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Articles in Oct 14, 2006, issue of Science News

• Messiness rules: in high dimensions, disorder packs tightest
  by J. Rehmeyer
• Fuzzy maybe, warm no
  by Daniel Woitulewicz
• Hotel-room surfaces can harbor viruses
• Well traveled: gene split arose early in domesticated goats
  by B. Bower
• Meetings
• Courting costs: male prairie dogs seem too busy mating to dodge predators
  by S. Milius
• Many infections tied to medical settings
• Pretty in pictures: details of molecular machinery gain Nobel
  by A. Cunningham
• King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
• Enigmatic eruption: the strange case of V838 Monocerotis
  by Ron Cowen
• The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films
• Warming up to hyperthermia: heat therapy could improve existing cancer treatments
  by Christen Brownlee
• Nearly naked: large swath of Pacific lacks seafloor sediment
  by S. Perkins
• The Demon Under the Microscope
• Ancient hot spell is linked to copious carbon dioxide
• Codebreaker: The HiStory of Codes and Ciphers, from the Ancient Pharaohs to Quantum Cryptography
• Statins defend against fungus-caused sepsis
• Smoke out: bartenders' lungs appreciate ban
  by N. Seppa
• Right brain area linked to fairness
• Name game
  by Charles D. Shuster
• Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape
• Life blood: drug stops mothers' bleeding after births
  by C. Brownlee
• A nanotechnology report card
• Behind the IQ numbers
  by Richard B. Mott
• Teasing apart nanotubes: fast-spun carbon fibers may feed an industry
  by P. Weiss
• Novel approach fights leprosy
• Whom do you trust?
  by Molly Weeks