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Articles in Jan 5, 2008, issue of Science News

• Twinkle, twinkle: dark matter may have lit up first stars
  by Sarah C. Williams
• Keeping metabolic syndrome at bay
  by Patrick Barry
• Missing link
  by Virginia Brock
• Damage control: brain injuries fight off PTSD in vets
  by Bruce Bower
• Struck from above
  by Sid Perkins
• Do the math
  by Tom Reesor
• Whales started small
  by Sid Perkins
• An earlier thaw can trim winter logging
  by Sid Perkins
• The scenic route
  by Joanna Linden
• Addiction alleviator? Hallucinogen's popularity grows
  by Brian Vastag
• Reading the repeats: cells transcribe telomere DNA
  by Patrick Barry
• No-drive experiment curbs air pollution in Beijing
  by Sid Perkins
• Dental record
  by Christy Turner
• A different side of estrogen: second receptor complicates efforts to understand hormone
  by Sarah C. Williams
• 2007 Ad
  by Sid Perkins
• Not so spineless: behaviors we expect from animals—but quirks and personalities? Studies of spiders and insects say maybe
  by Susan Milius
• Snake Oil Science: The Truth About Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• New task: malaria drug might inhibit some cancers
  by Nathan Seppa
• Smog's heavy impacts
  by Janet Raloff
• Magical Moments of Change: How Psychotherapy Turns Kids Around
• Dear reader of Science News
  by Elizabeth Marincola
• Tiptoe acrobats get it just right
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
• wins independent press award
• Meetings
• What Is Emotion? History. Measures, and Meanings
• Plowing the ancient seas: iceberg scours found off South Carolina
  by Sid Perkins
• Milking performance from damaged brains
  by Patrick Barry
• Cosmological Enigmas: Pulsars, Quasars, and Other Deep-Space Questions