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Articles in May 21, 1994, issue of Science News

• Margarine is anything but marginal fat - U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers determine that margarine is the third leading source of fat - Brief Article
  by Janet Raloff
• Is this the way Bobby Fisher does it? - computer-generated images of chess players' thinking processes - Brief Article
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Call of the left brain - left hemisphere of rhesus monkeys' brains seems to process auditory communication - Brief Article
• Young scientists win big in Birmingham - 45th International Science and Engineering Fair held May 8 to 14, 1994, in Alabama - Brief Article
  by Tina Adler
• Seeing quantum leaps at room temperature - among electrons trapped in metal surfaces - Brief Article
  by Damaris Christensen
• 1958: not a bad year for ozone - lack of evidence for ozone hole in 1958 suggests ozone hole may be a natural phenomenon
• Trapping cold atoms in microwave webs - microwave radiation used to trap neutral cesium atoms - Brief Article
  by Ivars Peterson
• Images of inner space; art from a microscopic view of everyday materials - Cover Story
  by Richard Lipkin
• Dante to descend into Mt. Spurr - Dante robot to explore crater of Mt. Spurr, an active volcano in Alaska - Brief Article
• Clementine's spin may cancel asteroid visit - space probe traveling too fast to image asteroid 1620 Geographos
  by Bruce Bower
• What's in a cigarette? Tobacco companies blend hundreds of additives into their products
  by Janet Raloff
• A room of their own; finding the place where immune cells process undesirable proteins - new organelle discovered
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• Do antihistamines spur cancer growth?
  by Kathy A. Fackelmann
• The social brain: new clues from old skull - digital versions of Phineas Gage's skull suggests that iron rod wounded areas of frontal lobe responsible for personal and social behavior - Brief Article
  by Bruce Bower
• As the blind folds - double-blind procedures in psychotherapy and psychiatric drug research often ineffective