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Articles in Oct 1995 issue of Discover

• Deadly coffee - coffee growing exposes Brazil's Surui Indians to fatal fungus disease - Brief Article
• The descent of birds
  by Carl Zimmer
• Batted about - getting to know and love bats - Light Elements
  by Jeffrey Kluger
• A small problem of propulsion - for interstellar spacecraft
  by Fred Guterl
• An inescapable buzz - otoacoustic emissions can cause hearing loss without ear damage - Brief Article
• Li'l laser - tiny, superefficient laser - Brief Article
• Tongue bugs - bacteria on tongue protect the body from infection
  by Sarah Richardson
• Robot, build thyself - envisioned society of self-replicating robots that fulfill much of society's needs
  by Thomas Bass
• Dr. Darwin - Darwinian medicine studies the evolutionary purpose of disease
  by Lori Oliwenstein
• Where's the rub? - unusual results measuring friction between atoms - Brief Article
• Plague and pal - grasshoppers release hormone that stimulates growth of plants they eat - Brief Article
• Vanishing stars - variable stars - Night Watchman - Column
  by Bob Berman
• Hypersea invasion - land life seen as an interconnected ocean of fluids
  by Carl Zimmer
• The sensitive touch - magnetic resonance force microscope will see individual atoms beneath surface of molecule
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Howl from the bowel - Mayan shamans may have used hallucinogenic enemas - Brief Article
• The worm turns - controlling nematodes by engineering crops with sex-determining gene - Brief Article
• A gift of the Gods - physicians prescribes new, untested treatment on patient with ovarian cancer - Vital Signs - Column
  by Stewart Massad
• The best computer in all possible worlds - mathematician David Deutsch wants to build a quantum computer based on the many-universe theory
  by Tim Folger
• Jack Farmer, exopaleontologist - plans search for fossils on Mars
  by Blake Edgar
• The bovine epidemic - artificial insemination may be spreading bovine immunodeficiency virus - Brief Article
• Ulcers from drinking? - ulcer-causing bacteria found may be spread by drinking water in Colombia
  by Sarah Richardson
• Scat song - Julie Constable isolates baboon DNA from dung to identify paternal lines - article in comic strip form - Science Classics - Column
  by Larry Gonick
• Wettestware - computing with DNA
  by Shanti Menon