Archive Utility app in Mavericks is gone

After my last update my abiity to unzip files quit working. I can still zip files.
I looked for the Archive Utility app in System › Library › CoreServices. It is definitely not there. My CoreServices folder list goes from Applications (folder) to Automator Launcher.
How do I get the Archive Utility app back?

dsharpe,
I had a look in my /System/Library/CoreServices folder, and between Applications and Automator Launcher.app I have Archive Utility.app and AuthBrokerAgent (which seems to be part of  CoreFoundation networking).
You could boot into Recovery mode and select Reïnstall Mac OS X from the Mac OS X Utilities menu — that should restore Archive Utility and whatever else might be missing from your Mavericks installation.

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