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JOHN BROWN, RATIONAL HERO
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JOHN BROWN, RATIONAL HERO
Alan Lightman makes scientists into artists in his new book The
Discoveries, promoting original journal articles as "the great
novels and symphonies of science."
Albert Einstein's banner year.
Pursuing religious voters, Republicans and Democrats overlook the importance of the constituency of nonbelievers.
"The New Atheists," Ronald Aronson's cover story for the
June 25 issue, drew so much mail, of such variety, we have onl
On Dorothea Lange, Michael Harrington, Earth Day and solitary confinement
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