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Science News Summary T U E S D A Y | October 5, 1999
Mount St. Helens, Two Decades Later 
Nearly 20 years after Mount St. Helens’ cataclysmic eruption, plants and animals have returned to the slopes, giving scientists a unique natural laboratory for looking at both a volcano and the healing of nature.
Getting a Grip on Sprawl Sick of the effects of the endless suburb: clogged roadways, endless commutes and strip mall after strip mall after strip mall? A conservation group outlined ways it says will get suburban sprawl under control. But not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.
Fuel for Metric System Debate 
For want of a meter, the probe was lost. Now some are arguing that the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter — due to a mix-up between the metric system and English units by a contractor — may be another reason for the U.S. to finally go metric.
Average Riches, Likely Poverty 
An investment strategy that produces amazing financial gains on average can still result in most of the investors losing most of their money. How could that be? Mathematician John Allen Paulos explains the numbers.
Neanderthal the Cannibal 
Butchered bone fragments of six Neanderthals have been unearthed in a cave overlooking France’s Rhone River, evidence that 100,000 years ago Neanderthals sometimes ate their own kind.
Special Spider Eyes 
Researchers have discovered that one of the four pairs of eyes of the ground spider is used not for vision but as an optical compass, enabling the tiny critter to navigate its way home. Plus a test to see if you too have a little of this spider sense.
Maya Lessons for Today How the Maya of Central America lived thousands of years ago could provide clues for sustainable agriculture today. Columnist Lee Dye writes of the ancient city of El Pilar and an archaeologist trying to reconstruct what life was like there.
Daddy Handsomest For zebra finches, at least, the most handsome father matters. Females appear to give an added jolt of hormones to eggs sired by males wearing the more attractive red leg bands. The others get nothing extra.
Frequent Natural Disasters Why does it seem that 100-year floods seem to happen much more often than once than every 100 years? A Cornell geophysicist says the mathematics of chaos theory may offer an explanation.
‘Mr. Earthquake’ a Turkish Hero Ahmet Mete Isikara was one of the few authorities people in Turkey trusted in the weeks following August’s deadly earthquake. Some newspapers have even dubbed the 58-year-old seismologist the “sexiest man alive.”
Other News 'Evolution' Removed from Ky. Curriculum Monsanto's Seeds to be Fertile Diceratops Skull Finds Smithsonian Home Venus, Star, Moon to Form Triangle Greens, Unions Unveil New Pact |
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 S C I E N C E U P D A T EArcheologists uncover the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba. 
M A D O R R A D Which kind of man do women like? Both.
M I C H A E L G U I L L E N 
Health aids of the future
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