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Pepin remembers a time when no respectable mother would want her daughter marrying a chef.
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To a certain extent, you can work with many different people, but you cannot escape yourself. At some point you are who you are, and that will be expressed in […]
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The "Big Man Syndrome" isn't a result of colonialism, Emanuel says.
It will take us another forty years to get over the Iraq syndrome.
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We're no longer dealing with bows and arrows, Emanuel says.
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The technology exists; the political will does not.
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Today's American has 10 times as much material resources as the American of the Civil War.
Leave behind something that's worth the the resources you have consumed.
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For better or for worse, the media is a filter for understanding medicine.
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Hear from Rahm's brother, Obama's new healthcare policy adviser Ezekiel Emanuel.
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Getting to know the city from the back of a delivery wagon.
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If you can afford it, be energy conscious.
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Most of us don't think our obituary ought to start, "He died with seven billion dollars."
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If we let researchers go wild, we would solve a lot of our problems.
Emanuel proves you can be an optimist and a pessimist at once.
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Science has improved our standard of living, as well as our capacity to kill.
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Emmanuel recognizes that he has had an extremely privileged life.
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Emanuel weighs competing values.