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Articles in May 1987 issue of Discover

• A new international lending environment - World Bank loan rules
  by Gina Maranto
• The little airplane that could - Mastiff, a remotely piloted vehicle
  by Peter Hellman
• Itching to know why man ages? Mosquitoes may help us find out - up front - free radical theories
  by Sarah Boxer
• He's the wisest of the wise guys
  by Edward Dolnick
• The venerable condoms of Dudley Castle
• Can heart disease be reversed?
  by Denise Grady
• Why don't we eat bugs? They're too expensive
  by Sarah Boxer
• These are real swinging primates; there's a good evolutionary reason why the rare muriqui of Brazil should heed the dictum 'make love, not war.'
  by Shannon Brownlee
• Bugged by an ulcer? You could have a bug
  by Gina Maranto
• Seduced by the pure music of virgin commies - vacuum tube brand from the U.S.S.R
  by Wayne Biddle
• All's not quiet on the Northwestern front - earthquakes
  by Sarah Boxer
• The ticking of a time bomb in the genes - Huntington's disease, includes related article
  by Denise Grady
• How to go whole hog for delicious pork
  by Sarah Boxer
• Our backs against the bomb, our eyes on the stars
  by Rusty Schweickart
• Made in the shade? No way - Antarctic ozone hole, includes related article
  by Gary Taubes
• Now here's a real headache for lovers - headaches caused by orgasm
  by Gina Maranto
• The growing danger from gene-spliced hormones
  by Thomas Murray
• Why the old alibi just won't fly for these unfaithful penguins - up front - infidelity may help breeding success
  by Sarah Boxer
• A hidden cost of military research: less national security - science and politics
  by Daniel S. Greenberg
• Here come the brides, but in what numbers?
• The myths and perturbing realities of cannibalism
  by Pat Shipman
• The game of chicken may lead to nuclear war
  by Sarah Boxer
• Arms control pacts can be verified - includes related article
  by Kosta Tsipis
• The meticulous melancholia of a poet - William Cowper
  by Gina Maranto
• Are cats smart? Yes, at being cats - includes related articles
  by Penny Ward Moser
• Today a frozen dog, tomorrow the iceman - Miles, a beagle
  by Sarah Boxer
• Unraveling another Mayan mystery - food production
  by Allan Chen
• His howl is a lot worse than his bite - wolves
  by Sarah Boxer
• When happens when hubris meets nemesis - topology, includes related article
  by Gary Taubes
• What is the sound of two hands clapping?
  by Sarah Boxer
• An anti-aging cream with a new wrinkle: it may work
  by Penny Ward Moser
• The fallibility of science - and scientists - tendency to put scientists on pedestals - editorial
  by Gilbert L. Rogin
• Why lithium is doubly effective - perhaps - for manic-depressives
  by Gina Maranto
• It must have been something you ate - salmonella
  by Penny Ward Moser
• Fast comeback for a quarterback with a bad back - science behind the news - Joe Montana
• Play the right bases and you'll hear Bach - Susumu Ohno has assigned musical notes to nucleotide bases
• Russia is for the birds; whether they're keeping crows off the Kremlin domes or making hit bird song records, Soviet bioacousticians have their country's ear
  by Jeffery Boswall
• A link between the brains of mice and men - brain lateralization
  by Sarah Boxer
• Plumbing the depths of a lethal lake - Lake Nyos, Cameroon
  by Gina Maranto
• A 'what you see is what you beget' theory - includes related articles
  by Tony Rothman
• A future danger: hothouse hurricanes? - greenhouse effect
  by Sarah Boxer
• The grounds for a test ban treaty - includes related article
  by Glenn Garelik
• Life from outer space, or panspermia redux
  by Sarah Boxer
• This the way the world ends
  by Tony Rothman
• The existential decision of a sperm - sea urchin
  by Sarah Boxer
• The parable of the cheek-turners and the cheek-smiters - self-destructive behavior
  by Sarah Boxer
• Mathematicians and SDI: a quandary - Strategic Defense Initiative
• Here's a shocker: a contraceptive with electric potential - invention
  by Tom Dworetzky
• Unwelcome immigrant: the Asian cockroach
• Light cast on a darkling gene - retinoblastoma
  by Natalie Angier
• Feeling sleepy? Shhh! Bacteria at work
  by Sarah Boxer
• The environment gets a break as well
  by Gina Maranto
• Now here's a case of you eat what you are - cannibalism in mosquito fish
  by Sarah Boxer
• The outcasts from the caribbean - off shore medical school graduates
  by John Langone
• AIDS epidemiology: women and drugs
  by Sarah Boxer
• Fast food freaks, this will do your heart good - nondigestable fat
  by Tom Dworetzky
• The little suckers have made a comeback - leeches
  by Richard Conniff
• How an old crab could keep you in stitches - recycling discarded crab shells
  by Tom Dworetzky
• A sailor with wide horizons - from the editor - Fred Golden
  by Gilbert Rogin
• Your child is in the hospital, and you're blanketed by guilt - vital signs - column
  by Perri Klass
• The stock market catches a big wave - Elliott Wave Principle
• The America's Cup yacht of the future
  by Tom Dworetzky
• A new tape to record your favorite numbers - digital audio tape
  by Tom Dworetzky
• If you have a singular pain, be sure to say so - doctor patient relationship
  by Sarah Boxer
• The American blitzkrieg: a mammoth undertaking
  by Jared Diamond
• New life for a cell: the ceramic solution
  by Tom Dworetzky
• Why pessimism is better than optimism - on a global scale - column
  by James Gorman
• A way with words - and music - Peter Hellman - editorial
  by Gilbert Rogin
• Dying in character: the myth of the impish chuckle
  by Perri Klass
• The notion that we've entered a second baby boom is a bust - up front
  by Sarah Boxer
• My beef about micro pig, and your stake - or chop - in it - light elements - very small pigs - column
  by James Gorman
• Opening new frontiers in molecular biology
  by Tom Dworetzky
• Wheezer in the E.R.: musings on a cookbook admission; asthma is so common among children, the treatment so routine, that it has become, disquietingly, a disease without a face - column
  by Perri Klass
• Baby came in sick, baby getting better, baby go home soon - column
  by Perri Klass
• What happens when the boss is a baboon
  by Sarah Boxer
• Where has all the fragrance gone? - roses
  by Mayo Mohs
• Prehistoric pelvis: bones of contention - pterosaurs
  by Sarah Boxer
• Then I had this day that was one rape after another - in a hospital emergency room - column
  by Perri Klass
• What I know now that I didn't know a year ago - after a medical internship - column
  by Perri Klass
• Are autistic children high on themselves?
  by Gina Maranto