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...writing craft. Anyone can start. Looking at old pictures or magazines, remembering the way things tasted, sounded and smelled, and recalling a specific incident, such as the first day of school or the first family car, can bring a flood of memories. Some people write in solitude, while many prefer working with a group. Others want a gentle guide. Along their journey through the past, people discover that what may have seemed an unimportant event has value. They may write to exorcise terrible experiences, complete the grieving process or just give dignity to an everyday life. For most, there...
While not all the candidates assess the situation so harshly, most say they would prefer the Committee to shift its emphasis...
...wind dialogue coherence, ingenuity and the practice of a kind of explanatory principle (in this case by referring to body actions) that stands young children in very good stead when they don't know enough or have enough skill to handle the kind of explanation that grownups prefer...
...course we always prefer playing on the home field," DeVries said, "but what counts is that we come out ready to play...
...their gullibility. The companies, which include American Family Enterprises (partly owned by Time Inc., publisher of TIME), Publishers Clearing House and the Reader's Digest Association, might prefer to avoid regulation. They testified that contest rules and odds are being made clearer and that the names of people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on subscriptions in the hope of improving their odds were being dropped from their lists. That might avoid the complications created by one elderly contestant who signed up for magazines stretching until 2086. The subscriber then died, presumably wiser but poorer. His estate is trying...