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Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

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• Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

  

  Aaron Klein
  • School
  • Name
  • Catholic

• I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Music
  • Think
  • Rock

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

  

  Haley Webb
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Never

• I never had money; I like nice things, but I don't let that run my life. At the same time, I have to let something drive me... so now I let the money drive me.

  

  Wale
  • Life
  • Time
  • Money

• When people go to Ladakh, they go to Leh; they don't go to everything in the middle.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • People
  • Everything
  • Go

• The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • People
  • Why
  • Question

• Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Hand

• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • God
  • Lost

• The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

  

  Linda Vester
  • World
  • Women
  • School

• My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.

  

  Alice Ripley

• I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.

  

  Aminatta Forna

• Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

  

  James Comey
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Law

• For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• The Internet offers the ability for people to consume poison and radicalize entirely in private, either through a device they're holding in their hands or inside their house.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • House

• I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• I love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to support farmers, especially the family farms.

  

  Daryl Hannah
  • Family
  • Support

• My mother has always been the social glue holding the family together.

  

  Kim Kardashian
  • Family
  • Together
  • Mother

• What's your name, new best friend?

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Friend

• Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Movie
  • City
  • Christian

• Vulnerability is a wonderful thing. We're all so afraid to be vulnerable in this world.

  

  Matisyahu
  • Things
  • Wonderful
  • Vulnerability

• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah
  • Nature
  • Optimistic

• Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Vulnerability