Articles from Science News (December 23, 1989)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A perilous passage through volcanic ash.	Monastersky, R.		407
Another dietary advantage to fiber.			295
Ants get a transforming charge.	Weiss, Rick		238
Asian roaches enjoying Florida vacation.	Weiss, R.		628
Brain risk seen in sickle cell kids.	Weiss, R.		594
Cold fusion - or something.			180
Current advances: when aphids suck.	Weiss, Rick		140
Depressed ozone seen in Arctic.	Monastersky, Richard		216
Explaining and exploiting a winter worry.	McKenzie, A.		401
Forcing the details of contact charging.	Peterson, I.		393
Homing in on the longest animal.	Monastersky, Richard		378
Land of the midnight melons?			304
Making chicken wire of molecular size.	Amato, I.		460
Peatlands as source of acid rain.	Monastersky, Richard		249
Postponing red-cell retirement: can aging blood cells get a new lease on life?	Weiss, Rick		2026
Ritual clues flow from prehistoric blood.	Bower, B.		607
Science News of the year.			6455
South stays cooler in greenhouse models.	Monastersky, Richard		277
Study upgrades radiation risks to humans.	Raloff, J.		525
The color of geometry: computer graphics adds a vivid new dimension to geometric investigations.	Peterson, Ivars		1688
The natural roots of fiber optics: you needn't go far to find them.	Amato, Ivan		1330
Voracious turtle grabs a quick bite.	McKenzie, A.		251
Who says ants are airheads?	Weiss, Rick		171