In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Use a large bowl so the dry ingredients don't spill over the side. Mix the flour and cornmeal thoroughly with a whisk. Sardines will give your bait a strong smell that will attract catfish. You can cut up the sardines right in the tin they came in. Just peel back the lid on the tin and use the fork to break up the individual fish. Use the whisk to mash the sardines into the flour and cornmeal mixture so they blend more easily. You’ll know you’re finished when the dry mixture has absorbed all of the juices from the sardines. Anise extract is a strong-smelling extract that you can find with the spices at your local grocery store. After you pour in the anise extract, stir the mixture thoroughly with the whisk. Be careful not to add too much water at once or your dough will be too thin. Pour a little water in at a time, stir, and then check the consistency of the dough. Boiling the balls of dough will make them harder so they’re easier to fish with. After 3 minutes, carefully take the dough balls out of the boiling water with tongs or a slotted spoon. Place them on a paper towel to dry and cool off. Once they've cooled off, place the dough balls in a sealable plastic bag or container and keep them in the fridge. When you’re ready to use your dough, all you need to do is hook a ball on a fish hook and toss it in the water. The longer your catfish dough sits in storage, the smellier and more attractive to catfish it will become. However, you eventually may need to throw away your dough if it becomes dry and crumbly.
Summary: Combine 1 cup (240 mL) of flour and 1 cup (240 mL) of cornmeal in a bowl. Open a tin of sardines and use a fork to cut them into small pieces. Dump the sardines in the dry mixture and whisk everything thoroughly. Pour 1 fluid ounce (30 mL) of anise extract into the mixture. Add water to the mixture slowly until it’s the consistency of playdough. Make the dough into golf-ball-size balls and boil them for 3 minutes. Store your catfish dough in the fridge until you’re ready to use it.

Your voice is key in this field. You should concentrate on projection, enunciation, and inflection. All of these things will help you deliver your “script” in a compelling nature. Be authoritative in your speech. This will give you credibility with your audience. Read newspapers and magazines aloud. Listen to the best journalists in the field when they speak and try to emulate them. You'll have to speak loudly and slowly enough for people to understand you, but quickly enough to cover everything you have to say in a given amount of time. This doesn't mean that you have to look like a movie star or a Victoria's Secret model. You don't even have to be classically handsome or beautiful. You do, however, have to look appealing on camera, and have that special quality that makes people want to watch you doing whatever you do. This is a mixture of charisma, confidence, and that special something that will make people respond to you even if you're covering a story about a local bake sale. Unfortunately, it can go the other way -- you may be incredibly attractive but may come off as lackluster on camera. Don't think that your looks are a golden ticket to the profession. If you want to succeed in the world of TV reporting or news anchoring, then you have to be able to talk to anyone about almost anything. If you're reporting, you may have to talk to people live, on site, and on camera, even if they aren't comfortable, and your job will be to make them comfortable. If you're an anchor, then you'll have to introduce people to your audience and talk to them in the studio, and use the same skills to make them open up and feel at ease. You may not realize that many reporters and news anchors have to write and investigate their own stories, but this may actually be a large component of your job. If this is the case, then you'll need to be able to talk to a variety of people who can give you access to the information you want. Tough one, eh? If you want to be an honest TV reporter or news anchor, then you'll have to learn to put your prejudices aside. Even if you lean a certain way politically or feel biased against certain professions, people, or regions, you'll have to do your reporting as objectively as possible. You won't be able to let the people you interview see through to your personal beliefs, or you won't be giving people the honest, unbiased news that they really want. If you're prejudiced against certain people, they will be much less likely to open up to you. Though being an articulate speaker is crucial, being a strong writer isn't far behind. Even if you're just reading what you have to say and improvising as you go along, or if you have to write your own stories, writing skills will get you far in the field. Writing skills will also help you communicate with others if you have to develop your own stories, and your writing should make you sound as professional as possible. If you're the kind of person who needs a nap after working for two hours, then the life of a TV reporter or news anchor is not for you. You may have to work 12 hour shifts, get up at 2 a.m., or spend hours just standing in the same spot during unusually cold or hot conditions waiting for a story to break. And you have to have the ability to work a 10 hour shift, only to be told that a major story just broke and to work 5 more hours until you take care of business. You will have to be flexible. This is not a job for people who want to work 9-5 and then go home and kick their feet up. Think you can do it?
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One-sentence summary -- Be an articulate speaker. Look good on camera. Have killer people skills. Be free from bias. Have stellar writing skills. Have ridiculous stamina.

Problem: Article: If you need to call your boss to take off work, you need to sound the part to avoid suspicion.  Speak slightly slower. Pause occasionally for a second in the middle of your sentences. Don't be too quick to answer. Remember, you are sick and sluggish. Try to breathe through your mouth to sound like you have a stuffed up nose. Your boss might not care how you feel, but if you are going to get the rest of your coworkers sick that's another matter. Mention that you think you caught your illness from someone else. Explain that you are coughing or sneezing and your nose is running all over the place. Don't do this directly into the phone—you don't do that in real life, do you? Hold the phone a reasonable distance away from you and cough or sneeze loudly. Then apologize and continue the conversation. Pour one or two large glasses of water and make your call while sitting by the toilet. If you really need to sound sick, stop in the middle of talking to make a retching and gurgling noise and pour the glass of water. That should simulate the sounds of throwing up. One of the quickest ways to arouse suspicion is to ham it up. If you can just ask to take a sick day without giving too many details, you are less likely to get caught in your web of lies.
Summary:
Make your voice sound different. Play up how contagious you are. Cough or sneeze. Fake the sounds of vomit. Don't overdo it.