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" There's perhaps no better way to understand what's happening in a marriage than being inside the home. "
Elizabeth Flock
Way
Better
Understand
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" Not every dollar spent to gain influence on Capitol Hill comes from a big global industrial behemoth. Hundreds of small advocacy groups and nonprofits spend thousands each year to lobby Congress and federal agencies on the issues they care about most, and their efforts often go under the radar. "
Elizabeth Flock
Influence
Care
Congress
" Every Valentine's Day, I pretend I don't care. Like many of us, I say I don't want the flowers or chocolates or a homemade card. How cheesy. I pretend that it's over-the-top to want the person you like to make you a ridiculously nice dinner, or do some showy gesture, ala John Cusack with the boombox in 'Say Anything.' "
Elizabeth Flock
Care
You
Nice
" At first glance, The Color Run does look a lot like Holi. Its website is populated by photos of people throwing coloured powder at each other and in the air, outdoors, at the start of spring. The only difference, it seemed, was that there was a 5 km. run added in. And that it cost $54.99 to participate. "
Elizabeth Flock
Color
Run
Start
" When Neil Young caught two women incessantly texting at a concert in 2012, he began mock typing on an invisible phone on stage until the women noticed and apparently left the show. "
Elizabeth Flock
Women
Concert
Phone
" The costs of running a prison system as large as Arkansas' are significant, and the system's failures can make things worse. "
Elizabeth Flock
System
Worse
Things
" Founded by a Mormon couple in Utah in 2012, The Color Run has proved to be a brilliant idea. "
Elizabeth Flock
Run
Idea
Color
" Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago. "
Elizabeth Flock
Money
Promises
Chicago
" What compels the Hindu right's volcanic reaction to Valentine's Day? Some of its members have protested that the holiday is the product of a 'rotten imported culture' from the West. "
Elizabeth Flock
Day
Product
Holiday
" There was a time when poetry often made its way to vinyl; take a deep dive, for example, into the beat poets' countercultural albums of the 1950s to '80s. "
Elizabeth Flock
Time
Vinyl
Deep
" The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true? "
Elizabeth Flock
Better
Far
Political
" So often, as a reporter, we have to parachute into places. We don't have much time. We have to make sense of the story as fast as we can. "
Elizabeth Flock
Fast
Much
Places
" Americans don't know the Constitution. More than half of those surveyed can't name any of the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Only a quarter can name all three branches of government. "
Elizabeth Flock
Know
Name
Constitution
" Artists know they need to have digital presences to build and bolster their fan base, and fans have exploited that fact. "
Elizabeth Flock
Fact
Fans
Know
" The lack of space and a growing prison population has strained resources and put pressure on all levels of the penal system. "
Elizabeth Flock
Growing
Space
System
" Antoine 'Fats' Domino was a 1950s rock n' roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation. "
Elizabeth Flock
Community
Time
Role Model
" There is no denying that unhappiness - even violence - exists in some arranged marriages. Or that some arranged marriages are borne out of cruelty. And part of that six percent global divorce rate can be attributed to the powerful stigma against divorce that's present in countries where arranged marriage is common. "
Elizabeth Flock
Violence
Powerful
Marriage
" There is a perception that the media is very liberal, very biased, produces fake news. "
Elizabeth Flock
News
Liberal
Media
" Videos of Antifa violence, some of them doctored, are regularly shared on conservative, pro-Trump and conspiracy theory-pushing websites, often with commentary that suggests the media purposefully ignores those events. These videos often do not often include wider context or numbers. "
Elizabeth Flock
Media
Numbers
Conservative
" Despite allegations by liberal advocacy groups that voter suppression tactics by the right hindered minority voting, blacks represented 13 percent of the electorate in 2012, a percentage about equivalent with 2008. "
Elizabeth Flock
Liberal
Advocacy
Right
" The Food Stamp Challenge, which challenges higher-income families to live as if they are on food stamps, estimates that a person on food stamps has a budget of about $1.25 per meal. In other words, a family on food stamps must buy an entire meal per person for less than the cost of an average cup of coffee. "
Elizabeth Flock
Live
Coffee
Challenge
" Buckhannon, population 5,639, is a deeply conservative town and long has been. While coal is its past, oil and gas are its likely future. It's a town where guns are sold at yard sales, where Pentecostal churches are nearly as common as restaurants, and where distrust of Hillary Clinton is visceral and deep-seated. "
Elizabeth Flock
Conservative
Sales
Past
" In Mumbai, I found, people practiced a showy, demonstrative kind of love, one unafraid of affection or emotion. "
Elizabeth Flock
Love
Kind
Affection
" One of the most bitter complaints of craft brewers is that big beer wins consumers by introducing beers whose names resemble the names of actual independent beers. After New Belgium came out with a popular beer called Sunshine Wheat, MillerCoors, through its Leinenkugel brand, came out with a beer called Sunset Wheat. "
Elizabeth Flock
Sunshine
Beer
Brand
" May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.' "
Elizabeth Flock
God
People
Prayer
" India has a long history with devotional, even obsessive love, be it for a personal god or for your lover. "
Elizabeth Flock
Your
Long
India
" The term 'alt-left' sprang up long after the term 'alt-right,' which was coined in 2010 by white supremacist Richard Spencer, and defined by the Associated Press just after the 2016 election as a movement based on a mix of white nationalism and hard-edged populism. "
Elizabeth Flock
Up
Election
Long
" The battle between craft breweries and big beer stretches back to the 1990s, when the idea of buying a beer brewed by a small, independent brewery first took off. "
Elizabeth Flock
First
Battle
Craft
" Certainly, Occupy Wall Street protesters have different ideas about the movement's mission. Many of the marchers I met even disagreed on the purpose of their trek - some thought it was about getting to Washington to protest the 'supercommittee'; others thought it was about visiting other Occupations. "
Elizabeth Flock
Thought
Ideas
Street
" County jails used to be just stopovers for inmates headed to state prisons. But as Arkansas' state facilities have reached capacity, jails are increasingly being used to hold prisoners long term. "
Elizabeth Flock
Long
Used
Prisons
" Just a decade after 'Living in Bondage,' Nollywood films, made in some 300 languages, were being watched in both urban and rural areas, distributed on both the streets and online, and finding their way into international festivals. "
Elizabeth Flock
Festivals
Streets
Way