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October 2008 Issue John Cornwell And God Created… Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design’s Challenge to Darwinism By Steve Fuller LR
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June 2012 Issue David Bodanis Conductors of Progress The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation By Jon Gertner LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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