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  1. Health & Medicine

    Boning up with vitamin E

    Vitamin E may ward off osteoporisis—at least in mice.

    By Damaris Christensen
  2. Health & Medicine

    Saving fertility for cancer survivors?

    A compound called sphingosine-1-phosphate preserves fertility in female mice given radiation treatment.

    By Damaris Christensen

  3. Women show the ways to maturity

    A 39-year study finds three different patterns of healthy psychological development among women, each of which emphasizes particular goals and trade-offs.

    By Bruce Bower

  4. 18954

    I was surprised that the article “Dances with robots,” while mentioning Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers (1959, Putnam), should speak of “master-slave telerobotic devices.” As any fan of the dean of science fiction knows, these devices are most properly called Waldos.