Word: learnedness
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The American sweep came a day after Kelly Clark took gold in the women's halfpipe, and offered rousing recognition that the X-Games generation had spray painted its ambition on the Olympics in neon colors. The X crowd is showing up on the tube, too. NBC's ratings for...
It is the start of a new semester, and with it comes the proverbial clean slate: new professors, new courses, new assignments and new —very expensive— coursepacks. I had never thought photocopying could be so costly, but since arriving here I’ve learned...
When I was a little kid, I took cello lessons. The cello, I quickly learned, is not a toy. It breaks when you drop it, it's a bully magnet, and it takes five years of agonizing practice before you stop sounding like a baby pterodactyl. Only much later did...
I often looked back and wished I had talked it out with her," Bud says. Over the years he has learned to be more communicative. Both declare their reunion a godsend. "It seemed so natural," says Jody, 83, "as if you'd been away from your home, unlocked the door...
Skating was my life. My father, a Chinese-American immigrant who went to M.I.T. to do his graduate work, had learned to skate with his school buddies on lakes in China. Later, when we lived in New York City, he bought me a pair of skates one Christmas. He took...