The New Yorker, 2007-01-22

James Surowiecki:  Langone is what an epidemiologist might call a supercarrier of the executive-pay virus.

"Mr. Green" / Elizabeth Kolbert
__ This one from Wallace Stevens: "after the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future world depends."

"Made in the Shade" / Eric Knoigsberg
__ Color business work for manufacturers of nearly every sort .. even flowers. It's only the fashion world that operates independent of the color consultants.

"Digging For Dodos" / Ian Parker

• In island geobiology, mammals tend to grow smaller over evolutionary time (like Borneo's pygmy elephants), while birds expand.
• Mauritius accepts its role as the world's capital of extinction with little apparent discomfort.
• Lagerstätte

"Vegetable Love" / Steven Shapin
__ Ben Franklin: "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable Creature, since it enables one to find or make a Reason for everything one has a mind to do."

Anthony Lane: If (Miss Potter) is loved for her bunny books, that is because, as a girl, she used to boil her dead pet rabbits and measure the bones, the better to grasp their anatomy.

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