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Urban renewal did damage; highways did more.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
And you look upon this moonlit body with surprise as it breathes in through its nose so deeply its belly distends, pregnant with wind.
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Simon Jimenez
Nominal figures are not adjusted for inflation. A comparison of the nominal cost of a government program in 1970 to the nominal cost of the same program in 2011 merely compares the size of the checks that the Treasury wrote in those two years—without any recognition that a dollar in 1970 bought more stuff than a dollar in 2011.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
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