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By Stanislas Dehaene. Oxford Univ. Press. 274 pp. $25

By Jonathan Cole. MIT Press. 223 pp. $25

Defying all predictions, rural America is coming back. What's behind the sudden influx of people and businesses, and will it ruin what's cherished most?

How one Kansas town is coping with change.

Pondering the new disturbed landscape and its meanings.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov is a potential successor to Boris Yeltsin. But will his urban corporatism solve his country's economic woes?

The Spanish-American War of 1898 propelled the United States into an experiment with empire that still colors America's relations with the world.  

Nature has previously limited our ability to reach a biologically grounded understanding of ourselves and the world. But the new sciences of the mind are tearing down some of the most confounding obstacles.

The need for unified knowledge is unproved.

Biologist Paul Gross defends Edward O. Wilson's project.

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