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Articles in Sept, 2002 issue of Natural History

• Wasp roundup
• Itsy-bitsy suitor
  by Stephan Reebs
• Caution: species crossing; hybridization often results in deformation and death, but sometimes it gives birth to new species
  by Menno Schilthuizen
• Movie rebuff
  by James H. Hastings
• Alive and whale: a missing cetacean resurfaces in the Tropics
  by Robert L. Pitman
• The future: perfect or posthuman? Two scientists different visions of a bioengineered world
  by Vaclav Smil
• Waiting to inhale
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• High-altitude fireworks
  by Stephan Reebs
• Recording the spirit world: contemporary Inuit prints and drawings depict the animism at the heart and soul of a lost hunting culture
  by Dorothy Harley Eber
• New identity
  by Keith Nelson
• Experiment of the month
• The trail to Palm Canyon: set aside for sheep, an Arizona refuge also shelters some unexpected plants
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Bird sees, bird sings
  by Stephan Reebs
• Once upon a milkweed: in this complex community, one insect's poison may be another's meal
  by Anurag A. Agrawal
• Beyond the pale
  by H. Robert Bustard
• Not quite ubiquitous
  by Mike Creech
• With or without
  by Stephan Reebs
• One touch of venom: a box jellyfish is a killer without peer
  by Jamie Seymour
• You are here
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Shedding light
  by Michael Strauss
• When a star isn't born: billions of brown dwarfs illuminate our galaxy—softly
  by Charles Liu
• Bookshelf
• Their game is mud; skipping and jumping across the shore at low tide, mudskippers give new meaning to the phrase "fish out of water."
  by Heather J. Lee
• Sexy bile
  by Stephan Reebs
• Crowning gory
  by Judy Rice
• Young Naturalist Awards 2002
• The sky in September
  by Joe Rao
• Photographing Navajos
• The once and future male: men will survive even after the pivotal genes that make them men disappear - The Evolutionary Front
  by Carl Zimmer
• Fat heads sink ships; protected by an internal "fender," a sperm whale can deliver a killing blow with its head
  by Adam Summers