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Look, We'll Have To Confront The Pathologies Of Poverty At Some Point. We Can Deal With Them Cheaply At The Front End, In Infancy. Or We Can Wait And Jail A Troubled Adolescent At The Tail End. To Some Extent, We Face A Choice Between Investing In Preschools Or In Prisons.

The Equivalent Of Five Jumbo Jets' Worth Of Women Die In Labor Each Day, But The Issue Is Almost Never Covered.

America's Education System Has Become Less A Ladder Of Opportunity Than A Structure To Transmit Inequity From One Generation To The Next.

It Really Is Quite Remarkable That Darfur Has Become A Household Name. I Am Gratified That's The Case.

One Of The Things That Really Got To Me Was Talking To Parents Who Had Been Burned Out Of Their Villages, Had Family Members Killed, And Then When Men Showed Up At The Wells To Get Water, They Were Shot