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Articles in Sept 4, 2004 issue of Science News

• Alzheimer's advance: omega-3 fatty acid benefits mice
  by N. Seppa
• A call to arms aids recovery of sight
• Monturiol's Dream: the Extraordinary Story of the Submarine Inventor Who Wanted to Save the world
• Squashed
  by Howard Zimmerman
• Helping circuits get enough oxygen
• Vitamin E may curb colds in old folks
• Scanning risk: whole-body CT exams may increase cancer
  by D. Parsell
• Bones Rock! Everything You Need to Know to Be a Paleontologist
• Rocky road: planet hunting gets closer to Earth
  by R. Cowen
• Babies' sound path to language skills
• The Midnight Disease: the Drive to write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
• Paved paradise? Impervious surfaces affect a region's hydrology, ecosystems—even its climate
  by Sid Perkins
• Cultured readers: Chinese kids show new neural side of dyslexia
  by B. Bower
• Mom bears more sons when she gets extra bouquets
• Mexican Americans face stroke risk
• Hostas
• Cancer flip-flop: gene acts in both proliferation and control of growth
  by C. Brownlee
• Tiny timepiece: atomic clock could fit almost anywhere
  by P. Weiss
• Electrifying toxic cleanup: electrodes could stimulate removal of radioactive waste
  by A. Goho
• Pathogenic partners prompt pneumonia
• The Invisible Century: Einstein, Freud, and the Search for Hidden Universes
• Funny pages
  by Paul Danish
• Ocean envy: scientists look toward marine creatures to improve watercraft designs
  by Carrie Lock
• Sound power for deep-space travel beyond sun's reach