Quotes from Bill Dedman

About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

The long view of the Census bureau allows some changes that are taken for granted to be studied in more detail. Everyone knows, for example, that people get married later than they used to.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45, 000, plus as much as $10, 000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.