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" 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. "
Nancy Gibbs
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" When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak. "
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" In modern warfare, journalists are among the first responders, seeking out truth in the turmoil and wreckage, wherever it takes them. "
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" Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting. "
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" Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. "
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" I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold. "
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" Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards. "
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" Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults. "
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" Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle. "
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Light
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" It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior. "
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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? "
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Live
Need
" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "
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Teacher
" It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely. "
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Day
Funny
" There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant. "
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Women
Time
" Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets. "
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" Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament. "
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" 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. "
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Parents
Training
" 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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Mom
Daughter
" 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. "
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Know
Never
" 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. "
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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. "
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Hate
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" While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests. "
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Expensive
" It's no secret that the media has fragmented in recent years, that audiences have been cut into slivers, and that more and more people get their news from ever narrower outlets. "
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" Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical - as has Pope Francis. "
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World
" 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. "
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" I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making. "
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" The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place. "
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Politics
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" America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it. "
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America