Word: learned
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...send the cadets on field training exercisesto Fort Devens [in Ayer, Mass.] once a semesterwhere they learn about leadership and teamwork inland navigation, patrolling, and competitiveexercise," Welch says. "Seniors run the wholeorganization, they lead and command the cadetbatallions...
...TIME are naturally proud of the work we do, but it is always gratifying to learn that others think highly of it too. In the annual round of journalism awards this spring, the magazine was once again honored with high praise from its peers...
There were lessons for the U.S. nuclear industry to learn from the Chernobyl accident. An important one was that authorities must be able to evacuate people living near nuclear plants, quickly moving them out of the path of any radioactive releases. Soviet officials had to clear out four communities with very little warning. It is hard to imagine how people living around some American nuclear facilities, including Indian Point, Zion and Limerick, which are located near the major population centers of New York City, Chicago and Philadelphia respectively, could be quickly evacuated...
Soviet citizens received vastly less information about Chernobyl than was available to the outside world. In Kiev, foreigners were the first to learn of the seriousness of the accident when authorities warned West German technicians on Tuesday that the Chernobyl area was being sealed off. Most of the Soviet Union spent last week in a festive mood for the annual May Day pageant, which combines celebrations of international worker solidarity with the rites of spring. Amid the red flags and bunting that adorned Moscow's bridges and thoroughfares for the four-day holiday, headlines about the ruined reactor would have...
Jhabvala, 59, knows more about the challenges of living and writing in India than she ever meant to learn. Born in Germany of Polish parents and educated in England, she married a visiting Indian architect and went home with him in 1951. Except for this accident of the heart, she writes, "I don't think I would ever have come here for I am not attracted--or used not to be attracted --to the things that usually bring people to India." She was not, in short, a do-gooder, a foreign-service careerist or a spiritual pilgrim. But her European...