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Articles in Sept 1986 issue of Discover

• Old man river lightens up his load - lead in Mississippi River sediments
  by Sarah Boxer
• The case of the vagrant birds - or, left coast, here we come - bird migration - column
  by Jared Diamond
• Deciphering a hard to figure figure - Nazca Indian designs in Peru
  by Sarah Boxer
• The hard part was the hard parts - paleontological dig in Kenya
  by Pat Shipman
• The fall and decline of some Levant voles - lemming-like deaths in Israel
  by Sarah Boxer
• Not just another pretty face - naked mole rat
  by Elizabeth Pennisi
• The littlest dinosaur
• Unscrambling pay TV's new descramblers - HBO's new encryption system, Videocipher II
• The dark affliction of mind and body - mental depression
  by Winifred Gallagher
• Jesus's boat? a wreck that's becoming a relic - ancient boat wreck in the Sea of Galilee
• Old Ironsides and the big E - Eric Seidman, art director for Discover - editorial
  by Gilbert Rogin
• How fleas contribute to the economy - and dandruff - Light Elements - column
  by James Gorman
• A honey of a question: are bees intelligent? - Up Front - column
• 'Look, doctor, I'm dying. Give me the drug.' - AIDS drug, AZT
  by Denise Grady
• Current thinking about speciation of eels - Up Front
• The reason South Africa is rich in minerals - Science Behind the News
• How much bang for the buck? - inadequate field testing of weapons
  by Wayne Biddle
• When everything has been done that could have been done - Vital Signs - column
  by Perri Klass
• How to tackle hard subjects - science writer Gary Taubes - editorial
  by Gilbert Rogin
• Would you vote for a man who says he's no kin to an ape? - Creationism - Light Elements - column
  by James Gorman
• An electrifying possibility; a Swedish radiologist posits an astounding theory; the human body has the equivalent of electric circuits - Bjorn Nordenstrom
  by Gary Taubes
• They won't swear that it's the oath - oldest American printed document - Oath of a Freeman
  by Sarah Boxer
• Fundamental research vs. basic economics - science and politics - column
  by Daniel S. Greenberg
• New super glues are now in circulation - using glue to reinforce blood vessel walls
  by Sarah Boxer
• Hey, you 'ologists,' don't put down the dabblers
  by Gerald Weissmann
• Why drug testing can be a very bad trip - testing employee drug use
• The perplexing life of Erno Rubik
  by John Tierney
• A world where too many children don't grow up - India - column
  by Perri Klass
• 'When symptoms become the focus of your life.' - symptoms of mental depression
  by Winifred Gallagher
• An open or shut case - the universe's rate of expansion and it's age
• Through a lens, darkly: the most massive object ever discovered - black hole gravitational lens
• The fighter of the future - Israel's new jet, the Lavi
  by Peter Hellman
• It could have been an extremely grim fairy tale - poisonous toads - Up Front - column
• A way to neuter your nuclear weapon - permissive action links - Update
• A half-baked theory of how our brains grew? - Up Front
• Smoke hoods can give passengers a few critical extra minutes - Special Report: Airline Safety
  by David Nolan
• Through a glass, brightly - David Scharf and scanning electron microscopy - editorial
  by Gilbert Rogin
• The granola factor, or the track as a model ecosystem - horse-race track - Light Elements - column
  by James Gorman
• The perils of human selection: it hasn't been a teddy bears' picnic - "natural selection" in teddy bear marketing - Up Front
• The game of the name is fame. But is it science? - Stanley Prusiner, "discoverer" of prions
  by Gary Taubes
• They fly in the face of danger - risk assessment at NASA
  by Kevin McKean
• Brain bogglers - geometric puzzles - column
  by Michael Stueben
• Unnoteworthy notes - listing questions for doctor not sign of psychoneurosis
  by Sarah Boxer
• Art for science's sake - artistic depictions of scientific research; Lewis Calver - column
  by Gilbert L. Rogin
• DISH was their dish - diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in medieval monks
  by Sarah Boxer
• The gift of life must always remain a gift - organ donations and biotechnology industry
  by Thomas H. Murray
• Why cats are causing the decline of civilization - column
  by James Gorman
• The vaccine that may prevent pregnancy
• The several sorts of sorts - sorting objects
  by Hugh Kenner
• 1986 Ad
  by Gilbert L. Rogin
• Now we're all going to be doctors - matching medical students with programs
  by Perri Klass
• A shocking tale about dummies that smart - electrified dummies deter tiger attacks
• Waiting for the big one - earthquakes in California
  by Shannon Brownlee
• When anaesthesia fails to anaesthetize - patients feel and hear during operations - Up Front - column
• New bones to pick about osteoporosis and calcium supplements - Up Front
• A nude's revealing coat - Science Behind the News
• Some tips from experts on how to improve your chance of surviving
  by David Nolan
• Adding to electric costs: the retirement of brittle, old reactors - Up Front
• Everything's now tied to strings - superstring theory of universe
  by Gary Taubes
• Papal plea bargain, or was Galileo let off easy? - punished for Copernicanism instead of atomism - Up Front
• A mundane master of cosmic visions - science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem
  by John Tierney
• Voyager was on target again; in the latest unmanned triumph, Voyager 2 surveyed Uranus and sent back a real bull's-eye
  by Roger Overbye
• The irresistible vs. the immutable - Pat Shipman's paleoanthropological findings - column
  by Gilbert Rogin
• One of the most agonizing decisions a doctor can make - brain death in infants
  by Perri Klass
• A shepherd keeps order on Neptune's arc - undetected moons may hold Neptune's partial ring
  by Sarah Boxer
• Stalwart survivors of the death railway - health of Allied POWs of the Japanese
  by Sarah Boxer
• What destroyed Challenger? - space shuttle
  by Wayne Biddle
• Out of adversity came diversity - Hugh Kenner - editorial
  by Gilbert Rogin
• One, two, three strikes your dead in this old ball game - Barbara Isaac suggests that early man hurled stones for hunting and fighting - Up Front
• This nose knows when it smells the truth - Aroma Disc system
  by James Gorman
• From a mighty oak, a little radiation sprang - underground nuclear test may not have gone as planned
• Some of the worst quakes occur where you would expect them least - faults within plates
  by Allen Chen
• Changing attitudes about not changing baby - doctors examine baby without changing diaper - Vital Signs - column
  by Perri Klass
• The force that may be with us - or may not - mock gravity
• My first night on call: terror, exhilaration, exhaustion - pediatrician - Vital Signs - column
  by Perri Klass
• An African odyssey to save the elephant
  by David Western
• How to have your iguanas, and eat 'em too - iguana farming - Up Front
• How to envision the topology of a ten-dimensional universe - well, sort of
  by Gary Taubes
• The misguiding light: an eco of soap opera - baby sea turtles attracted to building lights - Update
• First it was 'save the whales,' now it's 'free the dolphins.' - animal rights activists - Opinion
  by Shannon Brownlee