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" Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. "

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" It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. "

" If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized. "

" The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it. "

" A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient. "

" In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. "

" Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking. "

" I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about. "

" Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day. "

" Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have. "

" As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to. "

" Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. "

" Maybe we adults idealize our own red-rover days, the hot afternoons spent playing games that required no coaches, eating foods that involved no nutrition, getting dirty in whole new ways and rarely glancing in the direction of a screen of any kind. "

" War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S. "

" In 2001, President George W. Bush was condemned for politicizing science with his decision to limit federal funding for stem-cell research; in 2009 President Obama was praised for reversing it, even though his decision was arguably just as political. "

" We will never know if any other president approached Nixon in paranoia, profanity or potential criminality, since only his conversations were captured, subpoenaed and ultimately released on the front pages of newspapers. "

" What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start. "

" There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going. "

" We want laws to be applied predictably. "

" Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program. "

" In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school. "

" I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen. "

" Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson. "

" The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well. "

" What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. "

" Hillary Clinton wants to leave behind No Child Left Behind. "

" People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents. "

" Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes. "

Making Mistakes

" I like the fact that glass ceilings are breaking all over. "

" Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well. "

" It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace. "