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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
~ Alan Huffman
Alive
Anyone
Century
Chaos
Close
Death
Event
Experienced
Outbreak
Plague
Something
Who
Widespread
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Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
~ Alan Huffman
Architecture
Come
Design
Distant
Generally
Given
Located
Locations
Often
Projects
Students
Theoretical
Up
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Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
~ Alan Huffman
Area
Aside
Building
Developed
Down
Due
Islands
Land
Nature
Parks
Shortage
Singapore
Up
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Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.
~ Alan Huffman
Based
Environment
German
Green
Grow
Idea
Literally
Natural
Other
Prototype
Singapore
Trees
Tropical
Walls
Where
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Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.
~ Alan Huffman
Adrenaline
Back
Big
Big Event
Bombs
Bullets
Comparatively
Conflict
Day
Event
Fabric
Fall
Fly
High
Home
Involve
May
New
Often
Other
Photographers
Runs
Secure
Selecting
Sofa
Themselves
Two
Where
Which
Worlds
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Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
~ Alan Huffman
America
Around
Bottom
Cape
Entire
Had
Historically
Horn
Including
Maritime
Mass
North
Pass
South
South America
Tip
Travelers
Which
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Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
~ Alan Huffman
Clearly
Embedded
Enemy
Greatest
Greatest Threat
Historically
Journalists
Means
Side
Themselves
Threat
War
Which
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In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.
~ Alan Huffman
About
Access
Continents
Define
Describe
Everything
Extended
Features
Forms
Information
Instantaneous
Knowledge
Life
Life Forms
Oceans
Our
Pervasive
Physical
Provides
Quest
Reach
Seemingly
Technology
Through
Us
Which
World
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Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.
~ Alan Huffman
Along
Bacteria
Basic
Becomes
Cases
Devices
Dies
Diseases
Epidemic
Follow
Host
Left
Many
Others
Own
Process
Same
Sick
Tend
Virus
Way
Who
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Life feels more vivid in a conflict zone. It is clear what matters, and who you can count on, for what.
~ Alan Huffman
Clear
Conflict
Count
Feels
Life
Matters
More
Vivid
Who
You
Zone
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Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for locals, off-limits to migrant workers altogether.
~ Alan Huffman
Admission
Altogether
Anyone
Bay
Casino
Costly
Free
International
Like
Migrant
Much
Passport
Singapore
Workers
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Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.
~ Alan Huffman
Associates
Between
Conversations
Exchanges
Kind
Long-Distance
Normally
Place
Plane
Sometimes
Strangers
Take
Train
Unlike
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Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.
~ Alan Huffman
American
Car
Era
Flickering
Gas
Lamps
Lit
Many
Pulled
Rail
Rooted
Steam
Trains
View
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Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.
~ Alan Huffman
Accessible
Approaches
Cameras
Centuries
Drive
Even
Everest
Human
Imagery
Most
Mount
Mount Everest
Now
Physically
Planet
Reach
Satellite
Synonymous
Through
Video
Which
Within
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My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
~ Alan Huffman
Bound
Childhood
Dates
Experience
Family
Grandmother
Jackson
Memphis
Mississippi
My Own
Off
Own
See
Station
Trains
Trips
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Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
~ Alan Huffman
Africa
Asia
Board
Day
Destination
Each
Each Day
Europe
Even
Final
Jobs
Knowing
Nations
Parts
Plane
Plentiful
Poor
Sometimes
Travelers
Well
Where
Without
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Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
~ Alan Huffman
18th Century
Believed
Century
Depths
Equivalent
First
Infinite
Late
Lines
Many
Ocean
Outer
Outer Space
People
Probe
Right
Seas
Space
Until
Up
Used
Were
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The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.
~ Alan Huffman
Conjecture
Empirical
Even
Frontier
Globe
Human
Inference
Knowledge
Last
Measurement
Mix
Ocean
Product
Scientific
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The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.
~ Alan Huffman
Claims
Closed
Country
Disputes
Employment
Exploitation
Government
Leave
Legal
Migrant
Represents
Requires
Settled
Stay
Until
Which
Workers
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The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.
~ Alan Huffman
Delays
Enable
Freight
Hour
More
Pace
Particularly
Pass
Rail
Slow
Trains
Which
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