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  1. Health & Medicine

    Cluster Buster: Might a simple sugar derail Huntington’s?

    A study in mice with a disease resembling Huntington's shows that a simple sugar impedes the protein aggregation that kills brain cells.

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  2. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Jan. 17, 2004, issue of Science News.

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  3. Animals

    Cheap Taste? Bowerbirds go for bargain decor

    When male spotted bowerbirds collect sticks and other doodads to wow females, they don't search for the rare showpiece but go for the cheap trinket.

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  4. 9/11’s Fatal Road Toll: Terror attacks presaged rise in U.S. car deaths

    Federal data indicate that fear of flying after the Sept.