[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the read more

[The trains were never forgotten, but the extent of their influence only came to light with the arrival of the internet and the subsequent flowering of genealogical research. This obsession with roots will be felt especially keenly by foundlings, who often have no way of exploring their family histories.] I notice that genealogical sites now have warnings on them saying people should be ready for little surprises, ... They're not all going to find themselves descended from King Henry VIII or Richard Cur de Lion or Wellington. This is rather strange because it was pretty taken for granted a few generations ago that families had all kinds of little moments where things had gone not according to the book. It was just one of those things. You tried to accommodate it. There was no social welfare. You just had to sort it out within villages, the families, the parish. Children went to the workhouse, but people knew about it. Nowadays, there's a kind of surprise that these cases were so commonplace.

It is a concern to us as we are heading into the direction of increasing graduation standards. We want to read more

It is a concern to us as we are heading into the direction of increasing graduation standards. We want to make sure students have the foundation for that.

You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end read more

You can't be a professor and talk out of a textbook to teach locomotive operations. You can't create the end product without hands-on training.

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft read more

A small number of IT vendors are at the moment putting customers at risk of unwittingly running illegal software. Microsoft will not tolerate illegal copies of its software being sold.

My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I read more

My prime aim is to go to see the permanent member who has not been briefed properly. I think I owe it to the Chinese that I explain what has happened in these talks that I have attended, ... This Week.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

When two characters or two actresses are together for a while there is bound to be chemistry developing.

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look read more

Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't read more

They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. Turnovers hurt us. They took advantage and played a very up-tempo style. This game was a good measuring stick to show how far we need to go to make ourselves equally as good.

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general read more

There wasn't one particular thing that made us say we needed to have this drill, it's more of a general preparedness thing. We drill annually because a disaster situation stretches our resources and goes beyond our normal scope of day-to-day operations.