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Copy to clipboard Sleepless in Seattle, but the timeless classic remains just as much of a fan favorite now as it did upon its release. Some of us have have grown up watching Annie Reed and Sam Baldwin fall in love from opposite sides of the country, yet there are some behind-the-scenes facts about how it all came together that still slip by even those who have watched the movie countless times. There are revelations from the making of Sleepless in Seattle that director Nora Ephron exposed years later on the DVD commentary track, random moments that have come up in retrospectives from the fi...

By Cynthia Levinson, Melissa Stewart, and Jennifer Swanson | Jan 07, 2021 A recent column in the As nonfiction writers for young readers, we were dismayed—though not surprised—by Mathews’s assumption that “the books students choose to read are almost always fiction.” We frequently encounter adults who mistakenly believe that children think “Textbooks. Ugh,” as he writes, when they hear “nonfiction.” We wish Mathews could accompany us on a school visit—live or virtual—because here’s what kids are actually saying: “I like nonfiction because you gain kn...

>> woodruff: spencer michels reports on the campaign against hepatitis-b-- a deadly disease afflicting millions of asians worldwide. >> about one in 20 people in the world are chronically infected. one in 20. 10 times more than people in the world are infected with h.i.v. ♪ michelle, my belle... >> lehrer: and we close with paul mccartney singing for the president and the first lady at the white house. that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: but the workings froze in the deep, cold water. after that, a hose was inserted ...