Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
As a physics major at Yale in the 1970s, I developed crushes on nearly all my male professors. — Eileen Pollack Copy Share Image
Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance speech that relaunched his candidacy and nearly saved… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. — Aaron Swartz Copy Share Image
Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can get too… — Cecily Brown Copy Share Image
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fortunate: He didn't take office until nearly four years after the Wall Street crash, by which time the… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Step one of Street View was to get the pictures in place - in a few short years, we've gotten used to… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an… — Farnaz Fassihi Copy Share Image
My favorite book is 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson. — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
In 2005, before I was president, the state of Bolivia had only $300 million from hydrocarbons. Last year, 2007, the Bolivian state… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The place of my birth, and residence for nearly sixteen years, in the early part of my life, became endeared to my… — John Britton Copy Share Image
In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
To this day, my mom's unsinkable spirit is an inspiration to me. For nearly thirty years, she's worked at the Library of… — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors,… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists… — Iyad Allawi Copy Share Image
Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love. — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Nearly 300,000 more people are forced to accept part-time employment because of this rotten non-recovery recovery than when Obama arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has… — Gary Krist Copy Share Image
