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...abnormality. Brain-imaging skeptics would argue that all Mondraty and Sachdev have observed is an extreme example of what happens in the brain when we focus on something that makes us feel anxious and inadequate, or when dread causes us to mistake the harmless for the fearsome - the garden hose for a snake...
...trial to address the allegations, and her reps won't comment on who leaked them, but their disclosure means she'll have less bargaining power come settlement time. Coincidentally, since Sir Paul just applied to trademark his name for use on scads of products from vegetarian food to panty hose, he might want to consider McCartney? gag orders...
...adapt to each others' way of thinking. "We spent the first month just trying to agree on vocabulary," says Torres. "Were we 'cooking in a vacuum' or 'vacuum cooking'?" Within months, however, they had completed the first prototype, an ungainly contraption whose three pieces were joined by long hoses and cables. "We called it our garage model," says Martínez, "because it looked like something a mechanic would put together." So dubious was the machine's appearance that, when the team was stopped for a road inspection on its way to present the Gastrovac at a conference...
...adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within a few months, he had put a loop in a garden hose and hanged himself. Only death ended his nightmares...
...haunt the men who saw or committed them. The second half is about the challenges these soldiers faced when they returned home, many of them with damaged bodies, most of them forced to relive their nightmares every night. One young man came back and hanged himself with a garden hose; another, fearful of demons attacking him, sleeps with a gun under...