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Articles in Oct 1997 issue of Discover

• The first thermometer - scholar Jacob Adler discovered a reference to a liquid-in-glass thermometer in a Hebrew text published in 1629 - Brief Article
• The man who loved trains - obsessional behavior
  by Keith Ablow
• Intel rewards America's most promising young scientists - the International Science and Engineering Fair - Special Advertising Section
• Bony ballast - amateur geologist Alan Dawn discovered an 150-million old skeleton of Pachycostasaurus dawni near Peterborough, England - Brief Article
• A gene for nothing - genetic research
  by Robert Sapolsky
• Buff rodents - molecular biologists Se-Jin Lee and Alexandra McPherron reported that mice bred without a specific gene had much larger muscle mass - Brief Article
• Portrait of a gene guy - genetic researcher Dean Hamer
  by Robert Pool
• Squid sex
• Scapegoat biology: as violence continues to ravage our society, researchers are raising hopes that science alone can save us from our worst natures - again - Cover Story
  by BettyAnn Kevles
• A better way to keep us off the grass - University of Stuggart physicist Dirk Helbing developed a computer model of pubic pathways and trails - Brief Article
• Lobotomy's back - controversial procedure is making a comeback
  by Frank T. Vertosick
• The bilingual brain - researchers Karl Kim and Joy Hirsch discovered people who learned a second language as a child use a different part of the brain than those who learned one as an adult - Brief Article
• Babies, bonds and brains - relationship between love and child development
  by Karen Wright
• Behaving ourselves - understanding human behavior - Editorial
  by Marc Zabludoff
• Robot nomad of the desert - NASA researchers tested a new space robot in Chile's Atacama Desert - Brief Article
• Family man - research on animal behavior and family structure
  by Will Hively
• Gourmanditis - stroke patients who develop a love for gourmet food
• Island Africa - genetic research on animals reveals surprising connections - Evolution Watch
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Against nature - human behavior that seems to have no adaptive advantage
  by Steven Pinker
• Failing flanks - researcher Benjamin van Wyk says most dormant volcanoes are structurally unstable and could pose a risk of collapse - Brief Article
• The plasma car wash - research on plasma applications - Technology Watch
  by Kathy A. Svitil
• It kills horses, doesn't it? - Borna disease
  by Robert Kunzig
• Ramming remnants - astronomer William Blair discovered that an unusual supernova in galaxy NGC 6946 was actually a collision between two twin stars - Brief Article
• The good bugs on our tongues - helpful bacteria
  by Josie Glausiusz
• Ball game: the sun and moon are round, but our sky has blobs, pumpkins, and footballs too - Night Watchman
  by Bob Berman