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MUSCLE BOUND

Jun 01, 2009; ... My children tease me about my "fear" of giraffes. It all started after I visited the popular exhibition "Body Worlds," the creation of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens (www.bodyworlds.com/en.html). Even after viewing half a dozen "plastinated" and posed human cadavers, each one skinned and ...

ANGLING WITHOUT AN ANGLE

Jun 01, 2009; ... THE NATURAL EXPLANATION BY ERIN ESPELIE In the style of a lone, languid fisherman who infrequently casts a line, the typical anglerfish hunts by the motto, If you bait and wait, they will come. For most, that bait is conveniently built-in, near the mouth: the modified tip of a dorsal-fin ...

WORD EXCHANGE

Jun 01, 2009; ... Beauty before Brains The credit for photographer Thomas Vignaud, who took the opening image for "Brains of Beauties," by Paul S. Katz [5/09] , was inadvertently omitted. With 10 million times the neurons of sea slugs, the editors can offer no excuse. Linguistic ...

Fireproofing for a Flame

Jun 01, 2009; ... To beguile females, some males build mansions, others build bowers. Male great bowerbirds (Chlamydera nuchalis) of northern Australia erect two walls of twigs partially flanking a six-foot-long passageway that they pave with conspicuous bits of bones, stones, shells, and fruits. There, the males ...

Special-Occasion Dress

Jun 01, 2009; ... Caecilians are legless tropical amphibians that live mostly underground. Yet some of them sport bright stripes or solids in shades of yellow, pink, or blue-surprising, since visual signals aren't much use in their dark tunnels. The reason for such gaudy attire seems to lie in the recent ...