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4 THE NATURAL MOMENT 



Gill of Newt 



Photograph by Rene Krekels 



6 UP FRONT 



Editor's Notebook 



8 CONTRIBUTORS 

 10 LETTERS 



12 SAMPLINGS 



News from Nature 



16 FIELD NOTES 



Traveling Green 

 Carol Goodstein 



22 LIFE CYCLES 



The Other Kinsey Report 

 Peter Del Tredici 



26 BIOMECHANICS 



Keep Me Hanging On 

 Adam Summers 



48 BOOKSHELF: 



SUMMER READING 



Science Most Foul 

 Laurence A. Marschall 



53 nature.net 



Reptilophilia 

 Robert Anderson 



54 OUT THERE 



Deceptive Nebulous Apparition? 

 Charles Liu 



58 THE SKY IN JULY AND AUGUST 



Joe Rao 



60 AT THE MUSEUM 



64 ENDPAPER 



Hard Labor at Bear Gulch 

 Eugene H. Kaplan 



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