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Spiders on the John Hancock
Wednesday, July 30, 2003

I had lunch with my mom yesterday at the Signature Room in the John Hancock building. The view was spectacular, but I saw something else up there that caught me by surprise: spiders.

As we ate our lunch 95 stories high, I couldn't help but stare at several of the somewhat beefy spiders clinging to their webs outside the window. What is their story? How did they get up here? Did they ride some sort of updraft? Is that what brings insects into their webs? Or are they simply heirs of older spiders who generation by generation, slowly worked their way up the building? I wonder...

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