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　　Margaret Bourke-White was one of the leading news reporters of the 20^th century．But she did not write news．She told her stories with a camera．Margaret Bourke-White began her career as an industrial photographer in the early 1930s．In 1936, she accepted the American publisher Henry Luce’s invitation and went to his magazine, called Life, and later another magazine called Fortune．

　　In the 1930s, Margaret Bourke-White met the American writer Erskine Caldwell．They decided to produce a book about poor country people of the South．They traveled through eight states．Their book, You Have Seen Their Faces, was published in 1937．It was a great success．

　　In 1938, some countries in Europe were close to war．Margaret Bourke-White and Caldwell went there to report on these events．The next year they got married．

　　During the World War Two, she became an official photographer with the United States Army．Her photographs were to be used jointly by the military(军队)and by Life magazine．She was the first woman to be permitted to work at the front during World War Two．

　　After the war, she went to India and took a famous photograph of Mohandas Gandhi called “Gandhi at His Spinning Wheel”．She was the last person to photograph Gandhi before he was murdered in 1948．

　　Often, Margaret Bourke-White was not satisfied with what she had done．She would look at her pictures and see something she had failed to do, or something she had not done right．Reaching perfection was not easy．Many things got in the way of her work．She said, “There is only one moment when a picture is there．And a moment later, it is gone forever．My memory is full of those pictures that were lost．”

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　　As a boy, Sanders was much influenced(影响)by books about the sea, but by the age of fifteen he had decided to become a doctor rather than a sailor．His father was a doctor．So he was often with the doctors and got along very well with them．When he was fourteen, he was already hanging around the hospital where he was supposed to be helping to clean the medicine bottles, but was trying to listen to the doctors’ conversations with patients in the next room．

　　During the war Sanders served in the army as a surgeon(外科医生)．“That was the happiest time of my life．I was dealing with real sufferers and on the whole making a success of my job．” In Rhodes he taught the country people simple facts about medicine．He saw himself as a life-saver．He had proved his skill to himself and had a firm belief that he could serve those who lived simply, and were dependent upon him．Thus, while in a position to tell them what to do he could feel he was serving them．

　　After the war, he married and set up a practice deep in the English countryside, working under an old doctor who hated the sight of blood．This gave the younger man plenty of opportunity(机会)to go on working as a life-saver．