Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ones who live among ghosts conduct their own private investigations. "My friends think I'm crazy," says a well-to-do Cambodian who returned here from Canada. "People tell me, 'Why do you want to look at these things? It's easier to forget.' But I want to understand why it happened"--he means the self-extermination of his country--"so it will never happen again." When Pol Pot died, Keo Lundi, from the Tuol Sleng center, says, "I spent my own money to go to his province, to talk to his brother and sister. I wanted to know what...
When it comes to emotional development, moreover, it's been demonstrated again and again that children whose parents rarely talk to them or pick them up or show them affection tend to be emotionally damaged for life. Do scientists understand the physical basis for such effects? No. Does that mean they aren't real...
...reason that many protestors contest primate research so strongly, Gibbons said, is that they do not understand that researchers only use primates when absolutely necessary...
...Personal contact is a very important part of the campaign," said Marjorie Decker, a candidate for City Council. "Seniors understand the importance of voting, and they vote...
...best communicators on earth," said April Yvonne Garrett, a former student. "As a student, I always felt like my brain was being fed the finest information in the universe. I was always amazed that he could communicate the most difficult concepts so that the average person could understand them and apply them," she said...