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Random violence is incredibly infectious.
A little bit of attention can go a long way.
The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.
The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.
The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.
One death is a tragedy, and a million deaths are a statistic.
It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.
Neither left nor right has focused adequately on maternal health.
Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices.
Just a little help, a small security force, a bit of food, can save lives.
I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.
Traditionally, what we in the news business do is cover what happened yesterday.
You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.
The conflict in Darfur could escalate to where we're seeing 100,000 victims per month.
The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.
Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.
Zimbabwe has far fewer tourists than South Africa or Kenya, and there's less crime as well.
A few countries like Sri Lanka and Honduras have led the way in slashing maternal mortality.
I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight.
My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.
You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
It really is quite remarkable that Darfur has become a household name. I am gratified that's the case.
Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.
Numeracy isn't a sign of geekiness, but a basic requirement for intelligent discussions of public policy.
We all might ask ourselves why we tune in to these more trivial matters and tune out when it comes to Darfur.
Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.
Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition.
The one public system in which America goes out of its way to provide services to African-Americans is prison.
Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example of intolerance by banning churches.
Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends.
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
Half a million women die each year around the world in pregnancy. It's not biology that kills them so much as neglect.
It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.
It's maddening in my travels to watch children dying simply because they were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Perhaps no country in Latin America is more picturesque than Bolivia, and the most memorable Bolivian city may be Potosi.
In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids?
Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.
While Americans have heard of Darfur and think we should be doing more there, they aren't actually angry at the president about inaction.
Worrying about bills, food, or other problems leaves less capacity to think ahead or to exert self-discipline. So, poverty imposes a mental tax.
All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.
Things that happen every day are, frankly, what we in the news business aren't good at covering because there is no one day in which they are news.
I think we in journalism were really late to social networks. We had a built-in network already in terms of our readers, and we didn't capitalize on that.
You educate a boy, and he'll have fewer children, but it's a small effect. You educate a girl, and, on average, she will have a significantly smaller family.
There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.
The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.