And she was two weeks into a contract to work for The Los Angeles Times, collaborating on an article about organized-crime links to the entertainment industry.
One table over, Corinne Vizzacchero and Andrew Sloat, friends in their late thirties, were collaborating on an article about the Madame Binh Graphics Collective, the all-women propaganda arm of a Communist organization that was founded by members of the Weather Underground.
Like so many others, I first came across Ricky Brigante's work on his now-legendary Inside the Magic site some years ago, although it was only recently that we managed to speak for the first time, when collaborating on an article.
Steadman met Hunter S Thompson for the first time in 1970, in Kentucky, where they'd been put together by Scanlan's magazine to collaborate on an illustrated article about the derby (its publication introduced Gonzo journalism to the world for the first time).
Just last week, The New York Times, The Guardian and ProPublica collaborated on a significant article about the National Security Agency's effort to defeat encryption technologies.
Congress passed the law after an attack on a French diplomat in Philadelphia, said Anne-Marie Slaughter, a professor of international law at Harvard who collaborated on a recent article about the law for the journal Foreign Affairs.
THIRTY-TWO years ago, Gordon Moore, co-founder of the Intel Corporation, and a Michigan inventor named Stanford Ovshinsky collaborated on a technical article about a promising new type of computer memory that did not rely on silicon but rather on a thin film of germanium, tin, tungsten and other elements.
And in an online preview of the Education Life supplement that will be published in this weekend's Times, Tom Bartlett and Karin Fischer of The Chronicle of Higher Education collaborate with The Times on an article headlined: "The China Conundrum".
In 2011 there may be an answer.The highest-profile scientific event of the year will be the launch of the first module of an all-Chinese manned space station, to rival the "international" one that America, Canada, Russia, Europe and Japan collaborate on (see article).
I met her a couple years before this, because we collaborated on a TV show based on an article of mine, and it didn't work out.
