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...pipes are lined with meters which measure temperature and pressure, and valves to alter the pressure or shut down the pipes...
...critics fret that all this criss-crossing will damage society's essential "American" core. By this they usually mean a confluence of attitudes, values and assumptions that drive Americans' centuries-old quest for a better life. What they fail to acknowledge is that legal, educational and economic changes continuously alter the priorities within that same set of social variables. A few generations back, religion, race and custom superseded all other considerations. When Kathleen Hobson and Atul Gawande, both 27, married last year, however, they based their vision of a shared future on a different set of common values: an upper...
...must now select a new No. 2 who can run the department while he's away. The Secretary will be traveling a great deal in the coming months, says a senior aide, "so he needs someone here who can manage the other big issues, who can really serve as alter ego." One candidate is Thomas Pickering, now the ambassador to Russia, who has an excellent reputation for getting things done, albeit by leaving a lot of smashed crockery in his wake...
During Harvard's last-minute drives, Dowlingasked Coach Carm Cozza to put him in on defense,where he had starred in high school. Cozza refusedto alter his unit...
Last summer I showed him pictures of a trip to London, a city he had once visited on military duty when he was my age. He nodded at just about everything I showed him, remembering old back cabs, the alter of St. Paul's, the Tower Bridge. He stopped, though, over a picture of a ceiling--the arches of the Chapter House in Westminster Abbey. He tapped it and said quietly, "They knew how to do it then, didn't they...