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  1. Don’t Let the Bugs Bite

    Using disease-control strategies based on genetic engineering, scientists are working to counter Chagas' disease, malaria, sleeping sickness, and other insectborne infections.

    By Ben Harder
  2. Humans

    Letters from the August 7, 2004, issue of Science News

    Pot shots Regarding “Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier” (SN: 5/22/04, p. 323: Pot on the Spot: Marijuana’s risks become blurrier), it seems to me that the stronger the social pressure against using marijuana in a culture, the more likely it will be that those who use it will be troubled, antisocial, or […]

    By Science News

  3. From the August 4, 1934, issue

    Hard landing for stratospheric balloon flight, record drought in the Midwest, and chemical sprays to combat fog.