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" High school is a haunted house in April, when seniors act up because the end is near. Even those who hate school sometimes cling to the devil they know. And for the kids who love it, the goodbyes are hard to think about. "

Nancy Gibbs

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" I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm? "

" When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped. "

" Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to 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. "

" We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power. "

" You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children. "

" Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips. "

" 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. "

" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "

" 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. "

" New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola. "

" The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5. "

" Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul. "

" Girls grow up scarred by caution and enter adulthood eager to shake free of their parents' worst nightmares. They still know to be wary of strangers. What they don't know is whether they have more to fear from their friends. "

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

" All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends. "

" Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear. "

" At times, it seems as if the only women effortlessly balancing their jobs, kids, husbands and homes are the ones on TV. "

" 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. "

" In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own. "

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

" The real luxury travel of the modern age is not through space; it's through time. "

" Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. "

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

" I would like to see every newspaper and every magazine have a network of bureaus all over the world, gathering news. "

" The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the '60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state - so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once. "

" 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. "