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October 16, 1978

The duck

Mark B. Willard
My dad and I were walking on a lake pier when our attention was drawn to a large duck.
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October 16, 1978

Keeping the perfect model

JUDITH ANN HARDY
In selecting marbled tile for a white floor, a friend of mine noticed a great degree of variegation among the individual tiles: some were almost white, others were virtually gray.
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October 9, 1978

Perfect you—perfect everybody

BARBARA J. PRESLER
A friend of mine who sells Oriental rugs and invited me over to see her collection of prayer rugs said, "Don't expect them to be perfect! Not only do you have to allow for mistakes a machine would rarely make, but the expert rug makers will put small, deliberate errors in because they believe it would be wrong for man to be perfect—only Allah is perfect.
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