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Articles in Oct 28, 2006, issue of Science News

• Satanic winds: looking at dust devils on Earth and Mars
  by Sid Perkins
• Second Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge
• Feeling the heat of an extrasolar planet
• Why Choose This Book?: How We Make Decisions
• Itsy bitsy genome
• Surviving Prostate Cancer: What You Need to Know to Make Informed Decisions
• Why play dead? Rethinking what used to be obvious
  by Susan Milius
• Genome buzz: honeybee DNA raises social questions
  by S. Milius
• Electromagnetism could ease the flow in oil pipelines
• Slow down a minute
  by John A. Black, Jr.
• Gene might underlie travelers' diarrhea
• Med-start kids: pros, cons of Ritalin for preschool ADHD
  by B. Bower
• Who's watching whom?
  by Carolyn Cramoy
• Ivory-billed hopes flit to Florida
• Mastodons in musth: tusks may chronicle battles between males
  by S. Perkins
• Dengue strikes United States
• Cooling trend
  by Sara Head
• Lung scan: CT may catch some treatable cancers
  by N. Seppa
• Flu vaccine seems to work for kids under 6 months of age
• Vanishing devices: doctors implant disappearing stents, heart patches.
  by B. Harder
• Protecting against a difficult microbe
• Trimming down cancer: fat could hinder body's fight against disease
  by C. Brownlee
• The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
• A whale's tale: puzzling marine compounds are natural
  by J. Rehmeyer
• The Other Insect Societies