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Look at the number pad on a telephone. The top row is 1, 2, 3 and the bottom row is 7, 8, 9.
Now look at the number…
It is the most reliably divisive question in domestic life, it has broken up less serious relationships than it should have, and it has an answer that is older than…
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The paper drinking straw is not a modern environmental compromise. It is the original manufactured straw, patented in 1888, and the thing it replaced was an actual straw…
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The hospital gown is probably the most disliked garment in widespread use. It is open at the back, it ties with cords most people cannot reach, it exposes…
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There is a particular kind of American administrative object that works by accident, and this is the purest example of it.
The Social Security number was created in…
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Walk through two American towns and the hydrants will not match. One place has red ones, another yellow, another silver, and in a great many places the body…