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Archive: Fall 2006

Features
	To Grow Hairy Scientists are untangling puberty’s central mystery: What combination of genes and environmental cues flips the switch? Full text \| pdf (1.23 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	The Quest For Quality Pay for performance seems simple: Give doctors financial incentives to improve care. So what’s taking so long? Full text \| pdf (2.28 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	The Addicted Brain Addiction significantly alters the brain, drawing drug users into its irresistible chemistry. Treatment, then, can’t just block the high. Full text \| pdf (1.31 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	The Anatomy Theater A cadaver, an anatomist and a press of onlookers in a sixteenth-century engraving inspire a twenty-first century verse. Full text \| pdf (980 KB) \| printer-friendly version

	Slime and The City Biofilms are microbial metropolises: teeming, diverse and, when attached to surgical implants, nearly impossible to subdue. Full text \| pdf (1.05 MB) \| printer-friendly version

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	Interview Kenneth Kamler Extreme Doctoring

	Infographic Health coverage for all

	On the Blogs For Caregivers, Heavy Cares

	The List New Tech for the Developing World

	Policy Watch Blood Feud

	Random Sampling Music in the OR

	Update Avian Flu, One Year Later

	Advances Mixed Signals

	By The Numbers Critical Condition

	Stat REGRET —that’s what many people with tattoos eventually feel...

	Milestones An Aural Art

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	First Person I Want to Stay Right Here

Our Readers Respond: Fall 2006

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