Articles from Science News (December 21, 1996)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Antibiotic-eating germ alarms doctors.		Brief Article	234
Bee-friendly mistletoe gets needed help.	Raloff, Janet	Brief Article	533
Bold aim in stroke: spare the brain.	Sternberg, Steve		649
Coloring the cosmos; the sky's the limit.	Cowen, Ron		853
Cosmic carbon chemistry.		Brief Article	219
Elusive beasts dance high in the night sky.	Monastersky, Richard		620
Estrogen eases Alzheimer's symptoms.	Travis, John	Brief Article	220
Fetal cells tried for Huntington's.	Travis, John	Brief Article	346
Galaxies with magnetic personalities.		Brief Article	282
Gamma-ray bursts become a repeating puzzle.	Cowen, Ron		626
Homing in on the prostrate gene.		Brief Article	298
Laser beam triggers a membrane breach.	Peterson, Ivars	Brief Article	249
Master pianists mature well with practice.	Bower, Bruce	Brief Article	427
Materials in the Magic Kingdom; when it comes to science, Disney doesn't use a Mickey Mouse approach.	Wu, Corinna		2449
Robotic moth reveals key to insect flight.	Vergano, Dan	Brief Article	411
Scattered light reveals polymer wave motion.	Wu, Corinna	Brief Article	480
Sounds of the season: learning to pay attention to the sounds around us.	Peterson, Ivars		2034