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Articles in June 10, 1995 issue of Science News

• Pill ups cancer risk in young women - birth control pill increases breast cancer risk
  by Tina Adler
• Alzheimer's mice betray cognitive drop - progress in development of mouse model of Alzheimer's Disease - Brief Article
  by John Travis
• Dusting the climate for fingerprints; has the greenhouse warming arrived? Will we ever know? - searching for the cause of global warming; includes related article
  by Richard Monastersky
• Bacterial genomes sequenced - entire genomes of Hemophilus influenza and Mycoplasma genitalium sequenced - Brief Article
  by John Travis
• Tired cats make lipid sleep hormone - brain hormone taken from cats induces sleep in rats - Brief Article
  by Lisa Seachrist
• Microscope yields sharp 3-D images - new microscope images living cells in three dimensions in low light conditions - Brief Article
  by Richard Lipkin
• Kobe in California - surveys of the San Francisco Bay Area between 1853 and 1891 provide information about 1868 earthquake along Hayward fault - Brief Article
  by Richard Monastersky
• Ulcer-causing bacteria found in water - Helicobacter pylori found in contaminated drinking water - Brief Article
  by John Travis
• Galaxy evolution: a multiwavelength view - disk-shaped galaxies identified as source of faint radio emissions
  by Ron Cowen
• When CAG spells trouble: DNA repeats may turn good proteins into bad - repeated nucleotide triplet underlying many genetic diseases
  by John Travis
• Sprites captured above Amazon - researchers spot 20 sprites in six flights out of Lima, Peru - Brief Article
• Brain changes linked to phantom-limb pain - cortical reorganization associated with amputee pain - Brief Article
  by Bruce Bower
• If you smoked Kents in the 1950s… - cigarettes contained crocidolite asbestos fibers - Brief Article
• Space laser illuminates clouds - Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment aboard space shuttle - Brief Article
• Thumbs partly up for Gravity Probe B - National Academy of Sciences panel determines that the experiment to test general relativity is worth the cost to complete - Brief Article
• Balancing California's quake budget - future Southern California earthquakes may be less frequent but larger than expected
  by Richard Monastersky
• Drawing a violin bow to new lows in music - leading violinist Mari Kimura develops new bowing technique - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson
• A date for all people - calendar reform proposed - Brief Article
• Lasing in a photonic wire - semiconductor microcavity laser developed - Brief Article