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Articles in August 17, 1991 issue of Science News

• Heart drug trial cut short - testing of moricizine halted
• Organs spread hepatitis C - transplanted organs
• Gotcha! Criminal mugs captured in computer memory - "FacePrints", a program for rendering likenesses of criminal suspects
  by John Travis
• Motherless monkeys model alcohol abuse - stress of being raised without a mother increases alcohol consumption in monkeys
  by John Travis
• Bolder bar codes: squeezing more information into those black-and-white symbols
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Prickly tip-off to ozone decline? - saguaro cacti may preview plant damage brought on by ozone layer degradation
  by Carol Ezzell
• Humans blamed for gypsy moth spread
  by Carol Ezzell
• CD4 counts and AIDS survival
• Salt, not acid rain, may mottle Ms. Liberty - Statue of Liberty
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• The lonely bird: claims of the earliest avian fossil launch a paleontologic flap - Cover Story
  by Richard Monastersky
• Ecologists seek help for menaced hybrids - by broadening the Endangered Species Act
  by Carol Ezzell
• Recognizing heart attacks in time
• Dormant noise program's silent reverberations - study of the Environmental Protection Agency's noise-abatement program
  by Janet Raloff
• Buried rock, bacteria yield deep-sea feast - origin of compounds that support communities of animals and photosynthetic bacteria deep in the Gulf of Mexico
  by Richard Monastersky