Now their lives are changed and the bright inquiring faces who arrived on Darwen Street anxious to gulp in every bit of Lancashire life.

BBC: "And so this is Christmas and what have you done?"

King Jigme's goal, he says, is to increase the "gross national happiness, " and to that end he spends weeks traveling his Himalayan realm, in a Toyota Land Cruiser until the roads end and then on horseback or by foot, inquiring about what it would take to make people content.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

No airline prints calorie counts for customers or posts them on their Web sites, though some add up the calories on snack boxes so flight attendants can tell inquiring customers.

WSJ: Coffee, Tea, or Tapas? Critiquing Airline Fare

Why don't journalists spend as much time inquiring into the lives of the billion poorest people on Earth as they do gawking at the fortunes of the thousand richest?

FORBES: Wealth and Poverty

Oh yeah: I wouldn't be an inquiring reporter if I hadn't asked Schiller for his take on Windows 8 and Microsoft's strategy of building one operating system for both conventional PCs and tablets.

CNN: Apple's Schiller: 'Old technologies are holding us back'