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...traveling and I loved reading, and by the time you add all that stuff up there’s only so many things you can do,” says Jasanoff, who has traveled to over 50 countries. She adds that both her parents are professors, so she became familiar with the career early on. “I grew up...knowing that it was going to be really hard for me to have a job going from 9 to 5, to have a boss, having little control over what I did with my day.” Julie Zikherman...
Davis, 41, is keenly aware that much of his bid's appeal - and challenge - lies in his personal narrative. That's why he began his recent talk in Rainbow City, before the audience of a couple of dozen people, with a familiar anecdote. On the day before Easter Sunday, 1977, he tells the audience, his single mother, a high school teacher, brought him to Alabama's state capitol for the first time. He was awed by the place. "I never could have imagined, growing up in West Montgomery, I'd ever have a chance to travel beyond that neighborhood, much...
Peppered with questions about the issue in a tense press conference, Crdova responded that there had been mixed signals from the flu epidemic in La Gloria and most who had taken ill had suffered from a familiar form of the influenza virus. He also said the government had no model of the H1N1 virus - which has features of avian, pig and human viruses - to base their studies on. "We never had this kind of epidemic in the world," he said on Monday. "This is the first time we have this kind of virus." As if to underline the point...
...mention his unforgettable voice, familiar not only to fans of the Philadelphia Phillies--for whom he had broadcast games since 1971--but also to people across the nation who heard him narrate highlights for NFL Films. When I joined the Phillies broadcast crew in 1980, I was a neophyte. In the beginning, my job was pretty much to get chairs for all the other guys. But I was lucky to work with a legend. Harry never pulled me aside to give me any kind of speech. I learned by observing and listening. I'd study his flow, his cadence...
...There were some crazy wind shifts,” Stokes said. “It was nice to be more familiar than the other fleets on how to deal with the conditions on our home river...