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...companies like No Lie MRI continue to advertise that they can detect lies with "90% accuracy" and charge close to $5,000 for their services. "There are 30 different peer-reviewed studies out there that prove that we can detect lies with fMRI," says Joel Huizenga, the CEO of No Lie MRI, who declined to provide citations for those studies. (Neither of the two scientists on the company's scientific board responded to requests for comment for this article.) Huizenga says he has worked with cases involving "arson, murder and incest" but did not give further details...
ARUSHA, Tanzania — As I prepared to live in rural Tanzania for eight weeks, I knew not to have particularly high expectations about the food I would encounter there. Two weeks of orientation seemed to prove me right—we were served the same beef stew, which had more bones in it than actual meat, every single night. Sometimes we hard-working volunteers had to subsist on only makande for lunch, a stew of maize and beans. Needless to say, I was less than satisfied...
...fourth-grade math. As in many Northern and Midwestern states, Wisconsin's white students generally perform well, providing a stark contrast to its underperforming minorities. Conversely, the small achievement gap in places like West Virginia (with a racial divide of just 13 points in fourth-grade reading) can prove a mixed blessing, as it often indicates that white students are missing the mark as well...
...indeed that's what hurt Brüno, the movie could prove to be a one-day wonder...
...disturbing as those incidents are, the more widespread concern about the newfangled hospitals is money. Although there is not ample hard data yet available to prove that specialty hospitals take a large bite out of community hospitals' bottom lines, a quick scan of the list of the common procedures performed at the highly focused institutions suggests just that. Orthopedic and cardiac care bring in some of the highest margin reimbursements from insurers, money community hospitals use to cover the cost of low-margin or money-losing services like burn units, neonatal care and treating the uninsured. When healthier, fully insured...