The New Yorker, 2005-10-24

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"Nosebleed Dept: Rare Air" / Nick Paumgarten   
    Admiral Peary's sledge, Thor Heyerdahl's globe

"Good Works: Bed Bath & Bowery" /  Lauren Collins
    The priest blessed the construction site by sprinkling its four corners with little squares of salted paper.

"Fresh Faces" / Alex Ross
    As James Joyce's wife once said of her husband, he should stick to the singing.

"The First Conservative" / Tom Reiss

• South Hadley, Massachusetts
• (Friedrich Engels attended the wedding)
• In conservatism's rise to power he foresaw its corruption by extremists, and his break with the movement may ultimately be more significant than his role in its creation.
• "So  we chatted for about five minutes, as we walked in a leisurely direction, and then he fell. So I dragged him out of this sort of ditch. It didn't interrupt his talking for one second!"
• ''Robespierre, rightly called "the incorruptible," was more sincere than Danton and always found somebody deviating just a little bit from true liberty.' [Peter Viereck]
  

"Turned On" / H. Allen Orr
    In the end, the logic of animal development involves a long cascade: tool-kit genes effectively switch other genes on or off, some of which then switch yet other genes on or off, and so it continues throughout the assembly of an adult.

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