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Articles in Dec 8, 2007, issue of Science News

• A sunlike star's early development
  by R. Cowen
• Botanists refine family tree for flowering plants
• Muons meet the Maya: physicists explore subatomic particle strategy for revealing archaeological secrets
  by Betsy Mason
• Errors of biblical proportions
  by Linda Wicklund
• Lettuce liability: programs to keep salads germfree raise wildlife and conservation concerns
  by Janet Raloff
• The influence of drugs
  by Tom Dubois
• Malaria's new guises
• Win by losing?
  by Angela Lambert
• Sickle save: skin cells fix anemia in mice
  by B. Vastag
• Divorce is not ecofriendly
• Big yawn
  by Irwin Tyler
• Chimp champ: ape aces memory test, outscores people
  by S. Milius
• Diabetes drug shows new potential
• Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
• The salt flat that isn't flat: world's largest playa sports ridges, valleys
  by S. Perkins
• Putting tumors on pause
• Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway
• 15 = 3 x 5: photons do their first quantum math
  by D. Castelvecchi
• Strategies to improve teaching
• The Story of Measurement
• Angiogenesis factors: tracking down the suspects in blood vessel growth near tumors
  by N. Seppa
• Tractor beam
• The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
• Perchlorate pump: molecule draws contaminant into breast milk
  by S. Williams
• Sharper than expected
• Birder's Conservation Handbook: 100 North American Birds at Risk