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Owen, who has a passion for food--she toys with the idea of going into the restaurant business at some point--spent five days studying and cooking with professional chefs at the Greystone campus of the renowned Culinary Institute of America (CIA). The school is in St. Helena, in the heart of California's Napa Valley, about 1 1/2 hr. north of San Francisco. "When I put the chef's hat on and stepped into one of the best kitchens in the world, I felt a tingle," says Owen, who spent $850 on the course...
...Ford's passion, however, was not Central Asia but China. His interest was sparked by an uncle, Leonard Trigg, a kung fu expert who often traveled to Asia. Ford learned martial arts from Trigg and chose his high school--Lincoln--because it taught Chinese. Ford continued to study the language at Portland State University, where teachers regarded him as an ideal student. "We expected him to have a career in international relations," says Linda Walton, a professor of Chinese...
...passion for personal connections is echoed in the way she motivates her rowers. Pstuka recalls a favorite quote of O’Leary’s: “Sometimes you gotta go out there and just love...
British historian Thomas Pakenham is best known for his books about colonial Africa, but his real passion is trees. Huge trees. Majestic trees. Misshapen trees. Historic trees. Trees, as he puts it, with "noble brows and strong personalities" that are impossible to ignore...
...years ago, British citizens seem divided over whether they should chastise or cheer him. The revelations came with the serialized publication of the diaries of EDWINA CURRIE, who disclosed that between 1984 and 1988, when both she and Major were married and serving in government, they shared a passion for more than just Tory ideology. Major, who became Prime Minister in 1990, had a reputation for being a bland bureaucrat, an image reinforced by his "Back to Basics" campaign, an attempt to upgrade the image of the Conservative Party after several members were caught in sex scandals. With Currie offering...