The New Yorker, 2012-04-30

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"The Secret of the Temple" / Jake Halpern

• Deities can actually own property in India, though the law treats them as minors and they must be represented by an official guardian.
• He pressed the remote control again, and the clerk reappeared. . The clerk squeezed between the back of Padmanabhan's chair and a bookcase, removed a large volume, handed it over, and vanished.
• (Recall Geraldo Rivera breaking into Al Capone's vault, in the 1980s.)
• The observers instructed temple employees to haul everything from Vault A upstairs, for inspection. It took fifteen men all day.
• I asked him what he thought Marx and Lenin would have done (with the temple treasure). The activist, shifting in his chair, replied, "When they are reincarnated, we must ask them."

"Raw Deal" / Dana Goodyear

__ The F.D.A. asserted, "There is no absolute right to consume or feed children any particular food."

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