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ASSUMPTION Putting on a thin layer of sunscreen protects skin from the sun but allows...
ALTERNATIVE REALITY To combat the greased-chicken effect of smearing on so much sunscreen, researchers suggest covering the body with a thin layer of sunblock first, then again half an hour later. Be warned: the old rules about reapplying after swimming still hold. Plus, tans are bad for your skin, period...
...only hours after the televised congressional testimony of FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis agent who ripped the bureau's pre-9/11 bunglings in a letter to director Robert Mueller last month. A no-nonsense Midwesterner with a grim, credible tale of field agents being smothered by layer after layer of self-protecting bureaucrats, she told her story Thursday on Capitol Hill, where multiple inquiries into last summer's intelligence failures opened to the rumble of an early-season thunderstorm...
...HIGH ROAD Only after the fear response is activated does the conscious mind kick into gear. Some sensory information, rather than traveling directly to the amygdala, takes a more circuitous route, stopping first at the thalamus--the processing hub for sensory cues--and then the cortex--the outer layer of brain cells. The cortex analyzes the raw data streaming in through the senses and decides whether they require a fear response. If they do, the cortex signals the amygdala, and the body stays on alert...
...pitch, and it's easy enough to see the elbows still at work: intimidating journalists, talking down his team's chances, pepping up in-form players by dropping them from the team - still buying room for maneuver and maintaining control. At Manchester United, Ferguson has found a layer of charm and some outside interests to relax into, but Crick's account of his early stewardship of lowlier Scottish teams is a running riot of flying teacups, brawls and spats over petty cash. Such revelations as there are in The Boss are more storms in teacups. Ferguson's tendency to steer...