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One Of My Favorite Activities As A Teen-ager Was To Watch Television Over The Phone With My Best Friend.

I Approach Stories As A Private Educational Enterprise: I Want To Learn About Something. I Teach Myself Through Research, Reporting, And Thinking, And Then, When I Feel Like I Know The Story, I Tell It To Readers.

When I Still Lived In Manhattan, People-watching Was My Hobby, And I Spent Many Sunday Afternoons Eating Up The Scene From A Window Seat At A Starbucks On Broadway.

Human Relationships Used To Be Easy: You Had Friends, Boy- Or Girlfriends, Parents, Children, And Landlords. Now, Thanks To Social Media, It's All Gone Sideways.

We're Fascinated By Animals Because It's Almost Like Having Martians Living Among Us. We Can See Some Familiarity In Them, But They're Entirely Different Creatures.