... forth a single theme, crisply expressed in a sentence or two, and then tell the entire story of that theme: the history of salt; the fragility of democracy; the use and misuse of punctuation. ... beat at their own game. And in the face of the Internet, their informa-tional advantage is shrinking every day—as evidenced by, among other things, the falling price of coffins and life- insurance ... some about life- and-death issues. The answers may often seem odd but, after the fact, also rather obvious. We will seek out these answers in the data—whether those data come in the form of schoolchildren’s...