Word: revealing
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...signposted. Locating it will tax your orienteering skills to their limit - unless, on your quest through the galleries, you happen to glimpse the attendant Abu Mustapha, which we were lucky enough to do. He will lead you down obscure corridors to an unlabeled door and push it open to reveal a 1,750-year-old Jewish house of worship, painstakingly transported, in its entirety, from its original home on the Euphrates...
...stress hormones such as corticosterone, which enable us to react quickly to danger. These emotional warning flares can be lifesavers if, say, you encounter a snake, but the sudden waves of emotion make it hard to stay calm in the face of a whipsawing market. Zweig says brain scans reveal that merely being told that you're losing money is enough to make your amygdala more active...
...closet size, dresser size, desk size, and every other Harvard-issued dorm accessory. “One closet is so small, we can’t fit hangers in it the right way,” said Mariah A. Bush ’10, opening a door to reveal a sad little closet in which coats were hanging with their lapels facing the opening. And Bush wasn’t even blessed with Dunster House’s newest space-saving technique: beds with extra high legs accommodating two pint-sized dressers that fit into the space below. Jonathan...
...Republican front runner, Rudy Giuliani, is another tough guy who has seized the opportunity to reveal his easily bruised soft side. He is running TV commercials saying Hillary Clinton "stood by silently" while MoveOn.org ran its despicable ad. Another way of saying this would be that she had nothing to do with the ad. But Rudy accuses her of "joining with" MoveOn.org and "attacking" General Petraeus, although the only evidence he can muster for this accusation is a clip from Clinton telling the general at a hearing that his reports of progress in the war "really require the willing suspension...
...much less a language—in five weeks. It took me over two months to fully grasp the public transportation system in Buenos Aires. Even after five months, I still found myself susceptible to the city’s secrets and idiosyncrasies—secrets that do not reveal themselves in the intensive language classes and all-day curriculum of Harvard Summer School programs. The notion that one can experience a city and a culture in five whirlwind weeks of language classes and “cultural” outings is a prototypical Harvard mentality, akin to us writing...