Word: honing
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Harvard too helped Hax hone her natural skills of observing people. She credits the University with giving her valuable people experience. “It was great living among all kinds of people,” she explains, “I spent lots of time with them, even at times when I should have been at class. And that is the beauty of life at Harvard, there are people from all walks of life who are very gifted at expressing themselves. Not everybody is as good at articulating. Ideas are brought up at dinner and batted around...
...more modern fare, hail another taxi for a five-minute ride west to the small, sleek ShanghART Gallery, where avant-garde artists show off their best work. The gallery is nestled in Fuxing Park, a secluded green space where pensioners go through the dreamlike motions of Tai Chi or hone their falsettos to traditional Shanghai opera...
...year-old barrel racer who competed while legally blind, a one-armed calf roper, and a 66-year-old bronco rider who managed to beat a group of 20-year-olds. Pride motivates the tales, especially because the current crop of rodeo seniors considers itself the last generation to hone its skills by working on ranches rather than at specialized roping schools or college rodeos. "So many people get older and begin to shut down," says Kedo Olson, who emcees the N.S.P.R.A.'s shows, "but when you see those people compete, you realize they're still in good shape...
...When classes began last November, Hanjour didn't show. Immigration officials, who rarely track the whereabouts of student visa holders, had no idea where he was. The FBI now believes he spent much of his time in San Diego and Maryland, trying to hone his flying skills. But it appears that he resurfaced two weeks ago. It was a man by the same name who piloted American Airlines Flight 77 into the west wall of the Pentagon...
...idea that Osama bin Laden suddenly disappeared is, to say the least, implausible. To begin with, bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network is not a one-man show: it operates multiple training camps in many nations where would-be terrorists hone their homicidal skills. Even if bin Laden has slipped off into the night, it is almost impossible to believe that his entire organization followed suit. Furthermore, Pakistan and other neighboring countries are controlling their borders tightly, meaning that bin Laden has few places to turn. His exact whereabouts may be unknown, but there is strong reason...