Good morning, citizens. Today: scientists abroad have built workers too small to see, thousands to a drop of water, who swim wherever the light is pointed and gather up whatever should not be there. A famous eating-house abroad has closed for improvement, its thousand faces taken down off the walls and kept, and the people there will wait until autumn for a room. Piri Orle, age nine, has earned her Dress-Up Badge, and her own mother walked past her. And then our Heartwarming Story of the Week: a woman of sixty-one telephoned the Listening Line one evening with nothing at all to report, and now her whole lane telephones every evening at seven. Everything is already wonderful.

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