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- Health & Medicine
Weight Matters, Even in the Womb
Status at birth can foreshadow illnesses decades later.
- Materials Science
Making Stuff Last
Chemistry and materials science step up to preserve history, old and new.
- Math
Football’s Overtime Bias
The coin toss appears to play a significant role in deciding the winner in pro football's sudden-death overtime.
- Humans
Letters from the November 6, 2004, issue of Science News
Another view I suggest that world maps with countries colored by some statistical feature often would be more useful if done on a cartogram that is a compromise between population and size of countries, rather than on a map with a simple Mercator projection (“A Better Distorted View,” SN: 8/28/04, p.
