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Wubbo De Jong/Het Parool from Sygma
s the result of an improperly
A cleaned test tube at a fertility
clinic, a woman in the Netherlands
gives birth to twin boys, each from
a different father.
In March, the Federal Drug
Administration approves a chicken-
pox vaccine. Rarely fatal,
chicken-pox affects 3.7 million

Americans annually.

rchaeologists discover a
A 3,000-year-old tomb in May
that is believed to hold the
remains of 52 sons of
Ramses II, Pharaoh of Egypt.
AP/Wide World

esearchers announce that
R they have isolated a gene in
mice linked to obesity. Mice
with a mutated OB gene are
injected with the hormone
leptin, resulting in dramatic
weight loss. The public is
tantalized at the prospect of
leptin as a slimming treatment
NASA for use in humans.
stunning photograph from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a
A moment in the birth of a star in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years
from Earth. Light from the young star's nuclear furnace lifts towering
pillars of hydrogen gas and interstellar dust.

Dr. Jeffrey Fried. Gamma/Liaison

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WE
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I. « J Fossils of a jawbone (left) and As a protective measure against
leg bone (right) found in Kenya
counterfeiting in the era of digital
in August reveal a previously
publishing, the Treasury
unknown species of upright
hominid that lived four million Department redesigns U.S.
The world’s first test-tube gorilla years ago, pushing the Media attention focuses on In a procedure known as tissue currency bills, to be issued over
is born at the Cincinnati Zoo in emergence of bipedalism back melatonin, a naturally occurring engineering, scientists grow a the next five years, starting early
October as part of an effort to half a million years. Walking hormone used to induce sleep human ear under the skin of a 1996 with the new $100 bill.
save the western lowland gorilla, upright is a key adaptation that and slow the effects of aging. laboratory mouse. Researchers
an endangered species that separates humans from apes. Lauded as a wonder drug, a hope the procedure will play an
numbers fewer than 450 animals. kilogram of synthetic melatonin important role in the future of
sells for as much as $10,000. transplant surgery.