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Articles in Jan 12, 2008, issue of Science News

• Smoking ups risk for type 2 diabetes
  by Brian Vastag
• Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
• Risky DNA: autism studies yield fresh genetic leads
  by Bruce Bower
• Purring birds teach their chicks to beg
  by Susan Milius
• Shades of meaning
  by Stephen E. Silver
• Hued afterglow: fingerprinting diamonds via phosphorescence
  by Sid Perkins
• The warm jungles of ancient France
  by Sid Perkins
• Hedge fund
  by Roger W. Otto
• Mind control: hypnosis offers amnesia clues
  by Amy Maxmen
• Foster care benefits abandoned kids
  by Bruce Bower
• Word of pain
  by Pol Shwingk
• Heavy find: weighty neutron stars may rule out exotic core
  by Ron Cowen
• Down syndrome's anti-tumor effect
  by Nathan Seppa
• Postfix for a prefix
  by Allison B. Moore
• Seeing again: blind fish parents have fry that see
  by Susan Milius
• Energy forest
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Positive signal: lone protons carry messages between cells
  by Patrick Barry
• Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming
• Bathtub optics: bending light also shifts it sideways
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein
• La Brea Del Sur: the fossil-rich tar pits of Venezuela may rival those of Southern California
  by Sid Perkins
• Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
• Life from scratch: learning to make synthetic cells
  by Patrick Barry
• Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages