Claims Quote by Alan Huffman

My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in…

— Alan Huffman

“They were following me because I was ahead of them, which is no way to choose a leader. Following someone simply because they're out…

— Alan Huffman

The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of…

— Alan Huffman

The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable…

— Alan Huffman

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes…

— Alan Huffman

When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more…

— Alan Huffman

Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either…

— Alan Huffman

Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs…

— Alan Huffman

Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

— Alan Huffman

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates…

— Alan Huffman

“Campaign ads are often nothing more than political taffy. The ingredients- the facts gathered by researchers such as Alan and me- are mixed together…

— Alan Huffman

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and…

— Alan Huffman