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Articles in August 1999 issue of Discover

• Ask the Wizard - Questions and Answers - Brief Article
• Kosovo Diary - diary of an American physician with refugees
  by Pamela Grim
• RESOURCES
• Storm Trooper - meteorology - Brief Article
• LANDMARKS
• A House Divided - Brief Article
  by Scott Kim
• Faking It - research on sexual behavior of birds and buffaloes - Brief Article
• Asteroids Amok - Brief Article
• bubble, bubble - soap bubbles
  by Fenella Saunders
• Slow Pain Coming - messages from sense organs take varying lengths of time to get to the brain; experiments are included - Brief Article
  by Eric Haseltine
• Swimming Trunks - research findings on elephants - Brief Article
• Operation Sting - honeybees used to seek out land mines and gold mines - Brief Article
• Alternative Medicine Man - Internet audio program 'Doc Talk' and Andrew Weil
  by Brad Lemley
• A Pill for Diabetics - Brief Article
• Spare Parts - growing human organs from human cells
  by Josie Glausiusz
• How Now, Sow Bug? - sow bugs are not insects
  by Patricia Gadsby
• LETTERS
• WRIST-WATCHER - Brief Article
• Musical Muscles - use vocal cords
  by Curtis Rist
• Learning to Love Neanderthals - 25,000-year-old child's body found in Portugal
  by Robert Kunzig
• Good-bye, Dolly? - cloning failures continue to be significant, such as a death rate of almost 50% for cloned calves - Brief Article
• Robo-Doc - designing robots to aid during surgery - Brief Article
• A Charm's Life - Lucky Charm's cereal
  by Karen Wright
• purple passion - purple loosestrife plants
  by Joann C. Gutin
• Baby Big Bangs - possible observation of hypernova aftermath - Brief Article
• Moonstruck Druids - depictions of the moon in the Knowth tomb built by Druids in Ireland - Brief Article
• When Pills Kill - calcium channel blockers side effects
  by Tony Dajer
• Stay Cool! - air conditioning - Brief Article
  by Polly Shulman
• Mayday, Mayday - fires, resulting from aircraft accidents, may be made safer by the use of a plastic called PHA - Brief Article
• A Terrible Thing to Waste - Brief Article
• More Meteors, Please - meteor showers - Brief Article
  by Bob Berman
• The Life of Birds - Review
  by Wendy Marston
• Dead Dinosaurs Walking - a study of modern-day turkeys reveals that their walking pattern is the same as dinosaurs that made 200 million year old petrified footprints - Brief Article
• Science Myths - earth's distance from sun - Brief Article
• Caring for the Kosovars - physician Pam Grim volunteers with Doctors of the World - Brief Article
• Fearsome Fauna: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Live in You - Review
  by Fenella Saunders