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Articles in Oct 9, 2004 issue of Science News

• Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids
• Dawn of the commercial space age
  by S. Perkins
• Global warming won't boost carbon storage in tundra
• Fighting cholesterol with saturated fat?
• More space sugar
• On the Wing: To the Edge of the Earth with the Peregrine Falcon
• Evolution's buggy ride: lice leap boldly into human-origins fray
  by B. Bower
• Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
• Carotid overhaul: stents and surgery go neck and neck
  by N. Seppa
• Car deaths rise days after terror attacks
• Mathematician at the Ballpark: Odds and Probabilities for Baseball Fans
• Separate vacations: birds winter apart but return in sync
  by Susan Milius
• Turmeric component kills cancer cells
• Adopted protein might be MS culprit
• Physiology or medicine
  by C. Brownlee
• Murder 2: The Second Casebook of Forensic Detection
• Scrubbing down: free soap, hygiene tips cut kids' illnesses
  by B. Harder
• Physics
  by S. Perkins
• Vitamin boost: from muscle strength to immunity, scientists find new vitamin D benefits
  by Janet Raloff
• Planet signs? Sifting a dusty disk
  by R. Cowen
• Hurrying a nuclear identity switch
• Chemistry
  by A. Goho
• They're sequencing a what? Genome scientists go out on a limb of the tree of life
  by Susan Milius