1.   Customs officials discovered several illegal immigrants stowed away at the front of the ship.

2.   On lottery day, Boston Marathon officials discovered they had hit the jackpot.

3.   The state alcohol and drug abuse agency was put into conservatorship last year after state officials discovered that money had been misspent.

4.   But when they tried to leave Nepal, officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas, bought in good faith.

5.   And in December, US Airways concourses were closed after Federal Aviation Administration officials discovered that some security employees were improperly trained.

6.   Another was released from active duty after military officials discovered problems with the records documenting some of his training.

7.   As school officials have discovered, conditions at private preschools vary widely.

8.   As the work was winding down, mortified U.S. officials discovered the entire structure had been laced with microscopic listening devices -- thousands of them.

9.   Before that incident, officials discovered an eavesdropping device in a State Department conference room and expelled a Russian diplomat from the country.

10.   Beleaguered Smithsonian officials discovered that their attempt to examine more fully the agonizing ambiguities of one such fateful instance was politically incorrect.