Miscellaneous

She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits read more

She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits perfectly in the U.S. which makes me realize there's not much difference between people.

This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. read more

This competition highlights the strengths of the new system. You can have rankings but still have people be very close. The new system allows for unpredictability.

That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time read more

That sounds like we're doing short-track or something. This is an extremely close competition. I think it's the first time we've been in a competition where it was this close. It just makes everything count that much more.

[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in read more

[Benigno Aguirre, of the Disaster Research Center at the University of Delaware, has been watching and reading about looters in Louisiana.] It may look from the outside as if they are stealing or breaking the law, ... when in fact some of them are trying to survive.

[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal read more

[The disaster in New Orleans] is not an act of god, ... This is an act of man. The federal government refused to spend the money to improve the levees.

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be read more

Neglected by Congress below, distressed with the small-pox; want of Generals and discipline in our Army, which may rather be called a great rabble, our credit and reputation lost, and great part of the country; and a powerful foreign enemy advancing upon us, are so many difficulties we cannot surmount them.

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few read more

We have a wretched motley Crew, in the Fleet; the Marines the Refuse of every Regiment, and the Seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt Water.

If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain read more

If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.

There is a whole host of applications that need to know user data. A lot of programmers want to know read more

There is a whole host of applications that need to know user data. A lot of programmers want to know about users without having to reinvent the wheel each time. The applications are better off having access to the user information.

If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the read more

If you are exposed to it with TV, music, pop culture, it becomes more acceptable. It's just part of the everyday lives. . . . With the older generation it's more foreign to them.