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GEOGRAPHIC
JANUARY 2010 VOL . 217 . NO . 1
A Better Life With Bionics
34 The blind can see, a one-armed woman can fold her shirts.
By Josh Fischman
Sublime Scottish Islands
54 Some call the Hebrides bleak. They're not paying attention.

By Lynne Warren
Asia's Wildlife Trade
Photographs by Ira Block
120 Clownfish captivate moviegoers, scientists-and anemones.

By James Prosek
The Singapore Solution
Photographs by Mark Leong
108 In modern-day China, the dead still make demands.

By Peter Hessler
Befr iending Nemo
Photographs by Jim Richardson
78 Demand for pets and medicines drives illegal trafficking.

By aryan Christy
Restless Spirits
Photographs by Mark Thiessen
Photographs by David Doubiler
132 The "minister mentor" wields a big carrot and a big stick.
By Mark Jacobson
Photographs by David McLain
Clownfish can't flourish without a host anemone, whose stinging

tentacles keep predators away. Story on page 120.
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DEPARTMENTS
Editor's Note 4
Letters 8
Your Shot 12
Visions of Earth 14 .... _.............. .
CONSERVATION
Backing Big Cats

The NGS Big Cats Initiative aims to keep top
felines from sliding toward extinction.
SPAce
Wanted: Moon Rocks .......................................

NASA has a cache. Samples are sold on
eBay. Then there's the black market.
HEALTH
The Cost of Care

Which coun t ry leads the world in health
care spending per person?
TECHNOLOGY
........................................... Mummies Bare All

Lady Hor was really a sir. That's one of many
surprises from high-tech scans.
ENVIRONMENT
Quashing Kudzu
The vine covers eight million U.S. acres-and
counting. A killer fungus aims to take it down.
THE BIG IDEA
------------------------ Hitting Viruses Where They Live 30

A radical new strategy could outwit
the wily, ever mutating parasites.
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A Better Life With Bionics

Sublime Scottish Islands

54 Some call the Hebrides bleak. They're not paying attention.

Asia's Wildlife Trade

Photographs by Ira Block

120 Clownfish captivate moviegoers, scientists-and anemones.

The Singapore Solution

Photographs by Mark Leong

108 In modern-day China, the dead still make demands.

Befr iending Nemo

Photographs by Jim Richardson

78 Demand for pets and medicines drives illegal trafficking.

Photographs by Mark Thiessen

Photographs by David Doubiler

Photographs by David McLain

Clownfish can't flourish without a host anemone, whose stinging

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY

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pAV.O ODU B'lET

Backing Big Cats

Wanted: Moon Rocks .......................................

The Cost of Care

........................................... Mummies Bare All

THE BIG IDEA

------------------------ Hitting Viruses Where They Live 30

Inside Geographic 150

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