<P> Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on . I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own? </P> <P> Cooper was educated at the Dalton School, a private co-educational university preparatory day school in New York City . At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early, Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip". He contracted malaria on the trip and was hospitalized in Kenya . Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in ." Cooper went on to attend Yale University, where he resided in Trumbull College, and was inducted into the Manuscript Society, majoring in political science and graduating with a B.A. in 1989 . </P> <P> During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency . Although he has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school, having been a self - proclaimed "news junkie since (he) was in utero ." After his first correspondence work in the early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in Vietnam for a year, during which time he studied the Vietnamese language at Vietnam National University, Hanoi . </P> <P> After Cooper graduated from Yale University, he tried to gain entry - level employment with ABC answering telephones, but was unsuccessful . Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on - air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass . At the time, Cooper was working as a fact checker for the small news agency Channel One, which produces a youth - oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States . Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government . He was ultimately able to sell his home - made news segments to Channel One . </P>

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