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Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Able Believe Children Competition Failure Fear Handle Helps Others Parents Prepare Some Succeed Will

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The Manhattan district attorney has closed the well-publicized investigation of the handling of the $300 million fortune of reclusive heiress Huguette Clark - without charging anyone with a crime.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Anyone Attorney Charging Clark Closed Crime District Fortune Handling Investigation Manhattan Million Reclusive Without

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Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Artist Clark Collector Doll Painter

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John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Deaf Family Father Garden Glenn Help Home Injuries John Known Mostly Out Over Sold Town War World World War World War I Young

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Less than a year after the Sept. 11 attacks, al-Qaida attacks were continuing: the firebombing of a synagogue in Tunisia in April, a bomb outside the U.S. Consulate in Karachi in June.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: After April Attacks Bomb Continuing June Less Outside Sept Synagogue Than Tunisia Were Year

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Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Alleged He Involved Leader Mohammed Muscle Pilot Plot Sept Trained

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After a plane or train crash, the National Transportation Safety Board dispatches its experts within two hours. The investigators in their familiar jackets take charge of the scene, secure evidence, follow leads.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: After Board Charge Crash Evidence Experts Familiar Follow Hours Jackets Leads National Plane Safety Scene Secure Take Train Transportation Two Within

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An investigation by msnbc.com shows that the CDC routinely takes as long as a month - and sometimes as long as nine months - to visit the scene of firefighter deaths.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Deaths Firefighter Investigation Long Month Months Nine Nine Months Scene Shows Sometimes Takes Visit

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There's a longstanding tradition that journalists don't cheer in the press box. They have opinions, like anyone else, but they are expected to keep those opinions out of their work.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Box Cheer Else Expected Journalists Keep Like Opinions Out Press Those Tradition Work

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The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Both Both Sides Distrust Fueled Iraq Iraq War Press Sides War

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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