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Articles in May 21, 2005 issue of Science News

• Insulin may trigger type 1 diabetes
• Rascal rabbits
  by Wesley Brill
• Memories for life: war sparked enduring recollections
  by B. Bower
• When fair means superb: young scientists and engineers meet in international competition
  by E. Sohn
• Big Weather: Chasing Tornadoes in the Heart of America
• Heartburn in bed: soda, sleeping pills can spoil sleep
  by B. Harder
• Spotty neutron stars
• Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle
• Baby rescue: cord blood saves infants with rare disease
  by N. Seppa
• Molecular anatomy revealed: CT scans for molecules show the gauzy nature of matter
  by Peter Weiss
• Descent: The Heroic Discovery of the Abyss
• Perfect match: embryonic stem cells carry patients' DNA
  by C. Brownlee
• Vertebrates, insects share the stress
• Year of the Comets: A Journey from Sadness to the Stars
• New mammals: coincidence, shopping yield two species
  by S. Milius
• Portrait of destruction
  by S. Perkins
• The Nature of Plants: Habitats, Challenges, and Adaptations
• Coasting to Asia in the Stone Age
• Just a thought
  by Greg Ottinger
• Muddy waters: more sediment is entering rivers, but less makes its way to the sea
  by Sid Perkins
• Quantum bull's-eye: particle-mass prediction hits the mark
  by P. Weiss
• Boxes coated with citronella repel insects
• Saturnian moonscape
• Off base?
  by Andy Olesin
• Brain's support cells, always on the go
• School buses spew pollution into young lungs