National Center Quotations

Global data indicate a 30-year trend toward more frequent and intense hurricanes.

It is a long distance that the seismic waves have to travel before they reach Mexico City, ... and that reduces the amplitude of the waves. It is very much reduced at this distance.

It has been dropping quite dramatically, ... It's one of the factors.

Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

Physicians avoid telephone calls and often refuse to communicate with patients by e-mail because they do not get paid for these types of consultations.

It does, in fact, become a wake up call,

Whether an officer should have a weapon when entering a court facility is a very controversial subject, ... Each court is required to establish a local rule to determine what weapon policy best suits their court facility.

We want to hope these are not issues that attract coverage. I think it's probably a list of reasons.

It would be like trying to move a car with a pea shooter, ... The amount of energy involved in a hurricane is far greater that anything we're going to impart to it.

These results show that we will experience not only future climate change, but also the results of policies to reduce these changes, in ways that are not simply related to changes in the global mean temperature. Policy decisions about reducing greenhouse emissions should not, therefore, be dictated by projected changes in global mean temperature alone.

So that's a very good reminder to all of us that we need to teach our children as soon as they can talk,

Sadly, infant abductions happen. Not with a lot of regularity, but they do happen across the country,

The myth historically has been that these are country club prisons where inmates go out to swimming pools and get their nails done, ... Nothing could be further from the truth.

The best and the worst thing is now happening, ... People are finally being moved out of these shelters and churches and into temporary homes and apartments. While that is good news for them, it is a giant pain for us because it makes them even harder to find.

The intensity of this violence is on the way down,

In the future, pollution in the tropics will increase, so we'd better understand it now. The chemistry in the tropics is severely under sampled.

In women who are pregnant, it may make it more likely to have premature babies or have low birth weight babies, ... And in everyone, you can have less energy, you may be more tired and irritable, perhaps feel cold.