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I Spy 



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Editor's Notebook 



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29 SAMPLINGS 



News from Nature 



34 UNIVERSE 



When the Moon Hits Your Eye 

 Neil deGrasse Tyson 



40 BIOMECHANICS 



Secrets of the Sacred Lotus 

 Adam Summers 



62 THIS LAND 



Green Fingers 

 Robert H. Mohlenbrock 



64 BOOKSHELF 



Laurence A. Marschall 



67 nature.net 



New Moon 

 Robert Anderson 



70 OUT THERE 



Crash! 

 Charles Lin 



74 THE SKY IN APRIL 



Joe Rao 



76 AT THE MUSEUM 



80 ENDPAPER 



Chernobyl Paradox 

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