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Politics · Water
…garden. Just before 11, the foreman knocked on the door and asked whether she knew she had lead. She showed him the letter. He showed her the pipe: dull gray, thick as a thumb, beaded with condensation in the…
Technology · Infrastructure
…worked so that I could help kill it,” she said. “It seemed a waste not to use that.” She now leads what the team calls slicing: replacing Cass one small, well-understood piece at a time, rather than all at once…
Politics · Public works
…three districts has fallen by nearly two-thirds. That is the number the covenant’s supporters lead with, and it is true. But the more interesting story is what the rule did to the people who govern roads. The…
Culture · Museums
…its place she put things that could only have come from the ropewalk. Volunteers make dog leads on the building’s 1870s laying machine, from the same three-strand hemp it has always made, and sell them for…
Science · Climate
…64, who began the measurements in 2003 and was walking the line for the last time as their leader; and me, carrying the spare propane. By eleven we had read nine stakes. At S3, near the snout, which Holm had…
Ideas · Reading
…the other side. Sites move, close, and reorganize; a citation that once led to a document leads, a decade later, to an error page or an advertisement for shoes. Meanwhile the page itself was narrowing. As…
Culture · Archives
…outputs, the journals and photographs and polished brass, and outputs read on their own mislead. The journals make keeping look like meteorology. The photographs make it look like solitude. The hope is that…
Technology · Right to repair
…Wednesday morning, Ostrander called Ray Cotter instead. Cotter, 64, spent 22 years as the lead technician at the Norhaven dealership and now runs an independent workshop out of what used to be its wash bay,…
Technology · Hospitals
…places where a mobile phone gives up: the dog-leg in the tunnel under the old chapel, the lead-lined rooms of radiology, the mortuary, the boiler house, two elevators in the tower, and the whole of the pathology…