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Articles in Sept 9, 2006, issue of Science News

• On the rise: Siberian lakes: major sources of methane
  by S. Perkins
• Old drug can stop clots as well as newer drug does
• Through a dino's eyes
  by Herb Windolf
• Hey, roach babe: male cockroaches give fancy courting whistles
  by S. Milius
• Herpes simplex viruses dip in prevalence
• Whiff of danger?
  by George E. Burgoyne, Jr.
• Plowing down the Amazon: satellites reveal conversion of forest to farmland
  by B. Harder
• Sleep disorder tied to brain ills in kids
• The tooth, the truth
  by Theodore Blinder
• Rare Uranian eclipse
  by R. Cowen
• Plastics agent worsens skin allergies. phthalate
• Bad-news beauties: poison-spined fish from Asia have invaded U.S. waters
  by Janet Raloff
• Brave New Universe: Illuminating the Darkest Secrets of the Cosmos
• Too much deuterium? A chemical mystery in the Milky Way
  by Ron Cowen
• The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth
• Copycat monkeys: macaque babies ape adults' facial feats
  by B. Bower
• Stem cells sense stiffness
• This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
• Genes as pollutants: tracking drug-resistant DNA in the environment
  by A. Cunningham
• Radiant plasma may combat cavities
• Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong
• Problem paternity: older men seem more apt to have autistic kids
  by N. Seppa
• High-protein diets boost hunger-taming hormone
• The Best American Science Writing 2006
• Size matters: biosensors behave oddly when very small
  by E. Jaffe
• Are pollutants shrinking polar bear gonads?
• Brother bother
  by Rick Norwood