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Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations.

Bill Bryson

I come from Des Moines. Someone had to.
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Des Moines Someone
Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.
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Believe Cities Clever
…and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that’s really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.
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Degree Ordinary People
Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days – that’s walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls – adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.
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Around Average Shopping Supermarket Walking
Physicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
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Atom Thinking Way
There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it.
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Littles Thinking Toothpaste
A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.
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Newspapers Screens World
Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls – you don’t find a sense of community in malls.
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Community Downtown Iowa
The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it.
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Accept Country Lesson Nothing Same Thing
Ordnance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings – every bit of it.
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Evening Maps Shower Summer Survey
You don’t have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he’s just this magnificent human being.
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Baseball Kids Successful
When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of which sat the Duke’s commode. The main hall was mysteriously floor less. Most of the rooms were painted pink.
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Chamber Dark Dukes Men
Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.
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Benefits Hiking Journey
Everywhere throughout New England you find old, tumbledown field walls, often in the middle of the deepest, most settled- looking woods- a reminder of just how swiftly nature reclaims the land in America.
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Country Deepest Land Look Wall
This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment.
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Fall Sadness Self
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
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Judging Skins Travel

Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations.

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