Alan Huffman Quotes

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• Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos…
• Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick…
• Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died…
• Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
• When President Teddy Roosevelt posed for the cameras astride a massive steam shovel during construction of the Panama Canal in 1906, it was more than…
• Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was…
• Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were…
• In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features,…
• Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.
• Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high,…
• Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
• Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade…
• The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes…
• Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations…
• Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled…
• 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 Jackson,…
• 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 freight…
• 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 on…
• Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.

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