The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play 'Drop the Handkerchief.'
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JAMES SUROWIECKI I was a Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan fan growing up.
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JAMES BUCHAN We have two programs dealing with bulletproof vests, two different systems of actually distributing ...
JAMES LANKFORD For me, the bulimia was about stuffing my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.
CHERYL JAMES As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to ...
JAMES GLEICK The fact is, an America's Cup team is more than a sailing team. It's anywhere from sort of 8...
JAMES SPITHILL Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which c...
JAMES MADISON They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.
JAMES STOCKDALE The rise of computer crime and armed robbery has not eliminated the lure of caged cash.
JAMES CHILES I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in m...
JAMES LAUGHLIN I have made things for Calvin Klein and other designers, and it's interesting to see the way eac...
JAMES TURRELL