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Kent Linthicum
Kent Linthicum is a postdoctoral fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Susan Walsh / AP
Why Coal Symbolizes Naughtiness
And how it should be used instead. An
Object Lesson
.
Kent Linthicum
December 24, 2018
