 Nick gives vivid accounts of lessons learned from traveling into major conflict zones and into nearly every corner of this planet. His opinion column appears twice a week in The New York Times. Nick, we're talking about, like, extreme travel skills that you've picked up as a foreign correspondent, getting the best seat, being an optimist, meeting people. In your work, you meet people in dangerous situations, and I was fascinated by your skill at taking what seems to be something that could really be deadly,