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It is not so much a unit of time as a unit of consummation, and it highlights, in a way, our larger confusion about what chronological time is and what measuring it is good for.
(The report was first discussed last week in the Washington Post , which today runs a story on it inside, as does the New York Times .) The top non-local story at the WP is the consummation of the long-awaited deal by which the federal government and the state of California have agreed to pay a lumber company $480 million to preserve Northern California's Headwaters Forest, which had been the largest stand of ancient redwoods in private hands.
And of course, there is, once the liaison is on the verge of consummation, the age-old question of whose name to take.
The paper pushes down to the 18th paragraph news that State's concerns included questions about the behavior of Hughes Electronics, the satellite vendor, in the consummation of prior Chinese satellite deals, in which questionable briefings to Chinese scientists and a questionable hiring of a son of a Chinese general took place.
On intercourse: “'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished.”