"I swear, this weather has put the coffin nail in this little town."

"I swear, this weather has put the coffin nail in this little town."
Bill Shepherd
In Pierce City, Mo., which has been hit hard by tornadoes.
"I studied that pot in graduate school."
Marine Lt. Col. Matthew Bogdanos
On one of the world's oldest examples of hand-modeled clay -- one of many artifacts that disappeared during looting in Iraq. Bogdanos heads a 13-member team of U.S. officials investigating the pillage. The pot has been returned.
"Nature gives and then nature takes."
Poet Maxine Kumin
A former New Hampshire poet laureate, on a natural rock formation called the Old Man in the Mountain that crumbled from its 1,200-foot-high mountainside perch.