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Who knows what might happen in a New York heat wave? The city is still and quiet, but the millions of people are all here, spirits and energy pent. Sights, smells and sounds are acute. It isn't surprising that E.B. White wrote 'Here Is New York,' a prescient vignette, in the middle of a 1948 hot spell. The city's essence is stronger in compression.
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