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Debate on Daniel Luria and Joel Rogers’ “A New Urban Agenda,” with responses by Phillip Thompson, Myron Orfield, Richard Feldman, and Margaret Weir. Also: “Is Darwin in the Details?” Plus Peter Godfrey-Smith asks “Can We Control Disease?”, and Alan Stone reviews The English Patient, “Herodotus Goes to Hollywood.” Plus fiction, poetry, book reviews and much more.
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