Senator CARL LEVIN (Democrat, Michigan): Dr. Gates, we appreciate your willingness to return to public life.

NPR: Committee Embraces Defense Nominee Gates

Then right around the lows in the spring of 2009 we saw the first glimmer of life return to the IPO market.

FORBES: The IPO Window is Wide Open

We continue to return to Detroit because it's one of the places that helped transform American life.

NPR: Detroit Mayor Dave Bing On City's Crisis

Though we aren't likely to return to an agricultural life or to stop feeding our children well and sending them to school, the very flexibility of the developing brain points to solutions.

WSJ: What's Wrong With the Teenage Mind?

"Our intent is to return to America, if at all possible, and settle down to whatever normal life we can settle down to under the circumstances, " he said.

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