Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

What problem did Chris encounter in his Division?

For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block— I was not able to produce anything for three years.

When these students encounter a new problem of the same type on a test, they're able to transfer the knowledge they've gathered more effectively than those who were the passive recipients of someone else's expertise.

They are more likely to encounter interracial conflicts.

They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, and through debating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.

In its first encounter it might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming, but as it came to know the user it would progress to a more relaxed and intimate style.

What problem did Chris encounter in his Division?

It has encountered increasingly tougher challenges.

Well, we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker.