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...evidence in the numbers; there is more in the numbing sensation that too many recent movies impose on both mind and body. Back in the 1930s, when a double feature could sprint through the sprockets in 2½ hours, Columbia Pictures Mogul Harry Cohn announced that "I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good." To which Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz cracked, "Imagine-the whole world wired to Harry Conn's ass!" Oddly enough, Cohn...
...might conceivably argue that the national security benefits of employing foolproof lie-detector devices outweigh such infringements on individual rights. But polygraph tests have failed to yield reliable data on dishonesty or criminal behavior, indeed, most U.S. courtrooms have refused to recognize the results of lie detector tests as evidence. Moreover, a recent Office of Technology Assessment study, based on an exhaustive review of available data, concluded that "no scientific evidence exists to establish the validity of polygraph testing" in discovering lies or national security leaks. Even in criminal investigations, the study found that the accuracy of polygraph tests fluctuated...
...only 40 pages, which according to Artin, is unusually concise for a through mathematical proof. As a result the mathematicians had to go back to Faltings' original sources to double check the professor's work. But after the meetings, all the mathematicians agreed that Faltings' work is "strikingly foolproof." David Kazhdan, Professor of Mathematics said last week...
...President Reagan, a foolproof system for shooting down nuclear weapons is nothing less than "a new hope for our children in the 21st century." Such an antiballistic missile (ABM) umbrella, he said, would make the U.S. safe from attack, the world free from the danger of cataclysmic conflict between the superpowers, and the doctrine of deterrence more credible-and far more humane-than the traditional reliance on the threat of massive retaliation...
...cheaters rarely worry about getting caught. Some figure the odds are overwhelmingly with them. Others think they have a foolproof scheme. And still others delude themselves into thinking they are doing nothing wrong. "When someone gets arrested," says Sheldon Elsen, a prominent New York tax attorney, "it can be an almost unbelievable shock. I've seen people break down completely." Carr Ferguson, a partner in the Wall Street law firm of Davis, Polk and Wardwell, has seen that too. "People only think