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Snug in bubble wrap, packing peanuts and tissue paper, the utensils and gadgets that fill Julia Child’s drawers and cabinets will travel to the museum. As soon as they hit the loading dock in Washington, the boxes will go straight to an exhibit room where museum workers will unpack them in full public view. For about six months, visitors will be able to watch as each object is given its official number and is registered in the museum’s database of artifacts...
Take religion. Religion exploits a simple bootstrapping problem unique to humans: we are unable to understand the nature of our death or non-existence, because our understanding of this state presupposes that we exist to comprehend it. There is no way to wrap our heads around the concept of our demise, and thus most religions, in their many guises, offers us a way out of this logical impasse by offering a solution: we never die. Or, more accurately, those who share the meme will not die. Aye, and here is where the replication comes in. Those harboring the little virus...
...then responded with two first-period scores of its own. With just over five minutes to play in the opening frame, forward Dominic Moore sent a shot across Dartmouth goaltender Nick Boucher’s crease. Linemate Tim Pettit collected the rebound next to the goal and tried to wrap it around the left post...
...survey of athletic and recreational facilities controlled by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will wrap up in about a month, according to the firm doing the analysis—a survey that will probably pave the way for large-scale renovation of the Malkin Athletic Center...
...found himself morally at last" under the influence of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Kennedy's callow self-assurance first foundered after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Leaming writes, Jackie stepped in, using her social skills and talent for imagemaking to wrap his presidency in an aura of maturity and dignity that it did not yet possess...