February 13, 2011
The temperature slowly sneaks upward. You see it broadcast on the local newscast, detailed on your computer, rumored by your text-messaging friends. Yes, and more convincingly: you feel it, outside. The air changes. More moisture. The snow melts. Fewer hats. (And if you’re reading this from the safe-haven haunts of a 64-degree San Diego—scattered clouds, [...]
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January 10, 2011
We’ve got all sorts of layering in the world. There’s the layer cake, as in chocolate (lots of layers, please). There’s “Layer Cake,” the movie that may well have landed Daniel Craig his gig as the new James Bond. And then we have layers of stratification in geology and sociology. But enough of those other [...]
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