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Water——The Fountain of Life

Boynton Opens Do-it-yourself Cold CiiNc

Mysteries of Africa

Strange Dreams T11Qt Predict Illness

Kidneys Stolen

Things Are Not Always What They Seem

Sleeping Beauty

Is the Almighty Unkind7．

What Has Science Done for Me Lately?

A bay in the Life of a Nobel Prize Winner

A Bit of Medical History

Hippocrates

Rabies

Piaget Describes Stages of Cognitive Development 1923—1952

Dinner with Typhoid Mary

The Founders of Human Anatomy

Alexander Fleming

Salk Produces Polio Vaccine 1952

Amino Acids Are Created in Laboratory 1953

Watson and Crick Describe Structure of DNA 1953

First Successful Kidney Transplant Performed 1954

Air Conditioning

Holy Cow

Waist Management

A Joyful Noise

Against All the Odds

Stroke of Luck

A Mother's Voice

Gene Genie

Seeing HIV as a Transforming Force in the World

Key to Exercises