Almost all Americans would recognize Anchorage, because Anchorage is that part of any city where the city has burst its seams and extruded Colonel Sanders.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

With their four-dimensional minds, and in their interdisciplinary ultra verbal way, geologists can wiggle out of almost anything.

If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.

Nonfiction-wha t the hell, that just says, this is nongrapefruit we're having this morning.

Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research.

He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between.