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...Israeli petition expresses outrage over “indications that the ‘fog of war’ could be exploited by the Israeli government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people, up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing...
Researchers seeking to answer those questions come up against a confounding mess of variables--everything from changing hormone levels to a patient's willingness to admit that a problem exists. But last summer a researcher at Stanford University tried to wave away some of the fog. Turhan Canli showed nearly 100 photographs--some of emotionally neutral objects like a fire hydrant, others of emotionally unsettling things like a severed hand--to 12 men and 12 women. Three weeks later he showed the subjects the same images and found that the women were 15% more likely to have accurately remembered...
...didn't do this last time. Perhaps he was convinced by hints that Washington might retaliate with nuclear weapons. Or his engineers might have been unable to perfect the sophisticated fuse needed to spread a cloud of sarin or VX gas half a mile wide, a lethal fog capable of killing thousands of people in its path. Such devices--used to trigger car air bags--are now common. --With reporting by Azadeh Moaveni/Cairo and Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem
...SOUND SOOTHER 20 RELAXATION MACHINE For anyone kept awake by snoring, this box offers 20 more pleasant soundscapes. If you miss the familiar drone, try the "fog horn" setting. www.sharperimage.com...
...Prince Rupert, B.C., (about $600 round trip from Atlanta), plus about $3,950 for everything else involved in three days of fishing. Logistics include a two-hour flight from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, followed by a 40-minute hop by floatplane to the fishing lodge. The weather (especially fog) is unpredictable along the coast, so be prepared for delays...