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Three stories worth your Sunday coffee
This week: a chair eleven years in the making, why rent keeps outrunning pay, and an observatory that has watched the same stars since 1934.
Design
The chair that took eleven years to get right
Money
Why rent rose faster than pay, in five charts
Science
What a 1930s observatory sees that satellites miss
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