When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the THINGS involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a KIND of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you SUFFERED.

2010 was SORT of this shock and shift in CONGRESS, with the real emergence of the TEA Party.

With the emergence of the INTERNET, it has BECOME possible for creative and bold people with focus and DETERMINATION to establish BUSINESSES in some of our remotest communities. But these will not WORK if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.

Middle grade fiction, to me, is REALLY about emergence of SELF. It's about EXPRESSING the idea that the WORLD is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

There's been the emergence of a PHILOSOPHY that big data is all you need. We WOULD suggest that, ACTUALLY, numbers don't SPEAK for themselves.

Ring Kuot, a 15-year-old Sudanese BOY, was rumored to be eight feet THREE. And until Leonid's emergence at eight feet FOUR inches LAST spring, people generally assumed that Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, at seven feet nine, was the tallest documented man in the world.