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Articles in Nov, 2003 issue of Natural History

• Time will tell
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• Naked: it's so 68,000 B.C
  by Stephan Reebs
• Desert dreams: seeking the secret mammals of the salt pans
  by Michael A. Mares
• Carl Sagan's legacy
• The Cayman islands
• Stand and deliver: why did early hominids begin to walk on two feet?
  by Ian Tattersall
• Night lights
  by Vicente Rivera
• West Virginia
• Built for Speed: a Year in the Life of Pronghorn
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The light fantastic
  by Hans J. Berliner
• Dark and darker: there's a lot more gravity in the cosmos than meets the eye
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Oasis in the Everglades: a Florida wildlife refuge combines nature and nurture
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Captivated
  by Meredith F. Small
• Whence the moon
  by Harrison Schmitt
• Maryland
• Ancient Wine: the Search for the Origins of Viniculture
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Spinmeisters
  by Stephan Reebs
• Catch and release: sea cucumbers might put a torn Achilles tendon back together again
  by Adam Summers
• Experience SonicVision: how do you see your music?
• Flushed
  by Peter Brown
• Really sinister
  by Stephan Reebs
• Fight of the bumblebee: insects, like people, are constantly threatened by disease. Bumblebees' simple but effective immune systems shed light on the evolution of immune defenses and the costs of maintaining them
  by Paul Schmid-Hempel
• The sky in November
  by Joe Rao
• Ask Pooh
  by William J. Rihn
• Cruise Wwest
• Mutants: on Genetic Variety and the Human Body
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Poisoning the waters
  by Stephan Reebs
• The lizard kings: small monitors roam to the east of an unseen frontier; mammals roam to the west
  by Samuel S. Sweet
• Museum events
• A well-dressed bird
  by Erin Espelie
• Elemental question
  by Stephan Reebs
• Trashed: across the Pacific Ocean, plastics, plastics, everywhere
  by Charles Moore
• Up the chimney: pipes of hot gas stream from superbubbles bursting out of the disk of the Milky Way
  by Charles Liu