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Articles in Oct, 2003 issue of Natural History

• Desert secrets
  by Peter Brown
• The Cayman Islands: birders in the know are finding their way to Cayman Brac, one of the three Cayman Islands
• Portal to Petra: hewn out of sandstone cliffs, the hidden capital of the ancient Nabataeans became a center for spice traders, artisans, and urbane sophisticates 2,300 years ago
  by Martha Sharp Joukowsky
• Museum Events
• A matter of taste
  by Stephan Reebs
• Dorchester County
• Eating Apes
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• What life looks like on Mars?
  by Erin M. Espelie
• Bermuda: bird enthusiasts from all over the world regularly flock to Bermuda to observe a colorful combination of native species and migrating visitors
• Evolutionary anthems: the songs of Darwin finches might be responsible for the group rapid speciation
  by Adam Summers
• Petra: Lost City of Stone
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• Charles County
• Space, the Final Frontier?
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• War of words about war
• Korea
• Promised land: several million years ago tectonic forces began to create an edenic corridor that led early humans out of Africa and into the Near East
  by Zvi Ben-Avraham
• The salt not of the earth: throughout the Egg Nebula, astrochemists have detected—what else?—sodium chloride
  by Charles Liu
• Serious gravity
  by Stephan Reebs
• Worcester County
• Crop circles: spin notwithstanding, can GM food still save the world?
  by Marc J. Cohen
• Something to howl about: to earn her spurs as a tropical biologist, the author decided to study a parasite that even her colleagues wanted to avoid
  by Katharine Milton
• The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Thought for Food
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Let there be light: some 380,000 years after the big bang, the universal fog lifted and the cosmic background radiation was set free
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• BigPockets
• The Silent Landscape: The Scientific voyage of HMS Challenger
  by Laurence A. Marshall
• Hot rocks
  by Stephan Reebs
• Queen Anne's County
• Sunbathing seals of Antarctica: the puzzle is' how do they keep cool?
  by Terrie M. Williams
• The Sky in October
  by Joe Rao
• Reading the leaves
  by Stephan Reebs
• Garrett County
• Fern relations: a patch of forest in Massachusetts harbors some shady characters
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock