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Articles in Oct 6, 2007, issue of Science News

• No slippery slope: Physician-aided deaths are rare among those presumed vulnerable
  by B. Vastag
• They fertilized with what?
• The Red Volcanoes: Face to Face with the Mountains of Fire
• Match made in heaven: nearby galaxies resemble faraway type
  by R. Cowen
• Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
• Cat scam?
  by Julie Enevoldsen
• Fueling a flu debate: do vaccinations save lives among the elderly?
  by N. Seppa
• The Survival Imperative: Using Space to Protect Earth
• Bees' killer
  by Wally McMillan
• Just a quick bite
  by S. Williams
• Mind, Life, and Universe: Conversations with Great Scientists of Our Time
• Walk this way
  by John R. Grehan
• Shields down: a cancer-fighting gene declines in old age
  by P. Barry
• Space Art: How to Draw and Paint Planets, Moons, and Landscapes of Alien Worlds
• Numbers game
  by John M. Flanigan
• Crowcam: camera on bird's tail captures bird ingenuity
  by S. Milius
• Correction
• Neptune's balmy south pole
• Sputnik + 50: remembering the dawn of the space age
  by Ron Cowen
• Tough-guy bluebirds need a frontier
• Dangerous DNA: genes linked to suicidal thoughts with med use
  by B. Bower
• Iron to blame
• Stalking the green meat eaters: why ecologists love these toothless predators
  by Susan Milius
• Lake-bottom bounty: some Arctic sediments didn't erode during recent ice ages
  by S. Perkins
• Lonely white cells
• Hot stuff