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Articles in Dec 24, 1994 issue of Science News

• Psychotherapy's road to cocaine control - short-term psychotherapy more effective than desipramine in reducing cocaine use among cocaine abusers - Brief Article
  by Bruce Bower
• Astronomers track a new storm over Saturn - Hubble Space Telescope spots equatorial storm - Brief Article
  by Ron Cowen
• Cloudy effects of ozone loss - ozone thinning may have increased cloud cover, counteracting the expected temperature rise from greenhouse warming - Brief Article
• Earthmovers: humans take their place alongside wind, water, and ice - humans' impact on Earth's surface
  by Richard Monastersky
• Seattle's slippery underside - relationship of decollement under Puget Sound to region's earthquakes - Brief Article
• Microlight: lasing with single atoms - microlaser developed - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson
• NASA identifies cause of ozone depletion - data gathered with NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite implicates chlorofluorocarbons - Brief Article
  by Adrienne C. Brooks
• Hair - the long and the short of it - fibroblast growth factor 5 linked to hair growth in mice - Brief Article
• More than one way to catch a worm - frogs' size determines how prey are caught - Brief Article
• Broccoli inhibits cancer - mostly - indole-3-carbinol breaks down in the stomach into ICZ, a substance showing antiestrogenic activity that may have anticancer effects - Brief Article
• Plants: the new plastic makers - plants produce biodegradable plastic
  by Tina Adler
• The dark side of sunlight: skin cancer - squamous cell carcinoma linked to mutation in p53
  by Kathy A. Fackelmann
• Getting the skinny on weight loss - Institute of Medicine report claims a loss of 10% to 15% of body mass can significantly improve the health of an obese person - Brief Article
• Ancient fungal farmers - attine ants - Brief Article
• Chocolate: heart-ier than you thought - stearic acid does not raise blood cholesterol even though it is a fatty acid - Brief Article
• New metal fillings for carbon tubules - methods for filling carbon nanotubes with metals - Brief Article
  by Richard Lipkin
• Genes prevent inbreeding, aid development - plant genes that have evolved new uses
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• North Pole ice: any thinning in sight? - changes in ice thickness in Arctic ocean probably unrelated to climactic warming - Brief Article
• Getting down to basics - factors regulating cell death studied - Brief Article
• Twin of El Nino found in Indian Ocean - the two El Ninos seem to be linked - Brief Article
• This fat may aid spread of breast cancer - diets high in linoleic acid linked to spread of breast cancer in mice - Brief Article
  by Janet Raloff
• The return of thalidomide: a shunned compound makes a scientific comeback
  by Tina Adler
• Bach to chaos: chaotic variations on a classical theme - chaos theory used to compose music
  by Ivars Peterson
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  by Patrick Young