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Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing (Bill Dedman Quotes)
The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector (Bill Dedman Quotes)
History is the best guide to the future (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas (Bill Dedman Quotes)
The term ‘triage’ normally means deciding who gets attention first (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Jason McDermott’s political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
In votes cast, Latinos have increased to five million in the 1996 Presidential election, up from two million in the 1976 election. The number of Hispanic elected officials has not risen so fast. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Each year, at the typical nuclear reactor in the U.S., there’s a 1 in 74,176 chance of an earthquake strong enough to cause damage to the reactor’s core, which could expose the public to radiation. No tsunami required. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
The entire federal budget for landslide research is $3.5 million a year - far less than the property value lost on a single day when 17 mansions slid down a hill in 2005 in Laguna Beach, Calif. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Ted Williams, an extraordinary hitter in his day, has said the swing starts in the hips, and Sosa arrived with one of the strongest lower bodies in the game. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers’ compensation. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
At one point, Sarah Palin sent her husband instructions to stock up on ‘fresh fruit and veggies’ for the kids, and ‘as little processed foods as possible.’ (Bill Dedman Quotes)
New flood maps in many states have raised the estimation of flood risks along rivers, streams and oceans, adding many properties to flood zones for the first time. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
More than 30 of America’s 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, ‘as little as we could get by with at the time.’ (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
State courts usually rule that correspondence between government officials, about government business, are public records, whether they use their government e-mail accounts or private ones. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it’s vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups (Bill Dedman Quotes)
Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is ‘predatory lending.’ (Bill Dedman Quotes)
The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn’t have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions. (Bill Dedman Quotes)
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