Word: learns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written, than good shop talk, and this is superb -- direct, expert and reeling with the joys of outdoor adventure...
...last possibility was that KGB agents had entered the code room and installed some kind of device. One of the Marines posted just down the hall could have let the Soviets into the embassy. He might also have been able to help the KGB learn the combination to the vaultlike front door of the PCC. But once inside, Soviet operatives would have been faced with several locked doors, one of which led to the CIA's area: that would have been the target. Inside that room was a subvault that housed the CIA's printers, communications and coding machines...
...learn a lot of things--not just aboutwriting, but about working with people. It waskind of like a trial run for future days in TheReal World. After surviving a 5 a.m. Press runwith a sexist managing editor standing over myshoulder. I felt capable of facing just aboutanything...
They say that you learn more from the studentshere than from the professors. That's trueespecially if you luck out like me and get greatroommates. It helps, of course, if you're laidback and tolerant of the people with whom youlive. After all, it takes some people a whilelonger than others to get used to marriage...
Almost any student here will tell you that the teachers you learn the most from are the junior professors who still have the time, energy and interest in their students...