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Articles in Jan 1999 issue of Discover

• A Blow to the Brain
  by Jill Bolte Taylor
• Tomorrow's Tubes
  by Jeffrey Winters
• Birth Order
  by Sarah Richardson
• Forty Days and Forty Nights, More or Less - evidence of huge Middle East flood 7500 years ago - Brief Article
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• The El Nino Factor - El Nino weather pattern may be beginning of new weather patterns - Abstract
  by Carl Zimmer
• Take Me Back to Constantinople
  by Michael Hagmann
• The Chasm in Care - HIV infection is rampant in developing countries - includes related article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Forever Young - human embryonic stem cells
  by Sarah Richardson
• Off the Chart
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• A Tomb With View. - Brief Article - Review - book reviews
  by Shanti Menon
• Shoe Time
  by Shanti Menon
• Much Ado About Neutrinos
  by Jeffrey Winters
• Beating Breast Cancer - tamoxifen approved for prevention use - Brief Article
  by Lybi Ma
• Encore Portrait of Stars Near and Far
• The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance. - Brief Article - Review - book reviews
  by Margaret Foley
• The Iceman Goeth
  by Jessica Gorman
• Feathers Don't Make the Bird - fossil found in china appears to be a dinosaur with feathers - Brief Article
  by Josh Fischman
• Show of Hands - Australian receives first forearm transplant - Brief Article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Planets, Moons, a Supernova, and More
  by Jeffrey Winters
• The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture. - Brief Article - Review - book reviews
  by Jo Ann C. Gutin
• Grimness of Mythic Proportions - Jamestown colony experienced drought - Brief Article
  by Shanti Menon
• The Old Fish of the Sea
  by Josie Glausiusz
• The 11-year-old Debunker - child's experiment refutes 'therapeutic touch' - Brief Article
  by Jessica Gorman
• The Not-So-Near Miss - media coverage of asteroids - Brief Article
  by Jeffrey Winters
• Your Stars for 1999 - Brief Article
  by Bob Berman
• King Arthnou Was Here - Brief Article
  by Shanti Menon
• Searching for the First Animal
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• Hype and Hope - New York Times story raised false hopes in cancer patients - Brief Article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• The Moon, Mars, or Beyond? - former astronauts asked if they would return to space - Abstract
• Sexual Chemistry - discovery of viagra - Brief Article
  by Rosie Mestel
• Amber Ants
  by Michael Hagmann
• The River Wild - Yangtze River flood caused over 3000 deaths in 1998 - Brief Article
  by Jessica Gorman
• Erectus Afloat
  by Robert Kunzig
• The Genes of 1998 - genetic research on human genes - Brief Article
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Great New Products - Evaluation
• No, After You, Afarensis
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• Iris ID
  by Fenella Saunders
• Cumulina and Her Sisters - cloned mice - Brief Article
  by Mark Caldwell
• A Deadly Wave - Papua New Guinea hit by huge tsunami in 1998 - Brief Article
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• Fear of FLU - pandemic influenza outbreaks - Abstract
  by Patricia Gadsby
• E-maladies - computer viruses can be transmitted via E-mail due to software flaws - Brief Article
  by Corey S. Powell
• Blood Enemies
  by Fenella Saunders
• The Incredible Shrinking Atmosphere
  by Fenella Saunders
• THE GREAT Quantum NUMBER CRUNCHER - research into quantum computer networks - includes related articles on quantum physics - Abstract
  by David H. Freedman