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...real world, where no single lie is identical to the next and most are too elaborately constructed to pin down on a brain scan. Although fMRI allows us to "track the thought process in real time - and that's a huge advance over the polygraph," says Ruben Gur at the University of Pennsylvania, people should not have the "naive view that whenever someone lies, there will be the same [kind of] response that will then be picked up by the fMRI...
...real-world lie detector would have to be "reliable for a specific answer for a specific question from a specific person." And that is something that fMRI may never achieve, says Gur...
...lead State Department attorney on detainee issues, the answers he got from foreign capitals about the 17 Chinese Muslims in Guantánamo was almost always the same. Dignitaries told Padmanabhan again and again that they could not take the men, who belong to China's Uighur (pronounced WEE-gur) ethnic minority. There is an active Uighur separatist movement in China, and elements of it have been accused of terrorist acts in the People's Republic. The U.S. has not admitted any freed Guantánamo prisoners onto its soil, Padmanabhan was reminded by officials from countries around the world...
...Writing Wrong? I can't help wondering whose handwriting that is under the picture of Alec Baldwin [Oct. 6]. Not his, for sure; he was only born in 1957. Shirley Gur Shpinoza, RAANANA, ISRAEL...
...author sketches characters with deft, quick brushstrokes. Her chief detective is a former scholar who spots similarities between medieval guilds and the rigidly hierarchical institute. Throughout, Gur draws intriguing parallels between psychoanalysis and police detection. They are both lonely jobs, she writes, demanding time, patience and a sharp ear for the things that are not said...