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Articles in Feb 15, 2003 issue of Science News

• 9/11 ash, and more found in river muck - Earth Science - Hudson River - Brief Article
• The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling. - book review
• Bacterial toxin may fend off colon cancer - Montezuma's Welcome Revenge? - Giovanni M. Pitari and Scott A. Waldman of Thomas Jefferson; University in Philadelphia - Brief Article
  by K. Morgan
• Starry eruption on a grand scale - Astronomy - Rho Cassiopeiae - Brief Article
• Heroes and bilirubins - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Nanolights! Camera! Action! Tiny semiconductor crystals reveal cellular activity like never before - quantum dots
  by Jessica Gorman
• Perennials All Season: Planning and Planting an Ever-Blooming Garden. - book review
• Farming has increased flow of soil onto reef - Dirty Story - Brief Article
  by B. Harder
• Streams plus nanostrands equals electricity - Physics - Brief Article
• On the waves - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Carol A. Hill
• How the butterfly gets its spots: and what they tell us about fate
  by Susan Milius
• The Neanderthal's Necklace: in Search of the First Thinkers. - book review
• Satellite homes in on the infant universe - Cosmic Revelations - Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
  by R. Cowen
• Synthetic molecule may treat anemia - Chemistry - erythropoietin - Brief Article
• Thinking ahead - Letters
  by Joseph V. Lambert
• Nanothread mesh could lead to novel bandages - Natural Healing
  by J. Gorman
• Worms offer the skinny on fat genes - Biomedicine
• Not a super model - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by John Gilbert
• Doomed booby chick turns relentlessly violent - Sibling Desperado
  by S. Milius
• The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World. - book review
• Transparent pipes shape microstructures - Light Splash
  by P. Weiss
• Gene found key to brain chemical - Neuroscience - tryptophan hydroxylase encoding gene
• Drug limits disease effects in laboratory mice - Huntington's Advance - huntingtin protein suberoylanilde hydroxamic acid inhibits acetyltransferases
  by N. Seppa
• How the Other Half Thinks: Adventures in Mathematical Reasoning. - book review