There's a reason it's so easy to lie to small kids ("Santa really, truly did bring those presents") and that's because they're functional illiterates when it comes to reading inflection and facial expressions.

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They lie in a small depression referred to as Yellowknife Bay, about half a kilometre from the robot's point of touchdown last year.

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Not going to lie: We wrote it down in small letters.

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And that answer does not lie in studying historical financials, or pining over small changes period to period in any line item.

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Numerous, small investments may just meet the needs of social entrepreneurs who lie between a nonprofit organization and a larger, for-profit that will have returns attractive enough for venture capitalists.

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But researchers think its origins lie further down the food chain - in plants, small mammals or insects.

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Among the dunes, Robert has built his own small memorial, and segments of the ship's hull still lie partly buried in the sand, like an excavated dinosaur skeleton.

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However, several experts believe that the greatest risks lie in middle-sized firms, which are too small to have all the fancy software, but too big to know all their customers personally.

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The lie which those subjects are asked to tell is a small one: they have to persuade Dr Langleben, or one of his assistants, that they are holding a particular playing card when often they are actually holding a different one.

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Most likely, if you have offices that lie in the path of Hurricane Sandy, you are experiencing some sort of business disruption, large or small.

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