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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, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: About Access Continents Define Describe Everything Extended Features Forms Information Instantaneous Knowledge Life Oceans Our Pervasive Physical Provides Quest Reach Seemingly Technology Through Us Which World

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The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Conjecture Empirical Even Frontier Globe Human Inference Knowledge Last Measurement Mix Ocean Product Scientific

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Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Accessible Approaches Cameras Centuries Drive Even Everest Human Imagery Most Mount Mount Everest Now Physically Planet Reach Satellite Synonymous Through Video Which Within

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Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.

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Topics: Clear Conflict Count Feels Life Matters More Vivid Who You Zone

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Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Adrenaline Back Big Bombs Bullets Comparatively Conflict Day Event Fabric Fall Fly High Home Involve May New Often Other Photographers Runs Secure Selecting Sofa Themselves Two Where Which Worlds

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Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Architecture Come Design Distant Generally Given Located Locations Often Projects Students Theoretical Up

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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 islands and landfills.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Area Aside Building Developed Down Due Islands Land Nature Parks Shortage Singapore Up

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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 where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Africa Asia Board Day Destination Each Each Day Europe Even Final Jobs Knowing Nations Parts Plane Plentiful Poor Sometimes Travelers Well Where Without

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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 by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

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Topics: American Car Era Flickering Gas Lamps Lit Many Pulled Rail Rooted Steam Trains View

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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, bound for Memphis.

~Alan Huffman

Topics: Bound Childhood Dates Experience Family Grandmother Jackson Memphis Mississippi My Own Off Own See Station Trains Trips

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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