Word: learns
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...list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them anything we want and then leave. For a moment you have available to you the whole universe of a person's life -- the pain and the suffering...
...politics was local politics. A Missoula newspaper gave second billing to statehood, emphasizing instead the selection of the first U.S. Senators. "It was a surprise to us to learn how modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman...
Unless Bloch confesses, the U.S. may never learn his motives or how much damage he may have done. And so far he has held his own remarkably well against the mass-media version of the third degree...
Some summer jobs are just a way to earn money. But for 23 college students who are willing to brave the heat of New York City, it's also a chance to learn firsthand how we produce our magazines. Eighteen of our interns have spent the summer at SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, PEOPLE and other publications. Here at TIME, five labor right alongside their professional counterparts in different departments. Last month, as a reporter-researcher in the Nation section, Stanford senior Frank Quaratiello interviewed a survivor of the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Sioux City, Iowa, and is writing the Milestones...
...fishing for trout is an undemocratic sport. It takes intelligence and skill to learn, a healthy income to afford and plenty of free time to practice. Though bait fishermen scoff that snobs use flies as an excuse to keep worm and minnow goo off their hands, fly-fishermen approach the sport with an almost mystical reverence. Perhaps that's because learning to catch trout is a complex process bordering on religion. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., now embraced by nearly 500,000 fisherpeople...