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The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the *less* valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the *Economist* shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.
If it’s someone else’s map, it’s not your fault if it doesn’t work out.
In 1886, after months of planning and preparation, all of the broad gauge southern track was changed to standard gauge in just thirty-six hours: tens of thousands of workers pulled up one rail of the track, moved it a few inches closer to the other, and spiked it into its new position. Railcars got new undercarriages, and the two separate smaller networks became a single, fully interconnected, national network.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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