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Articles in Feb 28, 2004 issue of Science News

• Blocked gene gives mice super smell - Neuroscience - Brief Article
• Plant Discoveries: a Botanist's Voyage through Plant Exploration - Book Review
• Old colonies: ancient formations are termites' legacy
  by S. Perkins
• Microbe exhibits out-of-body activity - Microbiology - Brief Article
• Inflammatory fat: unraveling the injurious biology of obesity
  by Janet Raloff
• Leaving Earth: Space Stations, Rival Superpowers, and the Quest for Interplanetary Travel - Book Review
• Song sung blue: in brain, music and language overlap - This Week
  by B. Bower
• Feral breed lacks domestic dogs' skill - Evolution - Brief Article
• Averting pain: epilepsy drug limits migraine attacks - This Week
  by N. Seppa
• Linguists in Siberia record dying tongues - Anthropology - Turkic language - Brief Article
• Hard stuff: cooked diamonds don't dent
  by P. Weiss
• How agriculture ground to a start - Archaeology - Brief Article
• Toward the Livable City - Book Review
• Fox selection: bottleneck survivors show surprising variety - This Week
  by S. Milius
• The calculus of love - Mathematics - Brief Article
• Cow punchers - Letters - Letter to the Editor
• Straining for speed: in search of faster electronics, chip makers contort silicon crystals
  by Peter Weiss
• Chased by Sea Monsters Prehistoric Predators of the Deep - Book Review
• Toss out the toss-up: bias in heads-or-tails
  by E. Klarreich
• HIV infects 1 in 100 in New York - Epidemiology - Brief Article
• When Least is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small as Possible
• Wrenching findings: homing in on dark energy
  by R. Cowen
• Primate virus found in zoo workers - Animal Viruses - Brief Article
• It's tough in there - Letters - Letter to the Editor
  by Lawrence Wallin