31.   Also an alumna of the Curry company, Nichol draws inspiration from dance performances and encourages the skaters with whom she works to take dance classes and see performances.

32.   Although Bouchakian took business classes in college, he said he learned more from actual practice.

33.   Although he took conducting classes at the Royal Academy, Spigelman describes himself as a self-taught conductor.

34.   Although skeptical at first, he took the classes and was pleased with the results.

35.   Although they are often busy raising children, some women make a point of updating their skills, taking classes and networking with peers.

36.   Always a hustler, she was taking business classes at San Francisco State University while running her own enterprises.

37.   Ambitious parents can even take classes at community colleges, which offer affordable instruction in the basics of computers.

38.   An aspiring actress, she takes theater classes at the Vila Olimpica.

39.   An economist by training who holds an M.B.A. from Indiana University, he never took a class in computers.

40.   And in Brooklyn, at the Erasmus Hall High School for Humanities and the Performing Arts, all ninth graders take a class with an Outward Bound coordinator.