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...psychologist John Gabrieli went further, showing adult subjects not just pictures of faces but also photos of inherently disturbing scenes such as automobile accidents. The shy subjects, he found, handled the car wrecks the same way as the rest of the folks in the group; the difference, once again, lay in how they responded to the faces. "It's not that they were more fearful in general," says Gabrieli...
...steam during a practice test when he had eaten beef jerky, Walker fared better on the granola bars and bananas that Johnson recommended. "He was surprised he wasn't burned out," says Evans, who was impressed by her son's subsequent attention to nutritional prep. "He would lay out the food the night before so that he had everything ready. This is preparing for a test in a different way. I wish I would have known about it when my kids were younger...
...scheduled to be sentenced in June, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. That's a bad omen for four other prominent execs facing criminal charges: Richard Scrushy, the former chief of HealthSouth being tried for fraud in Alabama; the top two Enron guys, Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, scheduled for trials next year; and Dennis Kozlowski, accused of looting Tyco and being retried following a mistrial last year...
...approximately 10 p. m., of the child's disappearance. Nurse, wife and husband rushed to the nursery. What they saw may be reconstructed as follows: two shuttered windows; a third, facing east, was not shuttered because one shutter was warped and would not close; mud, apparently from shoes, lay on the floor and on the shutterless windowsill below which, contrary to previous report, there was no piece of furniture; an empty crib standing in its position toward the centre of the room. The parents and nurse may have discovered the original ransom note, but it was not opened until...
...laying hens are arguably the most mistreated animals in modern agribusiness. In the United States, 300 million hens—nearly one for every American—are intensively confined in “battery cages,” which are filing cabinet-sized, barren metal cages so small the birds cannot even spread their wings, let alone engage in other natural behaviors such as nesting, foraging, perching, or even walking. Millions of male chicks are killed annually because they are unable to lay eggs and are different breeds from chickens raised for meat. Right after birth, they are gassed...