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Articles in August 18, 2007 issue of Science News

• Anti-inflammatory prevents pancreatic cancer in mice
• Road bumps: why dirt roads develop a washboard surface
  by J. Rehmeyer
• The Blue Death: Disease, Disaster, and the Water We Drink
• Alien pizza, anyone? Biochemistry may have taken a different turn on other worlds
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• A Measure of All Things: The Story of a Man and Measurement
• Protein lineages: randomness was crucial to ancient genetic changes
  by P. Barry
• Geyser gawker: Plans for a closer look at Enceladus
• Idiosyncratic Iapetus: Saturnian moon puts a time stamp on the outer solar system
  by Ron Cowen
• Lives of the Planets: A Natural History of the Solar System
• Calming factor: DNA vaccine for MS passes initial test
  by N. Seppa
• Shocking sheets: power paper packs a punch
  by A Goho
• Depression defense: sick elderly get mood aid from home treatment
  by B. Bower
• The 50 Best Sight in Astronomy and How To See Them: Observing Eclipses, Bright Comets, Meteor Showers, and Other Celestial Wonders
• Badly matched birds make troubled parents
• The Most Important Fish in the Sea
• Mood bugs: beetle changes color in fluid fashion
  by C. Barry
• Uncharted atomic landscapes
• A moment in the life of a cell: microscopic scan images without intruding
  by D. Castelvecchi
• What's so great about 'chuck'?
• Exhaustive analysis
  by David B. Thomas
• How reading may protect the brain
• Seeking the hole truth
  by Peter Shor