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On a late-August Saturday in Downtown Santa Monica, the city's premier indoor public amenity performed its most honest civic function yet: it stopped pretending the air was conditioned. The Main Library at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard has spent years on the municipal highlight reel as a "cooling center." Official posts show books, sunlight, and the gentle implication that if you are overheating, civilization still has a plan. The plan, it turns out, has a compressor. By...