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Articles in Nov-Dec 2003 issue of Skeptical Inquirer

• Astrologer misses John Ritter's death - News and Comment - Brief Article
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Less about appearances: art and science: visual art throughout history has given form and shape to fictional spaces—habitats to the gods, myths, and legends. But art has changed, slowly moving from fictional space into physical space—leading som
  by Stephen Nowlin
• The Cambridge Companion to Darwin - Brief Article - Book Review
• Gresham and 'Geek' - Brief Article - Letter to the Editor
• Daniel Dennett elected a CSICOP fellow - News and Comment - Brief Article
• King of the paranormal: CNN's Larry King Live has a long history of outrageous promotion of UFOs, psychics, and spiritualists
  by Chris Mooney
• From Complexity to Life: On the Emergence of Life and Meaning - Brief Article - Book Review
• Butterflies and 'MacGuffins' - Letter to the Editor
  by Gary Giblin
• Autistic boy killed during exorcism - News and Comment
  by Kevin Christopher
• Sylvia Browne tv psychic sidesteps challenges: popularized by Larry King and Montel Williams, self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne has reneged on promises to be tested for her extraordinary claims of communicating with the dead and "seeing" health proble
  by Bryan Farha
• Einstein: The Passions of a Scientist - Brief Article - Book Review
• Professor clarifies policy - letters of recommendation - Letter to the Editor
  by Michael Dini
• Recent deaths - News and Comment - Brief Article - Obituary
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Neither intelligent nor designed: evolution succeeds where "Intelligent Design" fails in describing the natural world
  by Bruce Martin
• The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France - Brief Article - Book Review
• True positives - Brief Article - Letter to the Editor
  by Irwin Tessman
• Ann Druyan evokes the passion of science - Editor's Note - Editorial
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Botanical Society of America's statement on evolution - Special Report
  by J.E. Armstrong
• The fellowship of the rings: UFO rings versus fairy rings: fungal diseases, mushrooms, fairy rings , bioluminescent fungi, and slime molds are presented as possible explanations for some UFO rings or "landing rings." - a fungus ring
  by Angel M. Nieves-Rivera
• Top ten best sellers - science books - Brief Article
• Ossuary assertion - James Ossuary - Brief Article - Letter to the Editor
  by Karl Sutterfield
• 'Bogus' poll of scientists latest twist in ID/creationists' fight against science standards; scientists battle back - News and Comment
  by Kendrick Frazier
• The curse of Bodie: legacy of ghost-town ghosts? - Bodie, California - Investigative Files
  by Joe Nickell
• A dictionary of skeptical splendor - The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions - Book Review
  by Amanda Chesworth
• Hen-dubious, cock-sure - Mark Ridley, Mendel's Demon, life in the universe
  by Ralph Estling
• Compliment - Brief Article - Letter to the Editor
  by Mary Manion
• Evolution battle in Texas textbooks - News and Comment - Brief Article
  by Kevin Christopher
• A quiet summer in Roswell - Roswell, New Mexico, and other UFO items - Psychic Vibrations
  by Robert Sheaffer
• Religion in a scientific world - The Ghost in the Universe: God in the Light of Modern Science - Book Review
  by Phil Mole
• The Rorschach Test - Letter to the Editor
  by George A. Ulett
• Network of affiliated organizations - An International Organization
• Extensive Loch Ness search by BBC team yields no monster - News and Comment
  by Benjamin Radford
• The sin of scientism - Thinking About Science
  by Massimo Pigliucci
• Rewriting history with a grand theory - 1421: The Year China Discovered America - Book Review
  by Dan Koch
• Chasing Champ - Lake Champlain monster - Letter to the Editor
  by Tom Napier
• Polygraph testing to be scaled back at national labs - News and Comment
  by Kendrick Frazier
• Houdini's final days - Notes on a Strange World - Biography
  by Massimo Polidoro
• A new look at bigfoot - Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in North America - Book Review
  by Benjamin Radford
• Can minds leave bodies? - Letter to the Editor
• Scott Peterson defense suggests Satanists - News and Comment
  by Benjamin Radford
• Ann Druyan talks about science, religion, wonder, awe … and Carl Sagan: it is great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, t
• Calculus and Pizza: A Cookbook for the Hungry Mind - Brief Article - Book Review
• Thought experiments - Letter to the Editor
  by Jon May