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Radium, discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898, was especially popular: the 'it' element of its day. Radium glows an eerie blue-green in the dark, giving off light for years without any apparent power source. People had never seen anything like it.

Sam Kean

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PowerLightDayPeopleGivingDark

I've gone for each type: the rough guy; the nerdy, sweet, lovable guy; and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.

Jennifer Aniston

GoodMenSweetGoneNerdyGuy

To lose a child is - I can't imagine anything worse than that.

John F. Kelly

ChildLoseAnythingImagineWorse

Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios.

John Sununu

TodayChallengesColdBudgetProblem

It's okay to talk about mental health issues. It's okay to admit that you have anxiety. It doesn't take away from your power. It's totally normal.

Torrey DeVitto

PowerHealthAnxietyMental Health

I was not easy to cast, but also, I have never been typecast.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

EasyNeverBeenCastAlsoTypecast

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

CommunitySportsGreatCityTeam

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

WalkMemorySolitudeNightThinking

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

WomenBeautifulI AmInsecurityHair

To forget that the EPA was borne out of public demand is to invite a real backlash.

Christine Todd Whitman

ForgetRealOutDemandInviteEPA

'She's a Mystery to Me' was released in 1987, when I was 11 or something, and I absolutely adored the song. This song was written by Bono and The Edge, and the story goes that Bono woke up with the tune in his head, then thought that the only voice who could sing this song is Roy Orbison.

Cillian Murphy

MeSongVoiceStoryThoughtMystery

Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.

Brenda Fassie

LoveStarsDeepDownTalkInside

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Augusto Pinochet

DemocracySometimesBloodMust

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