Articles from Science News (August 10, 1996)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A food preservative from what?		Brief Article	240
Ballooning over the Amazon.		Brief Article	252
Bomb testers beware: trace gases linger.	Skindrud, Erik	Brief Article	591
Counting millions of electrons, one by one.	Peterson, Ivars	Brief Article	309
Electricity used to test composites.		Brief Article	270
From exotic to erotic: roots of sexual orientation found in personality, childhood friendships.	Bower, Bruce		2037
Genome sequenced for skin disease virus.	Travis, John		581
Get Granddad to take his vitamin E.		Brief Article	343
Honey, I shrank the hormone.		Brief Article	162
Legionella kin found, linked to pneumonia.	Sternberg, Steve.	Brief Article	432
Making silver film fall flat.		Brief Article	286
Meteorite hints at early life on Mars.	Cowen, Ron		891
Mongolian quake lessons for Los Angeles.		Brief Article	340
Panel embraces xenotransplants.		Brief Article	119
RNA world begins to add up.		Brief Article	287
Unusual fats lose heart-friendly image.	Raloff, Janet		604
Vanishing flesh: muscle loss in the elderly finally gets some respect.	Raloff, Janet	Cover Story	2105
Yeast peptide goes forth and multiplies.	Wu, Corinna		604