Word: discoverable
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The few beaches that are even halfway decent are owned by big hotels and reserved for their guests. We snuck onto one only to discover that it was actually an artificial beach, made of imported sand.
Child-custody disputes are often the trigger for youngsters' unwitting lies. Suspicions can cause parents to launch what legal scholar Douglas Besharov of Washington's American Enterprise Institute calls "the atomic bomb of child- custody fights, the charge of sex abuse." In these stressful situations, children quickly discover what adults...
Misleading questions by adults can cause children not just to lie but also to believe their falsehoods. Besharov cites the case of a three-year-old who told a social worker a story about a piece of candy being dropped into her underpants. After interviews by various child-protection workers...
Letters are prized because they punctuate the waiting. They move time forward, even in painful ways, as fathers and mothers discover, from one letter to the next, that their children are growing up in their absence. Every word from home inflames the desire to get the fighting started, and finished...
IF YOU ARE a student and have never been inside The Club, go check it out. Not only will you discover some of the most elegant and cleanest spaces at Harvard, but you will also make the faculty acutely uncomfortable.