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Articles in Oct 7, 2006, issue of Science News

• U.S. population to surpass 300 million
• Cigarettes and lead linked to attention disorder
• Silky feet
  by Aimee Cunningham
• The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
• Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
• Krill kick up a storm of ocean mixing
  by Susan Milius
• The New Psychology of Love
• Correction
• Improving the view: treatment reverses macular degeneration
  by N. Seppa
• Jet set: astronomers identify the makeup of quasar streams
  by R. Cowen
• The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World
• Shop until you can't stop: compulsive buying affects both men and women
  by B. Bower
• Venting concerns: exploring and protecting deep-sea communities
  by Janet Raloff
• Driving to Mars
• Hot, hotter, hot: climate seesawed during dinosaur age
  by J. Rehmeyer
• Cell surface stories: miniature electrodes probe diminutive domains
  by Aimee Cunningham
• 2006 Ad
• A discordant name for a dwarf planet
  by Ron Cowen
• Wasting deer: deer saliva and blood can carry prions
  by S. Milius
• Reading the tale of an ancient river
• Oversize supernova
  by Ron Cowen
• Bad Alzheimer's proteins sow disorder in the brain
  by Christen Brownlee