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...vice versa. Whereas a majority of Democrats in the TIME poll said they believe Hillary stayed with Bill after the Monica Lewinsky scandal because of Hillary's commitment to the marriage, 72% of Republicans said she did it to advance her political career. Nothing makes her strategists more nervous than the occasional scandal-sheet report that Bill had been spotted out on the town. The possibility of another scandal is "the subject nobody wants to touch," says one. "It could be nothing, or it could be the biggest issue. People gave her a break on Monica, but if there...
...honest anxiety that can produce false positives on a polygraph can also increase blood flow in the periorbital region. Facial analysis is problematic, since there's no way to standardize the skills of human analysts, and nobody can say for certain if cooler liars give up fewer clues than nervous ones. "It's not as simple as a Pinocchio phenomenon," says Frank...
...with regard to this research, but imposing limits could impede a medical breakthrough. As a rare-disease patient and taxpayer, I hope that in a country with as much knowledge, expertise and resources as the U.S., that breakthrough will occur in my lifetime. TRACY E. LATIMER VICE PRESIDENT, CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULITIS FOUNDATION Las Vegas...
...then, it was too late for her to back out. Flight policy mandated that once a passenger checked her bags, she must board the flight. Without any cell phone or way to contact family members, Biskup got on the plane with her friend, both of them a bit nervous. "We were thinking, 'Is this a terrorist threat against the U.S. or the U.K.?" Biskup recalled. "How many flights were there between the U.S. and U.K.? Is there a chance that something could have slipped by, even with the extra security...
...hard to understand the vogue for spiritualism that developed in the late 19th century. With religion under serious challenge from science, the afterlife--which religion affirmed and science scoffed at--became a subject of nervous fascination. Respectable people held parlor séances. Celebrity spiritualists like D.D. Home even made house calls. In 1869 three witnesses in a London residence reported that Home levitated, floated out a window and drifted back in through the window of another room...