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The Science Podcast for 26 January 2007 includes interviews on brain damage that disrupts smoking addiction, the ins and outs of the plague bacterium, and a three-way symbiosis that confers heat tolerance in plants, as well as a roundup of stories from Science and its free daily news site ScienceNOW.