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Articles in March 8, 2003 issue of Science News

• Phantom energy would trigger the Big Rip - Cosmic Doomsday Scenario - universe expanding at faster rate; dark energy density grows
  by R. Cowen
• Portrait of a cancer drug at work - Biomedicine - breast cancer drug Herceptin binds to and inhibits the protein HER2 on cancer-cell surfaces - Brief Article
• Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are. - book review
• Welfare reform hasn't changed kids so far - Working Out
  by B. Bower
• Light could be therapy against blindness - Biomedicine - Brief Article
• Mutations produce black house cats, jaguars - Feline Finding - gene mutations
  by J. Travis
• Why beer may deter blood clots - Food & Nutrition - Brief Article
• Six Degrees: the Science of a Connected Age. - book review
• Glaciers surge after ice shelf collapses - Slippin' Slide - Antarctica's Larsen A ice shelf
  by S. Perkins
• Doctoral seesaw - Science & Society - doctoral degrees that U.S. universities awarded in science and engineering - Brief Article
• Tough stuff - Letters - Nanotubes toughen up ceramics - Brief Article
  by Lee W. Casperon
• Protein may underlie preeclampsia - Pregnancy Woe Uncovered - sFlt1, soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1
  by K. Morgan
• Grave surprise rises in Jamestown fort - Archaeology - Brief Article
• Dying to Drink: Confronting Binge Drinking on College Campuses. - book review
• Molecule could be key to stomach ailment - Ulcer Clue? - protein, Ptprz; VacA, Helicobacter pylori toxin; stomach ulcers
  by N. Seppa
• Miscarriages foretell heart trouble - Epidemiology - Brief Article
• Love for the love frog? - Letters
• Layers break apart in controlled way - Making Polymers That Self-Destruct
  by J. Gorman
• Death of a pioneer - Astronomy - Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to venture to the edge of the solar system - Brief Article
• When drinking helps: sorting out for whom a nip might prove therapeutic
  by Janet Raloff
• Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics. - book review
• In sea of cars, trucks reveal traffic flow - Watching the Big Wheelers
  by P. Weiss
• Blood sugar processing tied to brain problems - Neuroscience - Brief Article
• Spring forward: warmer climates accelerate life cycles of plants, animals
  by Sid Perkins
• Aquagenesis: the Origin and Evolution of Life in the Sea. - book review