A Los Angeles Times reporter-photographer team, Sonia Nazario and Don Bartletti, won for international reporting for a six-part series, "Enrique's Journey," retracing a Honduran youth's 800-mile freight-train odyssey, an often dangerous trek emblematic of Latin American emigration north.
After the buzzer sounded, the American players stood still, transfixed, as if in disbelief that their six-month training odyssey had ended in the wrong place.
If I missed the last lift back to Cervinia, I faced a six-hour train and bus odyssey back or the prospect of spending the night in Zermatt; the only direct way between the two towns is on skis.
Larmer describes Yao's birth, training and ultimate odyssey to Houston, his parents right behind him, plus Yao's rivalry with the hapless Wang Zhizhi, who didn't last long in the National Basketball Association.
Lesser-known treats are the black-and-white trainspotter's odyssey The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel (1969) and Penda's Fen (1974), in which paganism meets cold-war politics.
Writing a novel from scratch, which is to say without training, was such an unexpected odyssey that I was prompted to recall the discoveries in my new book, Release the Bats – as much to remind myself where the power lay as to pass the keys on to others trying their luck.
Results indicated that the space odyssey paradigm was successful in training interpretations: children in the negative training condition quickly learned to choose negative outcomes, while children in the positive training condition rapidly learned to select positive outcomes.
I'd been commissioned to spend a two-year odyssey aboard the slow trains of Britain to rediscover the pleasures of our remaining branch lines as the 50th anniversary of the Beeching cuts approaches.
The odyssey of these men from training tents in Kuwait to occupied Baghdad is laid out with brutal candor and without the aid of maudlin cinematography or emotive music.
Until now, innumerable nights out in the capital have been brought to a premature end by "the last train": after midnight, normally quick journeys become impossible odysseys.
