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Articles in May 12, 2007, issue of Science News

• This trick boosts cancer's spread
• Alzheimer's marker yields blood test
• A lot of living to do
  by Henry Dieter Weinschel
• A smart pill for seniors?
• Lethal injection is inhumane, say researchers
• Poacher prevention
  by Buz Craft
• Sex—perhaps a good idea after all
• Risk factor: throat cancer linked to virus spread by sex
  by N. Seppa
• Cell of Cells: The Global Race to Capture and Control the Stem Cell
• No place like om: meditation training puts oomph into attention
  by B. Bower
• What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable
• Degrees of quantumness: shades of gray in particle-wave duality
  by D. Castelvecchi
• Soaring With Fidel: An Osprey Odyssey from Cape Cod to Cuba and Beyond
• Cells' root: adult stem cells have a master gene
  by P. Barry
• Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
• Stellar spectacular: brightest supernova
  by R. Cowen
• Invisible trail: analyzing the vortices in the wake of a bat
  by S. Perkins
• Why Beauty Is Truth: A History of Symmetry
• Extreme encyclopedia: every living thing will get its own page
  by S. Milius
• The hunt for antihelium: finding a single heavy antimatter nucleus could revolutionize cosmology
  by Patrick Barry
• Saw right through it
  by Nathaniel L. Cohen
• Cancer patients aided by yoga
• Egg shell game: chicks' sex isn't just a matter of chance
  by Susan Milius
• Like dog years?
  by Bruce Bartleson