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IN THIS ISSUE

Humanist NEW

Volume 122 No 3 May/June 2007

EDITOR Caspar Melville COMMISSIONING EDITOR Laurie Taylor ASSOCIATE EDITOR Sally Feldman EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Paul Sims

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Website www.newhumanist.org.uk ISSN 0306-512X Published by the Rationalist Association. RA ASSOCIATES PRESIDENT: JONATHAN MILLER Vice Presidents: Baroness Susan Greenfield,Paul Kurtz,Laurie Taylor Honorary Associates : David Aaronovitch, Peter Atkins,Lord Birt,Harold Blackham, Colin Blakemore,Alan Brownjohn,Colin Campbell,Philip Campbell,Noam Chomsky, Bernard Crick,Helena Cronin,Richard Dawkins,Sanal Edamaruku,Paul Edwards, Ekow Eshun,Winston Fletcher,Antony Flew, Michael Foot,AC Grayling,Stuart Hall,Tony Harrison,Simon Heffer,James Hemming, Christopher Hitchens,Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Hoggart,Ted Honderich,Linton Kwesi Johnson,Sir Ludovic Kennedy,Richard Leakey, Sir Michael Levey,Sir John Maddox,Haydn Mason,George Melly,Edwin Mullins, Conor Cruise O’Brien,John Postgate,Claire Rayner, Amartya Sen,David Starkey,Ralph Steadman, DJ Stewart,Ian Stewart,Hazhir Teimourian, Claire Tomalin,David Tribe,Baroness Turner of Camden,Arnold Wesker,Francis Wheen, Lewis Wolpert

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CONTENTS VOLUME 122 NO 3 MAY/JUNE 2007

21COSY CONCRETE The organic Modernism of Alvar Aalto is nice. Maybe too nice, argues Owen Hatherley

BOOK REVIEWS 34MICHAEL BINYON visits the Pyramids with Napoleon

NINA POWER relishes a Dracula for the TV generation

AC GRAYLING cheers as the scientists vanquish Intelligent Design

PHILIP WOMACKis impressed by Chris Paling’s mind

LEWIS WOLPERT learns the facts of life from plants

JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE stays up for a rendezvous with Haruki Murakami

COLUMNS

6 DIARY Martin Rowson’s labour pains

11 BE TOLERANT OR ELSE Eliane Glaser challenges a core British virtue

17 WAKING DREAM Isabelle McNeill on Surrealist film

17 FAREWELL,MR VONNEGUT Caspar Melville salutes a passed master

REGULARS 3 EDITORIAL He did God

7 PARISH NEWS

40 YOURS SCEPTICALLY Readers’ letters

41 CONCRETE REASONING Quiz

42 ENDGAME Laurie Taylor’s stuck