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...ethical and constitutional. For now, improved lie detection is likely to have broad public support. But what about when it reaches more surreptitiously into our lives? Biophysicist Britton Chance of the University of Pennsylvania has explored ways to use infrared light projected from a distance to penetrate the skull, looking for signs of stress similar to the ones fMRIs detect. Both that and remote periorbital thermography could be used undetectably in airport lines to spot high-stress passengers. Whether that stress is caused by the bomb you're concealing or the fact you're running late can't be known...
...crying that she accidentally suffocated the child. Meanwhile, members of the cell took Danny Haran and daughter Einat, 4, back to the shore where, realizing escape was impossible, Kuntar shot Danny in the back and drowned him, then battered Einat's head on beach rocks and smashed her skull with his rifle butt...
...pursued them, found the rubber boat they'd arrived in disabled by gunfire, one of the members shot Smadar's husband Danny in the back and drowned him in the sea to ensure he was dead. Next, he smashed little Einat's head on beach rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle...
...descents into darkness (and a final cauterizing blast of light), Kiss Me Deadly does its coarsely artful best to lure viewers into the lurid. What movies can't do that fiction can is chain you to the power of first-person narrative. Spillane puts you inside the thick, teeming skull of some modern-medieval creature - part Galahad, part dragon - and locks you there. You may want out, but you also want to stay, if only to see how similar Mike Hammer's atavistic codes and instincts are to yours, and how swiftly and deftly Spillane etches this urban underworld...
...Every time you mentally combine this movie with “Batman Begins,” à la Bruce Wayne paying a hooker, cheating on his fiancé, or stabbing a hobo and crushing his dog’s skull...