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Marlon Brando? You know, Marlon was really a kind of fantasy person. You saw the person on the screen, and you projected onto him this sensitive, extraordinary beauty. Then, of course, very often when you meet someone who has grabbed you in a fantasy way, they're totally different. And I think Marlon sort of fits into that category...
That's the kind of statement that probably irks folks most at companies like No Lie MRI in California and Cephos in Massachusetts, both of which claim to offer some kind of lie-detection ability based on fMRI technology. No Lie MRI says it uses "unbiased methods for the detection of deception and other information stored in the brain," according to a statement on its website, although the site does not point to any specific scientific evidence to support the claims. (Read a story about how science solves crime...
...they don't grow poppy. The opium traffickers send in merchants in the fall to prepurchase the crops, so it gives the farmers a much needed cash injection that they use to get their families through the winter. We've done nothing in the international community to provide that kind of microcredit program for licit crops. To my mind, the important thing is to really take the focus off of the farmers and to put it on the traffickers...
...brass for your reporting. Officers have been warned to stay away from you, and your picture was even posted at police headquarters. Why do people risk so much to continue talking to you? They had my mug shot up at the security desk as a terrorism threat. It's kind of amusing, but at the same time kind of chilling. People talk because the department is so closed, and the mainstream media is so cowed that information they want public is not getting out. When people in the police department talk to a reporter, it's usually not for some...
...Great Britain, Australia and South Korea. Police now believe that the bombs may have been made on the 18th floor of the Marriott where they found - and defused - a device on Friday afternoon. "This was very well-planned and it would be really hard to protect against this kind of attack," says terrorism expert and security consultant Ken Conboy...