Word: distinguish
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...enough being a phobic adult, going through life fearing metaphorical monsters under metaphorical beds. But suppose you were having the same fears in childhood, a stage of life when monsters are somehow more than metaphors and the bed they're hiding under is your very own. How can parents distinguish a passing childhood fear from a full-blown phobia? And what can they do to help? The good news for most parents - not to mention their kids - is that the majority of childhood terrors are fleeting. In a big, forbidding world that most children can't begin to make sense...
When Franko Simatovic was first dispatched from his native Belgrade to Croatia in 1991, there was little to distinguish him from other young Yugoslav intelligence officers drafted into the early days of Serbia's war effort. Slobodan Milosevic was whipping up Serbian nationalism, and the rest of the world was only dimly aware of the simmering ethnic mix that was about to explode in Yugoslavia. Tall, with fair hair, fluent in English and several other languages, "Frenki" was noted for his calm, professorial manner--and a fondness for Raybans. His main accomplishment was having successfully spied on U.S. diplomats...
...many of the frames you read two words in the place of one. Only at one end of the strip do the words become clear: there's "Technical Staff," under that "E.B." someone, maybe "Gibson," then "Marcel Delgado," "Fred Reese," "Orville Goldener" maybe, and a last name impossible to distinguish...
...telephony program known as Dialpad have been frustrated by sluggish or unusable connections. The problem lies with the HASCS filtering software. It recognizes and gives precedence to certain types of traffic--types normally generated by e-mail programs or web browsers--but places restrictions on other traffic, failing to distinguish between a student's use of Dialpad and an outside Napster request for a song stored on a student's computer...
...goes on to become somewhat personal: "The way in which a dog presents his anus and genitals for inspection indicates the hierarchical position that he aspires to, and other dogs who sniff his genitals are apprised of his sexual condition. From his urine they can undoubtedly distinguish age, build, state of sexual activity and general health, even hours after he's passed...