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Articles in April 9, 1994 issue of Science News

• Boosted light: laser action in white paint - "paint-on laser" discovered
  by Ivars Peterson
• Nursing mother rats show brain changes
  by Damaris Christensen
• Climate changes may make insects winners - constant temperatures reduce impact of plant toxins on tobacco hornworms - Brief Article
  by Tina Adler
• Blackened mangrove, smothered reef; years later, oil still sickens tropical coastal ecosystems - Bahia Las Minas, Panama
  by Elizabeth Pennsi
• Ill-fated Milky Way neighbor found - Milky Way Galaxy likely to absorb newly discovered dwarf galaxy
  by Ron Cowen
• Scrambled Earth; researchers look deep to learn how the planet cools its heart - includes related article about use of diamonds in high-pressure physics
  by Richard Monastersky
• Counting electrons for a new standard - new standard for measuring capacitance - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson
• Reservoir linked to deadly quake in India - Killari reservoir could have induced Latur earthquake
  by Richard Manastersky
• An interstellar tale writ in space dust - space dust clouds can be used as remote sensors to send information to Earth about interstellar environment - Brief Article
  by Richard Lipkin
• Setting U.S. environmental policy for 1996 - interested parties recommend priorities for research in natural resources and the environment
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Hominids: down-to-earth or up tree? - Australopithecus afarensis
  by Bruce Bower
• The amazing molecular maquettes - synthesizing multiheme proteins
• Swirls of superfluid flow - liquid helium in thin film produces distinctive signal - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson