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I have often tried to tell the story of a place through people there.

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Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did... In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.
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If one is talking to a finance minister of a poor country, moral arguments tend not to get very far. But if you can argue that their country is going to grow 2 percent faster per year if they can just harness the power of the female half of the population more effectively, that is an argument they consider.
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In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.
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One of the principles of journalism is you don't lie. You never lie.
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...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.
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The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.
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We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field.
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We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur
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There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
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I think when hundreds of thousands of lives are on the line, you might have to set aside some principles.
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Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health
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A little bit of attention can go a long way.
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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.
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It is better to inconsistently save some lives than to consistently save none.
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Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives
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Guilt-tripping people does not work they tend to be turned off.
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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.
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The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.
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