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Articles in Nov, 2002 issue of Natural History

• Y and Y not
  by Charles J. Cole
• Winter's blast
  by Stephan Reebs
• All the right curves: in an island hummingbird, the shape of the female's bill enables her to feast on local flora inaccessible to the male
  by Ethan J. Temeles
• Elemental facts
  by Frank W. Kenney
• The slippery slope of leech-seeking: a museum curator takes to the field to solve some mysteries of leech evolution
  by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.
• The Selfish meme: do ideas replicate themselves like genes?
  by William C. Wimsatt
• Color guard
  by Erin M. Espelie
• Manna for the sea
  by Stephan Reebs
• And then there was light: Einstein's universe is subtle, but no longer beyond the reach of ordinary common sense
  by Richard Panek
• Jelly vision
  by Martin Hammond
• Distinctive destination: a connoisseur's guide to exquisite and exotic locales
• Through the stone door: rugged canyons pierce Tennessee's tableland
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• It's all about you
  by Peter Brown
• Fish dip
  by Stephan Reebs
• Head turner: what's the point of the hammerhead's head if the hammerhead doesn't hammer?
  by Adam Summers
• Along came a spider …
  by Elizabeth Cator
• Crossing contributions
  by Kim Kleinman
• Experiment of the month
  by Stephan Reebs
• Pirates of the Barcadares: early mariners in Belize left archaeologists tantalizing traces of their lives but no buried treasure
  by Daniel Finamore
• Of babies and bathwater
  by Susan Winters
• Museum events
• Green party
  by Stephan Reebs
• Anybody out there? Or is life, instead, "a glorious accident"?
  by Oliver Sacks
• The sky in November
  by Joe Rao
• Valley of the Kings
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Mislabeled milkweed
  by Douglas Mullen
• Einstein
• Bookshelf
• Grief on the reef
  by Stephan Reebs
• Going ballistic: the many varieties of free fall
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Black-hole cannibals: if one gobbles another, stand by for a space-quake!
  by Charles Liu