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Articles in Feb 16, 2008, issue of Science News

• Bird fads weaken sexual selection
  by Susan Milius
• Nanocrystal
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Flying deaf? Earliest bats probably didn't echolocate
  by Sid Perkins
• Caffeine intake tied to miscarriage
  by Nathan Seppa
• Drug running: bust nets suspects in counterfeit antimalaria trade
  by Nathan Seppa
• Heed your elders, survive a tsunami
  by Sid Perkins
• Animal origins: genome reveals early complexity
  by Amy Maxmen
• Handbook to Life in the Aztec World
• New World stopover: people may have entered the Americas in stages
  by Bruce Bower
• Going the distance: galaxies may hail from early universe
  by Ron Cowen
• The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire
• Swell, a pain lesson: gut microbes needed for immune development
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
• Where stars are born
  by Ron Cowen
• The Little Book of Pandemics
• Don't like it hot
  by Susan Milius
• Red Prometheus: Engineering and Dictatorship in East Germany, 1745-1770
• Weighty evidence: the link between obesity, metabolic hormones, and tumors brings the promise of new targets for cancer therapies
  by Laura Beil
• Inert placebo?
  by Carson Barnes
• Extreme measures: Atom interferometry's precision could make it the Swiss Army knife of physics
  by Ewen Callaway
• Time of death
  by Carl B. Mankinen
• More evidence that flies sleep like people
  by Tina Hesman Saey
• Survival of the bravest
  by Robert Stenton