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	Issue 15 Fall 2008	Letter From the Editor

18 From Dust to Dawn How solar systems arise by Danae Schulz	23 The Sound of New Music Expanding technology's horizons at CNMAT by Meredith Carpenter	28 Come Together Students power the Berkeley Energy Resources Collaborative by Sharmistha Majumdar
33 Neglected No More Tropical disease research at UC Berkeley by Niranjana Nagarajan	38 A Natural High Harnessing the brain's own drugs by Paul Hauser

8 A Musical Tail Hummingbirds seduce at high speeds 9 Of Ice and Men Cold weather shapes male survival 10 A Night at the Movies A surprising effect of violent cinema 11 Swimming Upstream Wine country salmon struggle for survival 13 Blinded by the Light A distant star signals its demise 14 Tough Nut to Crack How campus squirrels find their loot 15 A Reason for Everything Instinctively making sense of the world 16 Rock of Ages Synchronizing geological clocks

43 Faculty Portrait: Richard Karp Professor of Computer Science by Dan Gillick	45 Letter from the Field: Spain A Berkeley Student in Basque Country There's a Fruit in my Bug Caught in Translation Beams Away Investing in Children

46 Book Review T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, by Walter Alvarez 47 Who Knew? Beyond Bernoulli: The Science of Flight