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Who cleans skyscrapers?

Plus: the inflation rate for the job, and a long-term view of prison violence

Workers carry out cleaning and maintenance work on the clock face of Big Ben in 2007 (Photo: CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

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