Articles from Science News (December 22, 1990)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Early results of gene therapy encouraging.	Weiss, Rick		616
Exploring ceramic vaccines, drug carriers.	Amato, Ivan		448
Fingerprints in the sand: federal agents use dirty evidence against archaeological thieves.	Monastersky, Richard	Cover Story	2174
New and primordial role for ribozymes?	Chen, Ingfei		455
Pinpointing Utah's seismic threats.	Monastersky, Richard		221
Plants bite back: insect-infested hosts starve out unwanted guests, and may even warn their neighbors.	Chen, Ingfei		2259
Poetry lessons: bridging the chasm between the sciences and the humanities.	Peterson, Ivars		2255
Proven path for limiting shortest shortcut.	Peterson, Ivars		651
Rat removal converts shrublands to grass.	Cowen, Ron		542
Reading climate changes in an Ice Age map.	Monastersky, Richard		551
Redesigning the U.S. space program.			587
Science news of the year.			6477
Some autism tied to rare fetal disorders.	Bower, Bruce		411
The seismograph: a new home appliance?	Monastersky, Richard		196
Watching the next Hawaiian island.	Monastersky, Richard		186
Women and kids join the cholesterol fray.	Fackelmann, Kathy A.		513