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This month in Odyssey.(Science Scoops)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... Alligators, such as the one pictured here, are the original "Keepers of the Everglades." Writer Mary Ann McGann describes why in her article "Knee Deep in the Glades," beginning on p. 32: When the dry season approaches and water levels decrease, the alligator uses its powerful ...

Flying high?(Science Scoops)(Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShip Two suborbital tourist vehicle)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... It's almost here. The ride you've been waiting for-suborbital flight! As reported in Popular Science, New Mexico-based Virgin Galactic--a company that plans to fly 500 passengers a year to an altitude of over 60 miles--has unveiled a mockup of its SpaceShip Two (SS2) suborbital tourist ...

Rare opportunity.(Science Scoops)(Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs rover Opportunity)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... The Martian rover Opportunity has been on the run since January 2004. That's rare; no one expected the little rolling robot to last so long. Now a high-resolution camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us another first: a never-before-seen bird's-eye view of ...

Sponge job.(Science Scoops)(Whitey Hagadorn et al. study microscopic embryo)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... More than 550 million years ago, thousands of microscopic animal embryos drifted into sea water laced with sulfur compounds. These sulfides killed the animals, but they also helped to preserve them as fossils. Discovered in South China in 1998, these rare fossils show exquisite ...

Watch out, energizer Bunny.(Science Scoops)(MIT is developing a micro-engine)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... Speaking of cutting-edge research going on at MIT, get this: Alan Epstein (Aeronautics and Astronautics Department) and his colleagues are working on putting a tiny, gas-turbine engine inside a silicon chip about the size of a quarter. The result will be a micro-electromechanical (MEM) ...

Intelligent mini-bots fly.(SCIENCE SCOOPS)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007 ... Swarms of intelligent unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may soon be helping the military in dangerous missions. UAVs already serve the military as "eyes in the sky" for battalion commanders planning maneuvers. But these hand-launched vehicles typically require a team of trained operators on ...

What's the matter.(Science Scoops)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... What happens if you mix matter with antimatter? If you said "annihilation," you're ... Well, maybe you should read on. You see, while it's a well-known fact that matter and antimatter don't mix (the two annihilate each other in a fierce burst of energy), physicists in Geneva, ...

The Everglades: paradise lost.

Mar 01, 2007; ... A LOW SUN BURNS ACROSS A VAST PRAIRIE of razor-sharp sawgrass bathed in shallow water. Dewdrops sparkle on webs spun by giant spiders amid the blades. The Sun climbs higher, and an alligator slips out of the marsh, lowering itself on a muddy bank; a great blue heron moves away on tiptoe ....

Ecology 101: will we pass the Everglade test?

Mar 01, 2007; ... IN 1900, AMERICANS AGREED THAT THE EVERGLADES was a disgusting swamp, and dreamed of draining it. By 2000, Americans had concluded that the Everglades was a national treasure, and launched an $8 billion effort to restore it. Our attitudes toward nature have changed so dramatically that the ...

Katrina's lesson.

Mar 01, 2007; ... THE EFFORTS TO RESTORE the Everglades are monumentally expensive and complex, but they pale in comparison to those needed to restore the rapidly vanishing wetlands of coastal Louisiana, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. When French soldiers founded New Orleans in 1718, ...

Can a wetland save a wetland? Engineers are helping to restore America's largest natural wetland by constructing the world's largest artificial one.(Activity to Discover)

Mar 01, 2007; ... IT'S 16,000 ACRES OF MARSHLAND, PLANTS, AND ANIMALS NEAR THE FLORIDA COAST. But this wetland is human-made. Welcome to southern Florida's Stormwater Treatment Area 3/4. A cornerstone of Everglades Restoration, STA 3/4 is the world's largest artificial wetland, built to help clean and ...

It's all about the water: an interview with hydrologist Christopher McVoy.(People to Discover)(Interview)

Mar 01, 2007; ... PEOPLE TOOK LESS THAN A CENTURY TO change the Everglades through drainage, construction, farming, and other activities. Now, the federal and state governments hope to restore part of the Everglades. But the project can't just "go with the flow" as it is now. To understand why, ODYSSEY ...

How would you save the glades?(Activity to Discover)

Mar 01, 2007 ... We understand what the Everglades used to be like. But trying to restore part of it gets very complicated. Engineering questions deal with how to accomplish different goals. However, different "fixes" all cost money. They could have other consequences, too. Social, political, and economic ...

Deck of cards.(Brain Strain)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007; ... You are sitting in a small hut in Everglades National Park, playing a game of cards. Your partner hands you a metric ruler and with a quizzical look asks, "If a pack of new playing cards measures 1.3 centimeters when you look at it sideways, what would the measurement be if all the kings ...

Taking care of home: the Miccosukee remember.

