Word: detective
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...persist. It may be the largest democracy, but the lack of political will and the corruption and conservatism curb the country's immense potential. I was recently in Australia, where I met an enthusiastic band of young Indians whose nationalism was intense. Yet with all their enthusiasm, you could detect the frustrations of lagging behind because of lack of progress in social reform. Sloganeering and rhetoric are just that. I hope that young Indians find the strength to correct the country's deficiencies and make it truly great. Subhash Suthar, SITTINGBOURNE, ENGLAND...
WHIZ KIDS EVER SINCE Adolescent heroes continue to spy, detect and decipher with methods both expected (a basic set of binoculars in the '96 movie Harriet the Spy) and unearthly (an invisible ghost that manipulates text in the '90s TV series Ghostwriter...
...Because intercepting potentially volatile students is key, the House system can provide an important network to detect warning signs...
Summer has come early to London this year. The city's parks are parched, its riverside pubs and cafés packed. Londoners are enjoying the weather, but some detect in its unusual generosity the hidden curse of global warming. A similar pessimism greeted the life sentences handed out on the last day of April in a sticky courtroom to five British-raised terrorists for their involvement in a conspiracy to commit mass murder. The branch of the U.K.'s security service known as MI5 foiled the plot before any blood was spilled, but its success cloaks a tragic failure...
...country: laying bricks, painting Easter bunnies, answering trivia questions about Britney. What exactly isn't the Labor leader doing out there? Now that broad directions are being sketched out, where does Rudd plan to take the country if he wins the election? Some see shades of Bill Clinton, others detect an echo of British New Labour's Third Way. At a Canberra truck depot last month, a reporter asked Rudd: "Are you doing a Tony Blair?" He responded: "I'm doing a Kevin. And let me tell you, that means putting our best step forward for the economy...