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...psychotics to normal job seekers to Soviet cosmonauts, have puzzled their way through its seemingly endless array of odd and eerie statements (samples: "Much of the time my head seems to hurt all over"; "My soul sometimes leaves my body"; "In walking, I am very careful to step over sidewalk cracks"). Now, at age 44, the archetypal test is getting a face-lift. "This revision is long overdue," says Kent State Psychologist John Graham, one of four professors who have been working on the test for four years. "We psychologists have been less than responsible in letting...
Wednesday is a busy day for the Tati discount store on the Rue de Rennes in Paris. School is out that afternoon, and mothers, particularly those with modest incomes, flock to Tati with their children in search of bargains. Thus the sidewalk in front of the store was bustling last week at 5:28 p.m., when two black-mustachioed men in a black BMW drove past. As the car slowed down, the man on the passenger side got out and dropped a package into a trash can near the front door. He quickly hopped back into the car and rode...
Windows were blown out at several businesses. The sidewalk in front of the Tati store was covered with glass, debris and bleeding victims, many crying out for help. Police cleared a plaza, the Place du 18 Juin, and used it as a helicopter landing pad to evacuate those with the gravest injuries...
...most seriously wounded were treated on the sidewalk in front of Tati," said one witness. "I saw people dying...
Suddenly one of the Westerners mastered his fright and whispered, "Stop, let him pass." The four came to a halt in the middle of the sidewalk. The KGB man, clearly unprepared for the maneuver, walked past them. The hound had become the hare. "Now let's catch up and embarrass him," said the correspondent. The reporters began jogging toward the KGB agent, who looked around, startled, and set off at a dead run. Pedestrians turned to stare at the sight: middle-aged men dressed in suits and overcoats pounding down a snowy sidewalk like bankers after...