs
• People at the AMNH.
• No laughing matter
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• Keep me hanging on: surviving in the intertidal zone tests the rubbery limits of algae
  by Adam Summers
• Proto-Alexandria
  by Stephan Reebs
• Beyond the big bang: a new cosmic worldview holds that countless replicas of Earth, inhabited by our clones, are scattered throughout the cosmos
  by Alex Vilenkin
• The sky in July and August
  by Joe Rao
• Death zone
  by Stephan Reebs
• Lizards & snakes: alive!
• Hard labor at Bear Gulch
  by Eugene H. Kaplan
• Beware the toxic road!
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• From fins to limbs: recent fossil discoveries show how four-legged land animals evolved from fishes whose finlike paddles had already adapted to functions such as pushing through shallows and swamps
  by Jennifer A. Clack
• Coal wars
  by John Andrews
• Traveling green: tourists who want to vote with their pocketbooks for sustainable practices can consult networks that certify ecotourist operators. But who certifies the certifiers?
  by Carol Goodstein
• Space Shuttle launch live
• Hidden world in the desert
  by Nick W. Atkinson
• The other Kinsey report: Alfred C. Kinsey's scientific interests went well beyond sex
  by Peter Del Tredici
• Deceptive nebulous apparition? The double helix at the center of the galaxy
  by Charles Liu