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Tebowmania was the national obsession with the Denver Broncos’ quarterback. But it could also be described as an affliction besetting the media.
Samson’s buddy: “I’ve got six hours in town before my flight. What should I do?” Bachman: “Go to the airport.
We try to encourage people to drive carefully and safely and then the police will not stop them. But a lot of people have lost confidence and they’d rather just leave.
Hispanic businessman in South Carolina. A new immigration law resulted in a mass exodus of Latinos, leaving behind legal residents and their businesses fighting for survival.
What do you want to do? Go home? It’s dark and you want to go home? Go back up and tell me what can be done: how many people there are and what they need.
This is how France won the World Cup in 1998.
Everybody has weak spots in their character, fault lines in their personality where the right earthquake at the wrong time can lead to personal catastrophe. Most of us are fortunate that our worst experience doesn’t hit us with its biggest jolt in exactly the area where our flaws or poor judgment or vanity is most dangerously in play. It’s part good luck if we don’t disgrace ourselves.
We stress to our children don’t ever let anybody tell you that you are succeeding or doing well despite the fact that you came from Tangier Island, you are doing well because of the fact that you came from Tangier Island and you’ve got a whole community behind you pushing you to succeed.
Nina Pruitt, principal of Tangier Combined School. The story airs Oct 26, 2011 on http://bbc.com/news
The number of people who are interested in child abuse I can count on one hand. The business of congress is business, its not children – and why is that? Well they can’t vote of course, they don’t talk they don’t have demonstration on the street, they are invisible…
Randy Burton, President of Justice for Children.
The BBC’s full investigative report at http://bbc.in/childdeathshame
Save the salmon. Save it so our children can witness the grace and beauty of this noble fish. Or, just save it so we can saute it with our fabulous lemon chive butter sauce.
“Sign of the Day from @legalseafood via @darrenrovell
It’s hard work. In high school my uncle was always pushing us to lift weights and have the mindset that no one could beat us. And it just translated to a scholarship.
Travis Tuiloma, football player at Brigham Young University, on growing up on the island of Samoa.
What we know about history is that it repeats itself and some of the things that happened out here we don’t want repeated. So we want the kids to come out and to appreciate the sacrifise these people made.
Cory Hoopiiaina, who takes care of a Polynesian cemetery in the middle of Skull Valley, Utah.
A calming, peaceful movement. It’s unbelievable. It’s a great monument for a great man.
While much of the rest of Europe is struggling to pass harsh austerity packages, Germany is in the midst of a debate over cutting taxes by as much as $14.2 billion.
Germany Is Flying Above the Economic Storm in Europe - NYTimes.com
Never thought Germany’s economy would be the envy of the Western hemisphere…
This recovery is spread widely because every German town seems to have its periphery populated by the famed “mittelstand” of small and not-so-small companies, exporting countless unglamorous but profitable products. These companies are often family-owned and founded on values of quality and investment, combined with a shrewd search for markets.
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