THE WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE OF SCIENCE
SCIENCE
NEWS
NOVEMBER 11, 2006 VOL. 170, NO. 20
314
Features
312 The Antibiotic Vitamin
Deficiency in vitamin D may
predispose people to infection
by Janet Raloff
314 Brave Old World The debate
over rewilding North America
with ancient animals
by Eric Jaffe
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307 Malaria drug regains
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316
Curry may counter
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Dementia warning
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307 Service industries emit
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308 Tracking paths
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308 Immature cells boost
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309 Peppers and spiders
reach same pain receptor
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309 New eye on the sun
by Ron Cowen
309 Several veterinary drugs
may kill scavenger birds
by Susan Milius
310 Tiny wind generator to
cool microchip hot spots
by Peter Weiss
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Meetings
318
Rodents tell a geologic tale
DNA analysis reveals
extinct type of wolf
Society sans frills
Early tetrapod likely
ate on shore
Departments
319 Books
319 Letters
Cover A new conservation plan called
Pleistocene rewilding suggests
reintroductions of megafauna species
that lived in North America thousands
of years ago. (Dean MacAdam) Page 314
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