11.   The author describes the reading room at the Beaubourg library in Paris.

12.   The authors describe case after case of professors and students silenced, punished, or exiled for daring to say things somebody deemed offensive.

13.   The authors describe Gagarin as a hotshot pilot who in some ways resembled American contemporaries like Chuck Yeager.

14.   The author described a tidy and welcoming clinic, with cookies in the waiting room.

15.   The author described watching rats rummaging among the corpses and starving babies sucking their fingers to the bone.

16.   The author describes how the Greeks and Romans, German immigrants, American colonists, Queen Victoria and others have influenced how we celebrate the holiday today.

17.   The author described the hunger, fear and isolation of the people left in the town and begged for international aid organizations to come.

18.   The author describes his youthful hikes and proves his knowledge of the area, but the writing is far from riveting.

19.   The author describes the four years she worked at The Washington Post, where she maintains black staff members were often belittled and underpaid.

20.   The author describes which columns work best with which architectural motif.