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Articles in Feb 2004 issue of Natural History

• Nursing wounds
  by JoAnne D. Whitney
• Swift lift
  by Caitlin E. Cox
• A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Ties that bind
  by Iain C. Wilkie
• Cornshine
  by Graciela Flores
• Surviving the Extremes: a Doctor's Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Cramped quarters
  by Stephan Reebs
• Great masses from little ripples grew: the organization of matter into superclusters and voids began with subatomic variations in density during the earliest moments after the big bang
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Land That Never Was: Sir Gregor MacGregor and the Most Audacious Fraud in History
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Deep down under
  by Avis Lang
• Clicks are for kids
  by Robert (American businessman and engineer) Anderson
• The wild man of Samoa: a tale from the graveyard of strangers
  by Joseph Kennedy
• Death by gluttony
  by Stephan Reebs
• Like water off a beetle's back: an African insect could show how to wring moisture from the fog—and let the sun shine on cloudy airports
  by Adam Summers
• Our stormy sun: what do refrigerator magnets, northern lights, and solar flares have in common?
  by Charles Liu
• Save a wolf, save a tree
  by Stephan Reebs
• The sky in February
  by Joe Rao
• A garden of benthic delights
  by Erin Espelie
• The sunspot chronicles
  by Joomi Kim
• Blossoms of ice: these delicate "flowers" sprout only in winter, but you won't find them catalogued in any herbal
  by D. Bruce Means
• Living with nature: everyday actions to sustain our planet
• Nasty, brutish, and short
  by Peter Brown
• Watered-down fish
  by Stephan Reebs
• Fighting HIV with HIV: in its zeal to keep competing viruses out of a cell it controls, the AIDS virus may have exposed its own vulnerability
  by T.V. Rajan
• Exploratorium/AMNH: play and learn
• Talking trash
• Frog find
  by Stephan Reebs
• Something fishy in the nest: in many fish species, dad does the caregiving. But some sneaky bluegill males have ways of avoiding the responsibilities of fatherhood
  by Bryan D. Neff
• Museum events: American Museum of Natural History
• A better mouse trap?
• "You gotta have skin"
  by Stephan Reebs
• Why must the poor be sick? Paul Farmer's exhortations sound familiar, and hopelessly idealistic, until you realize they are backed up by evidence and practical action
  by Jeffrey D. Sachs