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Articles in Feb 23, 2008, issue of Science News

• Eye protection: antibiotic knocks back blinding disease
  by Nathan Seppa
• Spying asbestos
  by Janet Raloff
• On top of words: spatial language spurs kids' reasoning skills
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• People bring both risk and reward to chimps
  by Susan Milius
• Defining toxic: federal agencies look to cells, not animals, for chemical testing
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Teeth Wings
• Energy in motion: how the nanomachines of life harvest randomness to do the cells' work
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• The Void
• Cancer drug limits MS relapses
  by Nathan Seppa
• Internet seduction: online sex offenders prey on at-risk teens
  by Bruce Bower
• How to Fossilize Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments for the Armchair Scientist
• Jelly propulsion: studies of medusan motion reveal secrets of the Earth's first muscle-powered swimmers
  by Rachel Ehrenberg
• Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History
• Birds network too
  by Davide Castelvecchi
• Stars & Planets: The Most Complete Guide to the Stars, Planets, Galaxies, and the Solar System
• Benign—not: unexpected deaths in probiotics study
  by Janet Raloff
• It takes a village of proteins
  by Patrick Barry
• Music of sound
  by Peter Klausmeyer
• Going down: climate change, water use threaten Lake Mead
  by Sid Perkins
• From China, the tiniest pterodactyl
  by Sid Perkins
• Chill factor
  by Gene Barth
• Stellar switch: sun not alone in making magnetic flip-flops
  by Ron Cowen
• Organic ring around nearby star
  by Ron Cowen