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Articles in July 30, 2005 issue of Science News

• Pushing drugs: how medical marketing influences doctors and patients
  by Ben Harder
• Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Columns
• Cassini eyes youthful-looking Saturnian moon
  by R. Cowen
• Bipolar kids harbor unique brain trait
• What's gotten into everybody? Survey of bodily contaminants finds encouraging declines and new exposures
  by B. Harder
• Planet potential
• Seeing past the dirt: using ground-penetrating radar to focus archaeological digs
  by Sid Perkins
• Shaping the Industrial Century: The Remarkable Story of the Evolution of the Modern Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries
• Fickle finger's funny feel: digit illusion modifies touch perception
  by B. Bower
• In search of the imperfect nanocrystal
• Led astray
  by William Meadows
• Echinacea disappoints: there's still no cure for the common cold
  by N. Seppa
• Why isn't the sky violet, Daddy?
• Red and cloudy
  by J. Thomas Baylor
• Glints from inner space: sensing Earth's hidden radioactivity
  by P. Weiss
• Cell death may spur aging
• The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad: The Lost Legacy of ancient Mesopotamia
• Boning up: tissue for grafts grown inside the body
  by C. Brownlee
• Weighty evidence on testicular cancer
• Wing ding: bird rubs feathers for cricketlike song
  by S. Milius
• 1st-5th century AD
• The American Heritage Science Dictionary
• Young and helpless: fossils suggest that dinosaur parents cared
  by S. Perkins
• A new X-ray eye on the cosmos
• Oak: The Frame of Civilization