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Of all the tall tales you might hear while holidaying in Australia-a land whose residents famously love to regale visitors with made-up stories-perhaps the tallest of all will be the one you hear in Murchison Station House, a 200,000-hectare sheep farm in the Western Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Kingdom for a Sheep | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

The best poker players say tics and flutters in an opponent's face--the so-called poker tells--can telegraph when a player is bluffing. Scientists agree that the face tells tales we may wish it didn't. San Francisco psychologist Paul Ekman has codified 46 facial movements into more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Spot a Liar | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

So it's possible that Mark Karr is delusional or that he is - more incomprehensibly - simply lying. At least one former acquaintance of Karr's considers this a distinct possibility. Janice Myhan, a professor of education at the University of North Alabama, says Karr was prone to telling outlandish lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Neat Endings for the JonBenet Case | 8/18/2006 | See Source »

The neighbors' tales had a depressingly familiar ring. One arrested man was "as good as gold, a normal lad"; another was a "nice guy" who liked to play soccer in the local park; a third, said someone who lived nearby, was "a very caring boy" who, on learning that her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Such Lovely Lads | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

The path that radical British Muslims take between their suburban homes and Pakistan is by now as depressingly familiar as tales of those radicals' good nature. But it is of vital importance to understanding why Britain has become a key location for international terrorist activity. There are 745,000 people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Such Lovely Lads | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

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