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Articles in August 25, 2007, issue of Science News

• The origins of immunity?
• Lithium might help bone healing
• It's not nice to fool Mother Nature
• Map yields new view of ancient city
• First line of defense
  by William K. Hayes
• Vaccine targets ovarian-cancer cells
• Death defining
  by Ron McMurtry
• Frizzed molecular carpets
• The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey through a Century of Biology
• Infectious obesity: adenovirus fattens stem cells
  by B. Vastag
• Where did the chicken cross?
  by Tom Mallard
• If you can stomach it: obesity surgery extends life span
  by N. Seppa
• A Natural History of Time
• High volume, low fidelity: birds are less faithful as sounds blare
  by S. Milius
• A guy thing
  by Jaime Hunter
• Groomed for trouble: mice yield obsessive-compulsive insights
  by B. Bower
• Fear of Physics: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Separation anxiety: cosmic collision may shed light on dark matter
  by R. Cowen
• Correction
• O river deltas, where art thou? Coastal sinking stalls sediment accumulation
  by S. Perkins
• What's Science Ever Done For Us? What The Simpsons Can Teach Us about Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe
• Crueltyfree: counting photons without killing them
  by D. Castelvecchi
• Cellulose dreams: the search for new means and materials for making ethanol
  by Corinna Wu
• The Third Domain: The Untold Story of Archaea and the Future of Biotechnology
• Fire inside: structural design with fire safety in mind
  by Carolyn Barry
• Tail singers
• Cat disease associated with flame retardants