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Articles in July 23, 1988 issue of Science News

• Magnetic navigation idea fails to fly - research on magnetic navigation in pigeons
  by Christopher Vaughan
• Infants keep imitation in mind
• Inside a chemical soccer ball - research on carbon cluster with geometric structure like soccer ball
• USSR official attacks Soviet science - Roald Z. Sagdeev
  by Laura Beil
• Panels revive sticky issues - fetal tissue transplantation and in vitro fertilization
• Psychiatric diagnoses, East and West - comparison of diagnosis of depression in U.S. and China
• New way to find contaminants in meat
• A radical role for dietary fish oils
  by Janet Raloff
• Gene control: curiosity and the cat box
  by Rick Weiss
• Genetic roadblocks: the body may not always resist cancer, but it does have built-in barricades to slow the spread
  by Laura Beil
• Electrochemical superconductors
• Optical molasses: atoms in the deep freeze - experiments with laser cooling
  by Ivars Peterson
• Pessimism linked to poor health
  by Bruce Bower
• A new view of vision: two scientists present a startling theory about how the brain processes visual signals
  by Christopher Vaughan
• Toddler revived after hour underwater