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...newfound freedom means in practice. "This has come quite suddenly. Right up to the last minute, we were not expecting a favorable outcome," she said in a telephone interview. "We know that people who were not otherwise allowed in [to visit him] have now been allowed in." In his brief remarks earlier on Friday, Khan said that he was planning to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Khan's wife added that her husband will still be restricted in terms of what he can say. "We will not be able to issue any statements. This is part of an agreement...
...have time for this scientist to talk to the guy.” Within a minute of this skeptical remark, Dr. Lightman determines where the suspect planted a bomb based solely on a microexpression that flits across the man’s face. A microexpression is a very brief show of genuine emotion on a person’s face. Notions such as the revealing quality of the microexpression and, more broadly, that humans have the capacity to act as virtual polygraph tests are rooted in the works of Paul Ekman—namely, his book “Telling...
...Other notables included John Krasinski’s (“The Office”) adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” entitled “Sin Nombre.” Krasinski directed and stars in the film, which follows an ex-gang member as he tries to escape Central America into the U.S. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
CORRECTION: The Feb. 6 article "Finding Fun in the Sun(dance)" incorrectly stated that the movies "Brief Interviews With Hideous Men" and "Sin Nombre" were one and the same. In fact, the two are distinct films, both shown at Sundance. The former was by director and screenwriter John Krasinski and the latter by director and screenwriter Cary Joji Fukunaga...
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the number of embryos transferred in each IVF cycle - in which sperm and egg are fertilized outside a woman's body, then transferred to her uterus - as well as the number of babies born as a result of that treatment cycle. (Read "A Brief History Of: Multiple Births...