In 1900, the typical American was a boy, not yet a teenager, named John. He lived with his parents and his sisters, Mary and Helen, on a farm in New York or Pennsylvania.
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
I've always been controversial because I offer new ideas. For me to be controversial, I think this is positive.
The positive news is that the British economy is continuing to grow and is creating jobs. And it is positive news too that at a time of real international instability we are a safe haven in the storm.
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City.
If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were justified.
New York is a granite beehive, where people jostle and whir like molecules in an overheated jar. Houston is six suburbs in search of a center.
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them
Kristin Brown looks as though she could have been mailed first-class to New York for about a dollar and a half.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
I tip my hat to the new constitution, I take a bow for the new revolution, smile and grin at the change all around me.
News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa.
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness.
After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
Everything new is on the rim of our view, in the darkness, below the horizon, so that nothing new is visible but in the light of what we know.
My weekends start at about 4 P.M. on Friday afternoon, when I let go of work and leave my colleagues to crawl through the rest of the day in our New York offices.
