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Ekman's formula is helpful, within limits. It defines the contexts in which lies are or are not improper. It absolves actors and fiction writers, for example, whose professions involve fabrications but whose audiences are presumably aware of this condition before they go to the theater or open a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. Political Campaign: Lies, Lies, Lies | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

As worthy as the goal may be, however, the effectiveness and value of the mass screening are matters of dispute within the medical community. One-third of the tumors picked up by the rectal exam are already inoperable. Yet the PSA blood test is also far from infallible. It misses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Private Pain of Prostate Cancer | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

The condition of previously side-lined Co-Captain Melissa McNabb is also questionable. "She's definitely in a recovery phase, and it looks very promising," Graham said. "She's getting better and better every day, but if she plays at all this weekend, it will only be doubles."

Author: By Patty W. Seo, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: A Tale of Two Harvard Tennis Teams... | 10/2/1992 | See Source »

IF AMERICA'S ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE seems suddenly alien and hostile to many citizens, there is good reason: they have never seen anything like it. Nothing in memory has prepared consumers for such turbulent, epochal change, the sort of upheaval that happens once in 50 years. That may explain why so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Haul: the U.S. Economy | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

Seale, 45, described how he and Irene, in an attempt to extort $18 million from Exxon, ambushed Reso from a van parked in front of his Morris Township home. When Reso stopped to pick up his newspaper at the end of his driveway, "I yelled and grabbed him by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Four Days in Hell | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

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