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Nicholas Kristof
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Born: Apr 27, 1959
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You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation. Nicholas Kristof
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Maybe our best family trip started at Victoria Falls, which drenches you with spray and is so vast that it makes Niagara Falls seem like a backyard creek. Then we rented a car and made our way to Hwange National Park, which was empty of people but crowded with zebras, giraffes, elephants and more. Nicholas Kristof
Best Family You People Car Made National Our Way Backyard Giraffes Trip Seem More Crowded Park Vast Like Empty Makes Spray Falls National Park Maybe Which Victoria Then Niagara Elephants Started Creek
I took a gap year myself after high school and worked on a farm near Lyon, France. I stayed with the Vallet family, picked and packed fruit, and discovered that red wine can be a breakfast drink. That led to further travel as a university student. Nicholas Kristof
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I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn't capitalize on that. Nicholas Kristof
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One of the things that really got to me was talking to parents who had been burned out of their villages, had family members killed, and then when men showed up at the wells to get water, they were shot. Nicholas Kristof
Family Me Water Men Parents Members Out One Of The Things Had Talking Got Were Been Up Get Family Members Burned Then Shot Really Who Villages Things
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night. Nicholas Kristof
Husband Nothing Through Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Heading Dead Child Maybe Sudden Desert Night
There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in. Nicholas Kristof
Matter Black Sense Aid Black Hole Brought Seems Never Well-Meaning Fixed American Africa Hole Even Among
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change. Nicholas Kristof
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It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case. Nicholas Kristof
Become Darfur Case Remarkable Name Household Household Name Am Quite Really Gratified
There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted. Nicholas Kristof
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As soon as I was old enough to drive, I got a job at a local newspaper. There was someone who influenced me. He wrote a column for The Guardian from this tiny village in India. Nicholas Kristof
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The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas Kristof
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I try to be careful about wording. One of the things I've tried to combat in my blog is the notion that journalists are arrogant and unconcerned with the readership. Nicholas Kristof
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It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president. Nicholas Kristof
Blame President Easy Republicans Keep
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. Nicholas Kristof
Care Recipients Neither Rural About Countries Like Female Nor Cameroon Western Donor African Poor Much Who
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect. Nicholas Kristof
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A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality. Nicholas Kristof
Few Way Mortality Countries Like Maternal Led Lanka Slashing Honduras
If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic. Nicholas Kristof
Genocide Cancer President President Bush France Immediate Further Darfur About Priority Spreading Up Shore Stop African Which Central Republic Bush Working Means Chad Serious
Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student. Nicholas Kristof
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In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by some clerics that they mustn't wear seatbelts for fear of showing the outlines of their bodies. Nicholas Kristof
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Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches. Nicholas Kristof
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We journalists are a bit like vultures, feasting on war, scandal and disaster. Turn on the news, and you see Syrian refugees, Volkswagen corruption, dysfunctional government. Yet that reflects a selection bias in how we report the news: We cover planes that crash, not planes that take off. Nicholas Kristof
War Government News You Corruption Bit Syrian Scandal See Selection Take Journalists Like Disaster Bias How Cover Off Reflects Report Refugees Crash Dysfunctional Turn Turn-On Planes
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power. Nicholas Kristof
Power Our Self-Absorbed Quest Often Public Public Figures Figures Utterly
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism. Nicholas Kristof
Health Food Approach Take Vegetarianism Optimal May Ethical Reasons
Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom 90 percent. One escape from that is America's wild places. Nicholas Kristof
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One of our worst traits in journalism is that when we have a narrative in our minds, we often plug in anecdotes that confirm it. Thus we managed to portray President Gerald Ford, a first-rate athlete, as a klutz. Nicholas Kristof
President Our Minds Worst Plug Athlete Anecdotes Journalism Thus Ford Narrative First-Rate Traits Often Confirm Portray
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