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Articles in Dec 16, 2006, issue of Science News

• A nano-cheese slicer
• Mismatch: Why Our World No Longer Fits Our Bodies
• The magnetic link between star and planet
• Freedom and Neurobiology: Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power
• Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
• Pesticides mimic estrogen in shellfish
• South African find gets younger
• Familiar pattern
  by Elaine Ellison
• Comet sampler: specimens show that inner and outer solar system mixed
  by R. Cowen
• Check the record
  by Barbara McElgunn
• Sniffle-busting personalities: positive mood guards against getting colds
  by B. Bower
• Neandertals' tough Stone Age lives
• Happy fish?
• They're at it again
  by Bill Van Sickle
• Hottest fixer: undersea-vent microbe sets nitrogen record
  by S. Milius
• Stem cells from bone marrow make new fat
• Collision course?
  by James Hendry
• Spread out: organic matter scatters carbon nanotubes in water
  by A. Cunningham
• A fair slice: new method makes for equitable eating
  by J.J. Rehmeyer
• Express delivery for cancer drugs
• Feel no pain, for real: mutation appears to underlie rare sensation disorder in a Pakistani family
  by C. Brownlee
• Peer review under the microscope: one journal's experiment aims to change science vetting
  by Christen Brownlee
• Catching flu's drift: vaccines fight unexpected influenza
  by B. Harder
• The Scientist As Rebel
• Salad doubts: preventing and controlling pathogens on produce
  by Aimee Cunningham
• The Remarkable Life of Explorer and Naturalist William Beebe