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Articles in Nov, 2001 issue of Natural History

• 2001 Ad
• A superlative penquin: the least known, last studied, strangest penguin takes a scientist on a most uncomfortable journey
  by Lloyd Spencer Davis
• Bookshelf
• Speed kills
  by Francis Mac Dowell
• Mutant ninja bacteria
  by Maria Ribaudo
• Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness
  by Steven N. Austad
• The perfect fossil: to a museum entomologist, studying a cretaceous insect exquisitely preserved in amber is a very close second to seeing the living thing
  by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• Habitats
• Natural borders
  by Robert (American businessperson and engineer) Anderson
• Going lightly
  by Joel Marks
• Nature's candy
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Captivating Life: A Naturalist in the Age of Genetics
  by Steven N. Austad
• The last days of an Assassin
  by Elizabeth Cator
• All inclusive
  by Paul Dale Roberts
• Of water and wire grass: a placid river meets a threatened prairie, and a botanist rejoices
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
  by Steven N. Austad
• How to stalk a spitting spider: on a mountain in the Philippines, the hunter risks becoming the hunted
  by Robert R. Jackson
• Altruism in the outback: for some tiny Australian insects, the willingness to die for one's home is a relative matter
  by Bernard J. Crespi
• Outta sight: once in a while, Jupiter's moons take a walk
  by Richard Panek
• A late summer day
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• Don't tread on it
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• The enigmatic art of Sanxingdui: bronze trees and masks evoke the spirit worlds of a lost civilization in China
  by Jay Xu
• Stuffin'
• "Bulletproof T-shirts, anyone?"
  by Daniel Marcus
• Radio Bubble: alien couch potatoes? It's possible, thanks to escaping TV and radio signals
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• In the Kingdom of Gorillas: Fragile Species in a Dangerous Land
  by Steven N. Austad
• Us and them: junk DNA raises the question, whose life is it anyway? - The Evolutionary Front - genome research
  by Carl Zimmer
• Islands of autumn: amid the deserts of Arizona, maples blaze a trail
  by Wade C. Sherbrooke
• The sky in November
  by Joe Rao
• A turtle out of water: to freeze or not to freeze: a hatchling's dilemma
  by Peter J. Marchand
• A lost Menagerie: during the past 500 years, countless animal species have gone extinct, some to loud lamentation, others to little notice. Now the art and words of two men have brought to life dozens of the lost creatures, including this sampling—th
  by Tim Flannery
• Sand Dune two-step: the need for speed may bring these lizards to their feet
  by Adam Summers