Mar 01, 2007; ... MICCOSUKEE INDIAN SCHOOL NESTLES within "the grassy waters." Noel Jim, a 12th-grade student at the school, can see the Everglades from her desk. "Without it, I would feel empty," she says. The Everglades fills the lives of many Native Americans, and for the small Miccosukee ...

Silent guardians: (inspired by tales of the Timucua, Seminole, and Miccosukee peoples).(Short story)

Mar 01, 2007; ... WHEN ALL THE ANIMALS lived in the Sky with the Creator, the world was no more than a large ball of mud. The Sky encircled the world. Occasionally, Wind and Rain would leave the Sky to visit the world, but they would always return to the comfort of the Creator's home. Beyond the Sky, ...

Knee deep in the glades.

Mar 01, 2007; ... MY COMPANION AND I ARE ANKLE DEEP IN FRIGID WATER SO MURKY THAT WE CAN'T SEE OUR FEET, when our guide on this off-trail trek through the Everglades calmly starts to tell us a slightly spine-tingling tale. "I was doing this last year," he says," ... and I told the visitors, ...

Your turn to help.(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007 ... Want to help preserve the fragile ecosystem of the Everglades? Everglades National Park has lots of ways for you to get educated and involved, from ranger-led pro grams to hands-on activities to teacher workshops. The park rangers also speak at area schools, youth groups, community ...

What does it take to be a cameback kid? Florida's alligators ... and panthers.

Mar 01, 2007; ... At the beginning of the 20th century, every pond, lake, and river in the Everglades had its fill of American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis). Some writers of the time said that if alligator heads were stones, it would have been possible to walk across a lake by stepping from one ...

Keeping tabs on the "pinks" of Florida bay.(roseate spoonbills)

Mar 01, 2007; ... On a warm April morning, an orange-red Sun rises to a full circle above the horizon on Florida Bay. It's 7 a.m., but six field biologists are already out in their boats, each headed for a different tiny mangrove island in the bay. Before the day is over, they will have slogged through ...

Here fishy, fishy, fishy!(Activity to Discover)(animal parenting)

Mar 01, 2007 ... How many times have you heard your parents A say that it's hard work raising kids? Too many times, right? Well, if you want "hard," try being a roseate spoonbill parent! Like human parents, both roseate spoonbills help in the raising of their young. Things zip along a lot faster ...

Nature walk with aliens!

Mar 01, 2007; ... You wouldn't expect to find a camel in Norway. Or a penguin in Paraguay. So what are trees from Australia, fish from Brazil, and snakes from Africa doing in the Everglades in Florida? Sure, they aren't from Mars--but they are aliens, just the same. Also known as exotics, ...

Star chart.(All-Sky Chart)(Brief article)

Mar 01, 2007 ... The monthly All-Sky Chart depicts the sky (minus the Moon) as it appears at 7 p.m. (your local time) on March 15. Useful all month (except for planet positions), the chart is also accurate for 8 p.m. on March 1 and 6 p.m. on March 31. To use the All-Sky Chart, first use a ...

A total lunar eclipse.(STARGAZING COMIC)(Brief article)(Cartoon)

Mar 01, 2007; ... ON SATURDAY, MARCH 3, THE EASTERN HALF OF NORTH AMERICA WILL EXPERIENCE A TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE OCCURS WHENEVER A FULL MOON GLIDES THROUGH EARTHS SHADOW. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AND WHEN THE MOON IS ...

You've got mail!(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2007; ... Dear ODYSSEY, I think that your magazine is the greatest! It makes science even fun than it already is. Keep up the good work! Now, on to my story expressing my opinion about whether animals have emotions or not that you asked for in the November "Boomerang" column. ...

Ask a scientist.(Letter to the editor)

Mar 01, 2007; ... In an interview with ODYSSEY in the November 2006 issue, "Science of emotions," Thomas Lewis, MD, assistant clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco's School of Medicine and author of A General Theory of Love discussed his theory. This is what one reader had to ...

Mana-tees.(ANIMAL ANGELS)

Mar 01, 2007; ... If I ran an Everglades souvenir shop, I would sell tee shirts with pictures of Florida's manatees (Trichechus manatus) on them. My "mana-tees" would feature these "sea cow" creatures. Manatees are roughly a cow's size (averaging about 10 to 12 feet in length and weighing about 1,000 ...

100MPH TRAIN CRASH HORROR ; Car driver dies as express ploughs into level-crossing

Mar 01, 2007;

John Terry health fear as he has third brain scan today

Mar 01, 2007

Blair signs up to EU crusade for energy from wind and waves

Mar 01, 2007;

RBS unveils profit rise to Pounds 9.4billion

Mar 01, 2007;

Tube trains to run until 1am in LU pay deal with unions

Mar 01, 2007;

Private equity firms 'need transparency'

Mar 01, 2007