Word: explainers
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ROMER: Part of my effort is trying to explain to my family that I'm not certifiably crazy. People say, "Why are you doing this?" The simple answer is: 712,000 students...
...theory to explain the Hunley's sinking is that the torpedo was detonated prematurely, popping rivets. "Rivet technology wasn't very well developed in the 19th century," says team director Robert Neyland, the U.S. Navy's chief underwater archaeologist. It may have been hit by Union fire. Or maybe it got stuck on the bottom and the crew opened the sea cocks in a suicide pact. Even if the mystery is never solved, however, the multimillion-dollar recovery will be deemed worthwhile. "This was the first successful submarine in warfare," says Neyland, "and it was the prototype for subs that...
...while opposition to Richardson has been rumbling for a while, this breach may well be the straw that breaks the camel's back. How does one explain, for example, the three-week delay between the initial discovery that hard drives containing top-secret information had been taken from the Chris Carter-esque "X Division" of the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory and any report to Washington...
...lone gunman. For many of us, it was an emotional rite of passage. We clutched a grownup's hand in the darkened theater. But imagine watching Bambi or Beauty and the Beast on video, not as a seven-year-old but at four, and without a parent present to explain the law of the cartoon jungle. Kids ages two to five spend an average of 1 1/2 hours watching videos each day, yet children up to age five need adult help to process what they are seeing. Children use stories to explore the feelings they can't yet express. Fairy...
...could concoct some elaborate excuse to explain why, around 2 p.m. last Thursday, I was dropping virtual water balloons on taxis, bicyclists and innocent pedestrians traversing my computer screen. Or why I spent 10 minutes answering a detailed online questionnaire only to discover that (according to whoever wrote it) I have the personality of a pug dog. But I won't insult your intelligence. The truth is, I was goofing...