August 1999

Learning to Love Neanderthals

Does the 25,000-year-old body of a child found in Portugal make it more likely that they are our ancestors?

by Robert Kunzig

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August

Departments

More Meteors, Please

August showers brings shooting flowers
 by Bob Berman

When Pills Kill

Her pulse was close to stopping. Was it the drugs she was taking?
 by Tony Dajer

Reviews

Air Conditioning America, the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.
 by Scott Kim

Sky Lights

August showers brings shooting flowers
 by Bob Berman

Vital Signs

Her pulse was close to stopping. Was it the drugs she was taking?
 by Tony Dajer

The Physics of ... Singing

How a simple cough made us musical.
 by Curtis Rist

Letters

What legacy do you leave: health and abundance, or a depleted, sickened world?'
 by Josie Glausiusz

Purple Passion

Most botanists in this country want to kill every single one of those gorgeous plants. Could they be wrong?
 by JoAnn C. Gutin

Learning to Love Neanderthals

Does the 25,000-year-old body of a child found in Portugal make it more likely that they are our ancestors?
 by Robert Kunzig

Bubble, Bubble

Gas trapped in liquid can lessen toil and trouble
 by Fenella Saunders

Kosovo Diary

An American physician in a land of refugees
 by Pamela Grim, Photographs by Steve Lehman

Alternative Medicine Man

Why so many doctors hate Andrew Weil
 by Brad Lemley, Photographs by Lynn Johnson