1. Heavy use of the internet may contribute to the international tendency toward breadth rather than depth of knowledge. Using those most essential skills—pointing and clicking—our brightest minds may now never encounter, much less read, the works of Aristotle, Shakespeare, or Steinbeck.

2. Many experts in constitutional law have warned that the rule violates civil rights. Yet other experts have viewed the rule, however regretfully, as necessary for the good of the community as a whole.

3. Anyone who cherishes life in all its forms could not help being outraged by the mistreatment of laboratory animals. The so-called scientists who run the labs are evil.

4. Therefore, data collected by these researchers indicate that a mandatory sentence for illegal possession of marijuana does not stop its use. This data also indicates that such a penalty overcrowds the prison system.

5. Most advertisers who run commercials on television worry that government regulation of the volume of their commercials will lead to decreased sales. Yet most advertisers also accept that the volume of commercials is a fair target for regulation.

6. “...finding a job is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time and flexible enough to take whatever is being offered that day.” (Nickel and Dimed, 15)

7. “They have turned one of the nation's best-paying manufacturing jobs [meatpacking] into one of the lowest-paying, created a migrant workforce of poor immigrants, tolerated high injury rates, and spawned rural ghettos in the American heartland.” (Fast Food Nation, 82)

8. “And now that I am fresh out of college, broke, and bordering on homelessness anyway, it seems like as good a time as any to let it out [his plan to live for a year as a homeless person].” (Scratch Beginnings, 2)

9. “Carl N. Karcher is one of the fast food industry's pioneers. His career extends from the industry's modest origin to its current hamburger hegemony.” (Fast Food Nation, 13)

10. “And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand. Behind them the new tractors were going on the land and the tenants were being forced off. And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous.” (The Grapes of Wrath, 318)