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Articles in Sept 10, 2005, issue of Science News

• The Xeno Chronicles: Two Years on the Frontier of Medicine inside Harvard's Transplant Research Lab
• Thinking the hurt away: expectations hitch ride on pain's brain pathway
  by B. Bower
• The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
• Top of the Martian hill
  by R. Cowen
• Pennies in heaven?
  by P.M. Delaubenfels
• Hunger: An Unnatural History
• Time for testing
  by Les Coleman
• Critical for coating: protein directs nerve-sheath construction
  by N. Seppa
• Dino Wars: Discover the Deadliest Dinosaurs, Bloodiest Battles, and Super Survival Strategies of the Prehistoric World
• Perfect match: tied contest gives fish no hormone rush
  by S. Milius
• Dead tired: weary doctors function as if intoxicated
  by B. Harder
• What's That Bird? Getting to Know the Birds around You, Coast to Coast
• Relatively straightforward
  by Arra Avkain
• Electronics gets Y's: nanotubes branch out as novel transistors
  by P. Weiss
• When flu flies the coop: a pandemic threatens
  by Ben Harder
• Deep impact: a spacecraft breaks open a comet's secrets
  by Ron Cowen
• Protein fingered in rare psychosis
• Body-fluid battery
• Cancer-fighting e-mails
• Hurricane provisions
  by J.A. Miller
• Correction
• Rooting out hidden HIV