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Articles in March 23, 1991 issue of Science News

• Astronomy panel talks dollars and sense - panel appointed by the National Research Council lists its priorities for ground- and space-based research
  by Ron Cowen
• Teenage turning point: does adolescence herald the twilight of girls' self-esteem? - Cover Story
  by Bruce Bower
• Keeping food fresh with bamboo
• Slowing down light in milk and white paint - how light is scattered when passing through white substances
  by Ivars Peterson
• Therapy improves rectal cancer outlook - combination of radiation and drugs
• Soviets join the club - Ocean Drilling Program
• Fossil finds expand early hominid anatomy - Ethiopia
  by Bruce Bower
• Good news for pregnant VDT workers? - video display terminals do not increase the risk of miscarriage
• Cashew oil may conquer cavities - tooth decay
• CO2: where it goes, nobody knows - what happens to atmospheric carbon dioxide
• Gaseous clue to impending eruption - predicting future volcanic activity near Ito, Japan
• Helium find thaws the cold fusion trail - report that cold fusion experiments created helium
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Low-level radiation: higher long-term risk? - cancer linked to ionizing radiation
  by Wendy Gibbons
• Buying time in the war on global warming - new study justifies President Bush's go-slow policy
  by Richard Monastersky
• Root words: scientists strengthen the case for subterranean signals among plants
  by Rick Weiss
• Digging into a doggone puzzle - animal remains discovered at an archeological site in Ashkelon, Israel
  by Ron Cowen
• Alzheimer's drug fails panel review - tetrahydroaminoacridine
  by Kathy A. Fackelmann