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Published on Friday, February 24, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune Meanwhile: The Long View from Antarctica by Tishani Doshi MADRAS, India - In 1903, when the Eiffel Tower was still the tallest building in the world, Mark Twain used its soaring height to give us one of the most brilliant analogies for humankind's place on the planet. "If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age," he wrote in his essay, Was the World Made for Man?, then "the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age." Since then, we've come up with taller stuff - the Chrysler Building, the Pe
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