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Doctors say they caused a female patient to have out-of-body experiences by stimulating her brain. They believe this explains what happens when people who are clinically dead report experiences of leaving their body and watching it from above. They didn’t create the effect intentionally?it happened while they were treating her for epilepsy.
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An invasion of Iraq may make terrorism worse, because we would not be able to take over control of the country immediately. In the meantime, terrorists inside Iraq would have a chance to move or sell their weapons and locate elsewhere, where they could plan retaliation strikes.

According to Iraqi defectors and UNSCOM, the UN special commission charged with finding and destroying Iraq’s weapons, weapons storage areas and production plants are small and hidden all over the country, often underground. Some are even mobile.
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Now that football season is here and we’re also looking forward to the World Series, scientists from the University of Budapest decided to figure out how many people are needed to produce The Wave?that undulating up-and-down motion that moves across entire stadiums. They studied video tapes of the 1986 World Cup in soccer and built a mathematical model to describe how The Wave works. Tamas Vicsek and his colleagues discovered that at least 30 people are necessary to get a Wave started and Waves are more likely to work during calm times, when spectators aren’t overexcited.
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People are bad at spotting liars because they look for the wrong signals. “People are really dreadful at detecting when someone is lying,” says Richard Wiseman, of the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. “They think that liars avoid eye contact and fidget a lot. In fact, liars maintain more eye contact and they don’t fidget.

“What you should do is look to see if there are long pauses between the questions you ask and the answers people give,” he says. Other indicators include the use of short sentences, and any errors in the person’s speech. Lack of movement can also be a clue that the person is lying. Wiseman doesn?t think polygraph machines are accurate and says, “They detect when someone is stressed, not necessarily when they are lying.”
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