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...Burt and Loni How did the magic unravel? After five years of marriage, Burt Reynolds sued Loni Anderson for divorce, and the subsequent conflict was extremely snarly. The high point -- spectaclewise -- came when Reynolds, on TV, challenged his ex to truth-serum and lie-detector tests to prove that she cheated on him before he cheated...
...last Tuesday and transferred on a stretcher to a waiting helicopter, which took him to UCLA Medical Center in Westwood for further medical treatment. Lester Maddox, former Governor of Georgia, was undergoing tests out of fear that he might have received the virus that causes AIDS from contaminated blood serum prescribed by a controversial cancer clinic in the Bahamas. At a New York City television station, technicians announced that they would not work in the studio during a scheduled live interview with an AIDS patient. The interview was dropped. Federal scientists announced that screening tests being used at blood banks...
JUST AS YOU WERE GETTING ready to roll up your sleeve for your annual flu shot, the government announced last week that there would not be enough serum to go around...
Brown and his colleagues looked at blood-serum samples taken from HMO patients who were pregnant between 1959 and 1966. Then they zeroed in on those women whose children later developed schizophrenia. The researchers discovered that the presence of influenza antibodies--a sure sign of infection--during the first half of pregnancy correlated with a threefold greater risk of schizophrenia. There was no correlation with influenza during the second half of pregnancy...
...answer is yes--sometimes--but not without great risk. Over the years, the U.S. government has spent a lot of time searching for a "truth serum," experimenting with electroshock and LSD without success. "Drugs in particular held out the highest hope," says Mark Bowden, who wrote a landmark story about interrogation in the October 2003 Atlantic Monthly. "But the human mind is more complex than that. There's no magic bullet." Over time, most intelligence professionals have settled on tools in the torture lite category. The FBI's methods fall on the genteel end of the spectrum. "Convicted felons have...