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Rachael Ray is probably the most watched kitchen personality in the history of American television.

~Bill Buford

Topics: American History Kitchen Most Personality Ray Television The History Of Watched

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As N.Y.C. Public Advocate, I released a report that showed that stop-and-frisks of African Americans in 2012 were barely half as likely to yield a weapon as those of white New Yorkers - and a third less likely to yield contraband. Despite this evidence, the vast majority of those stopped are young black and Latino men.

~Bill De Blasio

Topics: Advocate African African Americans American Barely Black Despite Evidence Half Latino Less Likely Majority Men New New Yorkers Public Released Report Stopped Third Those Vast Vast Majority Weapon Were White Yield Young

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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

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

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American nuclear reactors are well into middle age. The median age of an operating reactor in the U.S. is 34 years, placing start-up in midst of the Carter administration.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: Administration Age American Carter Middle Middle Age Midst Nuclear Operating Placing Start-Up Well Years

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America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: America American Know Safer Schools Streets Than

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In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: American Boy Farm He His John Lived Mary Named New New York Parents Pennsylvania Sisters Teenager Typical York

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Reggie Campbell and Kathleen Goldsmith are participants in an American success story, the unprecedented boom of home-buying by African-Americans in the 1990s. Only he is black and she is white. When he moved into the neighborhood, she moved out.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: American Black Boom Campbell He Moved Neighborhood Only Out Participants She Story Success Success Story Unprecedented White 1990S

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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: American Australian Both Family Ideas Public Public Service Respect Service Sides Theme

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I would not vote to raise the retirement age to 70 because there are just too many Americans that work hard all their lives and just simply physically couldn't work until they are 70.

~Bill Flores

Topics: Age American Because Hard Just Lives Many Physically Raise Retirement Retirement Age Simply Too Until Vote Work Work Hard Would

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I fully recognize we need to improve the path to citizenship, just as we need to value the hard work of folks who become American citizens legally.

~Bill Flores

Topics: American American Citizens Become Citizens Citizenship Folks Fully Hard Hard Work Improve Just Legally Need Path Recognize Value Who Work

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