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Articles in August 12, 2006, issue of Science News

• Need for speed: faster-acting tuberculosis drugs now in testing would limit deaths
  by N. Seppa
• Obsidian artifacts can record ancient climate
  by S. Perkins
• Disorder in the court
  by Nelson Marans
• Fish as farmers: reef residents tend an algal crop
  by S. Milius
• Glare gives silicon goose bumps
• Crouching scientist hidden dragonfly: monitoring insect lifestyles in the air and the mud
  by Susan Milius
• My Einstein: Essays by Twenty-Four of the World's Leading Thinkers on the Man, His Work, and His Legacy
• Outside looking in: researchers open new windows on Asperger syndrome and related disorders
  by Bruce Bower
• The Female Brain
• Braking news: disks slow down stars
  by R. Cowen
• Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface
• Bad vibrations? Ultrasound disturbs mouse brains
  by C. Brownlee
• Poor sleep can accompany schizophrenia
  by J. Raloff
• Blame It On the Rain: How the Weather Has Changed History
• Macho moms: perchlorate pollutant masculinizes fish
  by J. Raloff
• Blood sugar and spice
• To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead
• New view: method looks inside embryo fossils
  by S. Perkins
• Scientists find midnight-snack center in brain
  by C. Brownlee
• Dates of contention
  by David Adams
• Solar system small fry: stellar blinks reveal tiny bodies near Pluto
  by R. Cowen
• As glaciers shrink, the Alps get taller
  by S. Perkins
• No juicy story
  by Gregory Honchul
• Total recall: drug shows long-lasting boosts of memory in rats
  by E. Jaffe
• Blood clot protein is stretchiest natural fiber ever found
  by C. Brownlee
• Divide and conquer
  by David Clark