But tests carried out by laboratories in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany, for the WHO, now suggest the infection can also spread simply by touching a contaminated doorknob or lift button.

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You can take home a Maison Martin Margiela egg doorknob for 59 euro, or a Fornasetti Le Figaro ashtray in the shape of the crumpled newspaper for 120 euro.

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So she sent Doorknob into the Haight to fetch a human musician, but he brought her back an album instead, because it had a beautiful woman on it, a lovely human mama.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

As she did, a movement to her right won her attention: The doorknob turned.

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Maybe four, if we want to be generous and include Andy Murray, who has yet to win a Grand Slam, and keeps grabbing for that glory, only to pull the doorknob off in his hand.

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