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Articles in Sept 29, 2007, issue of Science News

• Keep out: treated mosquito nets limit child deaths
  by N. Seppa
• The Plentitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff
• Honeybee mobs smother big hornets
• Jungle down there: what's a kelp forest doing in the tropics?
  by S. Milius
• Water-saving grain
• Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination
• Double trouble: tumors have two-pronged defense
  by P. Barry
• Smoot's Ear: The Measure of Humanity
• Out-of-focus find
• Lack of evidence: vaccine additive not linked to developmental problems
  by B. Vastag
• Malaria's sweet spot
• "Live From Cape Canaveral": Covering the Space Race, From Sputnik to Today
• Bugs in space: genes explain why salmonella grow deadlier when freed from Earth's gravity
  by S. Williams
• Tea compound aids dying brain cells
• Sail away: tools reveal extent of ancient Polynesian trips
  by B. Bower
• Distracted? Tea might help you focus
• Electron superhighway: can graphene overtake silicon as the essential ingredient of computer chips?
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Questioning the surge
  by Mike York
• Meetings
• Clearly concerning: do common plastics and resins carry risks?
  by Janet Raloff
• Weighty opinions
  by Shawn Dehne
• Correction
• Not flipping out
• Credit due?
  by Karen Aiken
• Unexpected archive: mammoth hair yields ancient DNA
  by S. Perkins
• Exhaust fumes might threaten people's hearts
• The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do Everything Better