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Articles in July 25, 1987 issue of Science News

• Grapefruit pectin reduces cholesterol
• Superconductivity glimpsed near 300 K
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Warning: peel potatoes before cooking
• New limits for 8 organics in tapwater
• Boring' reading and nearsightedness
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Kids' leukemia from parents' exposures?
  by Janet Raloff
• Why vitamin A may fight infections
• The electric life of plants gives fungal spores a charge
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Hominoid lineages and keystone clues
  by Bruce Bower
• Neural nets catch the ABCs of DNA
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Cages, cavities and clefts: by building and setting molecular traps, chemists shed light on how one molecule recognizes another
  by Ivars Peterson
• High-cadmium diet: recipe for stress?
  by Bruce Bower
• … And its leading water pollutant
• Workplace safety rules expanded
• Ride report: the going, not the goal
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• The electronic look of explosives
• Parasitic wasps keep on ticking
  by Rick Weiss
• First test-firing for redesigned shuttle booster rocket
• Cancer therapy risks assessed
  by Rick Weiss
• Taking care of immunity
  by Bruce Bower
• Going for a molecular spin
  by S. Weisburd
• Viral exposure boosts schizophrenia risk
  by Bruce Bower
• Voting on military funding
• Cyclosporine, low cholesterol: bad mix?
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Black infant mortality risks studied
• Large warm spot in the Pacific
• Sputnik 1 plus 30 years: the long and the short of it
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• 1987 Ad
  by D.D. Edwards
• Antimatter, antichemistry
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Hominid evolution: a tale of two trees
  by Bruce Bower
• Hunting Planet X: a nothing that counts
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• No more alligator tears?
• CH3ips off the old genetic block
  by Diane D. Edwards
• A boost for low-weight babies
• Seeing double
• Star motions may alter view of galaxy
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Higher yields from small-potted plants
• New clues to smog's effects on lungs
  by Janet Raloff
• Federal officials take aim at AIDS
• Blood clot agent's genes are read
• Don't panic, you're pregnant
• Shrinking silicon chips down to size
  by Stefi Weisburd
• Toxic shock and tampons revisited
• Abrupt extinctions at end of Triassic
  by Richard Monastersky
• Counting on a high-tech pest patrol
• The CO2-people connection
• Discounting the threat of acid rain
  by I. Peterson
• Adult amphibian in Antilles amber
• Space station: more study = more money
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Can only evapotranspiration make a tree?
• Forest fires, barnacles and trickling oil: chance plays a key role in some simple mathematical models that suggest natural processes
  by Ivars Peterson
• Sounding out chemical hot spots
  by Ivars Peterson
• Plastic wrap: what's that musty smell?
• How marijuana may infect immunity
• Fungi: California's answer to selenium?
• Human fetal-cell transplants planned
  by Rick Weiss
• How much do you smoke? Spit it out
• An inflatable U.S. $pace $tation
  by Jonathan Eberhart
• Autoimmunity may cause infertility
  by Rick Weiss
• How dare we? Scientists seek the sources of risk-taking behavior
  by Rick Weiss
• Price tag for Price-Anderson Act
  by Karen Hartley
• Trouble with EPA's radwaste rules
• The art of computer graphics
  by Ivars Peterson
• Lens crystallins may be moonlighting
• High-risk sex studied in women, men
  by Diane D. Edwards
• Steroid helpful in muscular dystrophy
• Taking a vacuum of extraterrestrial dust
  by Rick Monastersky
• Eco-bucks: going for the purse strings
• 'Competition' cause of AIDS dementia?
  by Diane D. Edwards
• One giant leap for aphid-kind
• You say tomato, they say tomography
  by Rick Weiss
• Historical coral
• Ariane flies again
• Lithotriptor therapy coming of age
• Prehistoric tusks: early boomerang?
  by Bruce Bower
• Antarctic ozone reaches lowest levels
  by Richard Monastersky
• Bank balance: economy and ecology
• Gone with fission
  by Dietrick E. Thomsen
• Further findings on flare phenomena
  by Karen Hartley
• Helping spuds defend themselves

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