Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although his work has various practical applications, such as providing a better understanding of how earthquakes or heart attacks begin, McMullen says that the purpose of his research does not lie in its applications...
...remember every word of an annoying commercial but not where we last saw the television remote? The answer may lie in a study using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to capture what happens in the brain the instant a memory is formed...
...anyone, even a president, lies about something that is nobody's business, because it is nobody's business, then the lie is nobody's business as well. HAGEN RUDOLPH Dahlenburg, Germany...
...cancer in her other breast. She must decide whether to have her breasts removed, or to pursue various other pre-emptive treatments. But that is just the beginning. Once a patient knows about her genetic predisposition to cancer, she must decide whether or not she is going to lie on the myriad forms and applications that ask her to divulge such conditions: life- and medical-insurance policies, job applications...
...effectively shatter her world too. If the niece also tests positive, to whom should she divulge this? Her boyfriend; her fiance? Should the young woman have a mastectomy? Should she have children, when the chances of her daughters' having it are 50%? The niece too will be tempted to lie on official forms. Clark, Iglehart, Kristen and her husband talk about all this...