She discovered how much the mechanics of an election mattered.
At a fall building workshop here in 2010, she discovered how much she liked working with her hands.
At first she was so shy she used to sing with her eyes closed, but then she discovered how to move around and communicate with her audience.
Her parents separated and she discovered how vulnerable her stay-at-home mother was because she hadn't earned her own income.
She spent many sleepless nights worried that her children would not excel on standardized tests, until she discovered how low the scores at the local schools were.
Then, in 1989, she discovered how cotton was produced – the terrible cost, to humans and the environment, of blanket use of pesticides – and decided things had to change.
Along the way, she discovers how much water is lost to leakage in the United States — a trillion gallons a year — and how low its price is related to its value and growing scarcity.
Curious why someone would risk his life fighting a fire in an abandoned building, Ms. Sanchez visited her local fire station, where she discovered how badly the Detroit department was besieged.
