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Consider this scenario: a shopkeeper mistakenly returns an extra $10 in change to a customer. In one outcome, the customer returns the money promptly, without pause. In another, he hesitates for just a second, thinks about pocketing the 10 bucks, then decides to give it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...Huizenga, the CEO of No Lie MRI, who declined to provide citations for those studies. (Neither of the two scientists on the company's scientific board responded to requests for comment for this article.) Huizenga says he has worked with cases involving "arson, murder and incest" but did not give further details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...unlikely that No Lie MRI will give up anytime soon - the company claims that the potential market for its technology could exceed $3.6 billion. While that figure seems exaggerated given legal safeguards against using polygraphs, Greely estimates that if fMRI lie detection became admissible in court, the industry could easily be worth more than a billion dollars per year. (See pictures from a wildlife forensics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The fMRI Brain Scan: A Better Lie Detector? | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...your story, Pyongyang's only consistency has been its unpredictability. So America should attack it with a larger level of unpredictability. Lift all sanctions. Let the giant corporate world in. The only life that the larger population of North Korea knows is the life of not having much. Give them a life of choices - export the good life into North Korea. Show them what life could be like with someone else in the capital. Do this for a year or so, then push your agendas. And if Pyongyang again starts to drag its feet, take it all away. This will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

...year-old Han man originally from China's central Henan province said he retreated to his second-floor apartment as a mob of about 50 Uighur youths attacked a Chinese car dealership nearby. "We spent more than a day inside our house," said the retired farmer, who declined to give his name. "We were too terrified to come out." As the journalists toured the burned-out car dealership, a large group of Uighur women assembled. They demanded the return of their arrested husbands, sons and brothers. "Grandparents, children, they've all been arrested," said one Uighur woman. "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's War in the West | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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