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The File Says I Am a 71 and I Have Never Told Anyone Anything
I obtained my own record from one of the large commercial voter files, which you can do, and it is four hundred and some fields long. Most of it is accurate and dull: address history, the elections…
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The School Was Built to Save the Language and It Has Forty Empty Desks
We had eleven children in class four this year. The room has fifty desks in it because it was built in 1974 for fifty children, by people who had carried the idea of a school out of Tibet along wit…
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The Gauge Has Been Broken Since 2018 and the Model Still Uses It
Station 04185000 sits on a concrete pier under a county road bridge in northwest Ohio, and it has been reporting stage height every fifteen minutes since 1974. In April 2018 a piece of agricultural…
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The New Plant Has Four People on the Floor
I went back to Ohio in April to look at a plant that opened in 2023 with a great deal of ceremony. It makes a part that used to be made in Monterrey. The governor came. There were remarks about bri…
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The Work That Pays Is the Work That Fits in the Register
The incentive schedule is a laminated sheet and I have carried a copy in my bag for eleven years. It lists what a female community health volunteer in Nepal is paid for, per event. A referral for a…
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The County Mows in July and That Is the Whole Story
County Road 12, west side, between the culvert and the section line: on 28 June I counted blooming stems in ten one-metre quadrats and got a mean of 41, dominated by common milkweed, bergamot and t…
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Every One of Those Beetles Was Collected at the County Courthouse
There are 214 occurrence records for a particular ground beetle in one midwestern county in the aggregated database most people use, and 189 of them share the same latitude and longitude to six dec…
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Why I Chose to Build My Wardrobe Around Tailored Black Blazers
Fashion became much more interesting to me when I stopped trying to follow every new trend and started paying attention to the specific pieces I actually wore. The item that eventually became the foundation of my wardrobe was a tailored
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The Map of Air Quality Is a Map of Where the Monitors Are
The continuous ambient monitoring station nearest to the block I was working in that year was one hundred and ten kilometres away, in a city, in a compound with a gate. The block has about two hund…
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Thirty-One Days for a Drug She Was Already Taking
The fax machine in our office is nineteen years old and it is load-bearing. I mean that literally: if it fails, a category of work stops, because a meaningful share of American insurers still requi…
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