Articles from Science News (December 8, 2001)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A spice takes on Alzheimer's disease. (Biomedicine).		Brief Article	239
Africanized bees rescue loner trees. (Biology).		Brief Article	257
Antibiotic now tackles Parkinson's. (Biomedicine).		Brief Article	242
Beer-flavoring compounds guide insects. (Biology).		Brief Article	197
Delayed surgery aids spinal cord repair. (Science News of the week).	Seppa, N.	Brief Article	488
Drugs tested for Lou Gehrig's disease. (Biomedicine).		Brief Article	346
Female ducks can double eggs by trickery. (Science News of the week).	Milius, S.	Brief Article	405
Fly lends an ear to microphone design. (Science News of the week).	Weiss, P.	Brief Article	411
Gadgets from the quantum spookhouse: navigation devices and other technologies may gain from queer quantum effects.	Weiss, Peter Ulrich		2514
Human evolution put brakes on tooth growth. (Science News of the week).	Bower, B.	Brief Article	717
Knot possible: better ways to tell a tangled circle from a knotted loop.	Peterson, Ivars	Cover Story	1898
Low radiation hurts bystander cells. (Science News of the week).	Harder, B.	Brief Article	648
Neutrino shortage may signal new force. (Physics).		Brief Article	310
New epilepsy drug is possible. (Biomedicine).		Brief Article	233
New lizard ties for `world's smallest'. (Science News of the week).	Milius, S.	Brief Article	246
Nutty explanation. (Letters).	Blake, Richard S.		190
Shortest transistor makes its debut. (Physics).		Brief Article	305
Surprise! Fat proves a taste sensation. (Science News of the week).	Raloff, J.	Brief Article	438
Synthetic molecules mimic bone growth. (Science News of the week).	Gorman, J.	Brief Article	289
Thinking the way to stronger muscles. (Biomedicine).		Brief Article	110
Tiny bubbles in the brine. (Letters).	Bradley, Craig		80
Why on earth? (Letters).	Jones, Henry		73
X-ray craft sees Venus in whole new light. (Science News of the week).	Cowen, R.	Brief Article	360