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Thinking of replacing my old refrigerator (15yo +), I ventured to a certain depot known to most Americans. Innocently, I expected no problem in finding one with the same footprint (depth and width) as mine. Surprise! Surprise! The manufacturers now make them deeper and narrower, rather than wider and shallower. Why? No salesman seemed to know.

On the telephone, I called several major appliance retailers to determine if what I learned was generally true. I found it is. In order to get a refrigerator of the same width as my old one, I should have to buy a much larger, taller and deeper one - far more volume than I would need, much more expensive. More demanding on energy, too!

Manufacturers seem to think that when we go to the refrigerator, what we want to do is seach longer in its depths, reach into the belly of the beast and hold the door open so that more fresh air can get into it.

How inexplicable! Or does someone have an explanation?

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Remembering Bertrand Russell