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It is very difficult to generalise. Everyone's adventure is original. Bernard Pivot

Difficult Everyone Adventure Very Original

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic. Bernard Pivot

Speak Language Calm Those Both French Makes Dynamic Who

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books. Bernard Pivot

Nothing Books Latest Had New Concept Condition Agreed Found

There is a pride in speaking this language. Bernard Pivot

Pride Language Speaking

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. Bernard Pivot

Great Language Stress Our Clarity Subtleties Place Showing Expressing Nuances

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words. Bernard Pivot

Words Gender Difficulties Almost Almost All Speakers English

So many white people don't want to talk about race; it's uncomfortable. Many reason that slavery happened more than a century ago, and people alive today had nothing to do with it. But the particulars of these stories, from slavery to segregation to civil rights and mass incarceration, are at the marrow of life in America today. Beth Macy

Life Today Rights People Nothing White Alive Marrow Civil Civil Rights About More Segregation Uncomfortable Had Mass Talk Than America Want Stories Happened Race Century Incarceration Reason Many Slavery

From 1840 to 1940, the circus was the biggest form of entertainment in the country. People were starting to have money, starting to have half a Saturday off. In an era before people went on vacations much, the big deal was when the circus came through town. Beth Macy

Photographers do more assignments than reporters do, so they know their communities better. Beth Macy

Better Photographers More Know Than Reporters Communities Assignments

We need more leadership at every level: federal, state, and local. Beth Macy

Leadership Every State Local More Federal Level Need

I grew up in a factory town - Urbana, Ohio. Beth Macy

Factory Town Up Ohio Grew

I think of Harriet Muse as one fierce lady. She couldn't read. She had no education. She did labor her whole life. And she stood up to Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey at a time where she was told where to work, where to sit, and she demanded that they pay attention to her. Beth Macy

Life Work Education Time Sit Pay Pay Attention Think Harriet Brothers Had Attention Demanded Bailey She Read Up Labor Did Stood Where Lady Fierce Whole Her Muse

You need time to build relationships with subjects to win their trust. Beth Macy

Time You Trust Win Build Relationships Subjects Need

Even with good maps, there's no guarantee that the public will get the word about landslide hazards, or that state and local governments will take action to discourage or prevent building in dangerous areas. Bill Dedman

Good Dangerous Word Will Building Action State Local Local Governments No Guarantee About Prevent Area Take Hazards Discourage Governments Get Public Landslide Even Maps Guarantee

The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering. Bill Dedman

Government Adversity Home Moody Recession Starts Month States Data Risk Economic Area Recovering Prices Industrial Employment Track Housing Metro Label Expanding Created Production Fortunes Uses Each

At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on 'fresh fruit and veggies' for the kids, and 'as little processed foods as possible.' Bill Dedman

Fruit Husband Kids Possible Foods Point Instructions Fresh Up Stock Processed Little Sent Sarah Sarah Palin Her Palin

After every massacre in a school, Americans grasp at quick cures. 'Let's install metal detectors and give guns to teachers' Let's crack down on troublemakers, weeding out kids who fit the profile of a gunman. Let's buy bulletproof whiteboards for the students to scurry behind, or train kids to throw erasers or cans of soup at an attacker.' Bill Dedman

Buy Troublemakers School Down Every Kids Out Detector Guns Give Throw Install Students Massacre Metal Bulletproof Soup Fit Quick Train Cures Crack American Behind After Cans Teachers Who Grasp Profile

In more than 500 instances, from the Gulf of Alaska to Bar Harbor, Maine, FEMA has remapped waterfront properties from the highest-risk flood zone, saving the owners as much as 97 percent on the premiums they pay into the financially strained National Flood Insurance Program. Bill Dedman

New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. Bill Dedman

Time Risks First Adding States Properties Rivers New Along First Time Oceans Estimation Many Maps Flood Streams Zone Raised

Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati. Bill Dedman

Best Cincinnati Summer Out Seems Notwithstanding Bring Humidity

In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks. Bill Dedman

Before Club Months Destroyed Hurricane Beach High-Risk New Like Yacht Yachts FEMA Sticks August Up York Stacked Just New York Which Request Sandy Granted Flood Zone Two Damaged

Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, have a surprisingly low risk of damage from those earthquakes. Why? They built anticipating a major quake. Bill Dedman

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not. Bill Dedman

School Increasing Types Say General Whether Hard Incidence Violence

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