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" Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others? "

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

" On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. "

" Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating. "

Nancy Gibbs

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" Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships. "

" 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. "

" 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept. "

" 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. "

" In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. "

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

" It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. "

" The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs. "

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

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

" Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us. "

Nancy Gibbs

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" It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. "

" The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Today's kids aren't taking up arms against their parents; they're too busy texting them. "

" Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on. "

" 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. "

" Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind. "