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  1. Health & Medicine

    Creepy-Crawly Care

    Encouraging results from research on medical uses for maggots and leeches, coupled with recent government approval of both therapies, lend credibility to the idea that some live organisms deserve a place in the medical armamentarium.

    By Ben Harder

  2. Reworking Intuition

    Financially endangered companies rapidly reorganized to become profitable after key staff members ran simulated companies in 2-day sessions organized by a San Diego psychologist.

    By Bruce Bower
  3. Humans

    Letters from the October 16, 2004, issue of Science News

    Hubble grumble The cover type “Farewell to Hubble?” (“End of the Line for Hubble?” SN: 7/24/04, p. 56: End of the Line for Hubble?) makes me wonder why we haven’t seen the headline “Farewell to the Current NASA Administrator?” The only reason I have heard for the cancellation of the planned servicing mission is “it’s […]

    By Science News
  4. Humans

    From the October 13, 1934, issue

    A wingless rooster, production of artificial radioactive elements, and novae proposed as the origin of cosmic rays.