Word: parents
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...have been finding planets around distant stars for more than a decade now, and the count is currently around 400. But the vast majority of these so-called exoplanets have been seen indirectly - by their gravitational effects or by the dimming caused when they pass in front of their parent stars. To really understand what a planet is like in detail, you have to see it directly, and that's incredibly hard to do with today's technology. (See pictures of the launch of NASA's Ares rocket...
Much of what Gibbs is talking about is bull, plain and simple. A parent can't be too careful. This is not the '50s, when you could leave your door open at night to help cool the house. Sad, but true nonetheless...
...other big events, the church hires off-duty police officers. There have been no car thefts and only one burglary in the church's new security era. Berean also uses a check-in system for its nursery and Sunday schools that once averted an attempted kidnapping by an estranged parent...
Raymond Traietti, a parent of a student attending Cambridge Public School, wrote in an e-mail to a school official that he was “frustrated” with the school assignment process...
...secretive. Only a few tour operators openly promote divorce tourism, which is also an oddly surreptitious affair. Typically, a bickering couple is given an exotic paid-for holiday - destinations for the $1,500 to $2,500 packages are the Maldives, Spain and the Czech Republic - by a concerned parent or friend. Before leaving, the couple meets with the tour operator and his staff to settle the itinerary, unaware that one of the staff members is a counselor - who subsequently shadows them on their trip, assisting with travel details while discreetly soothing ruffled feathers and offering marital advice when needed...