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...Duped, Drop by Drop I cannot believe that TIME would use an entire page to review bottled water [June 25-July 2]. Most people can't even distinguish between tap water and bottled water. I heard of a test in which different water bottles were filled with tap water from the same tap. Surprisingly, most participants thought they were drinking genuine bottled water and claimed that the (same) water from different bottles tasted different. That is nothing more than the power of suggestion. Unfortunately, our minds are being deceived not only by water bottlers but also by alternative medicine, psychics...
...Bird rarely became a target - except, perhaps, for cracks about her babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady Bird: "I've been many places, and I've heard nothing but admiration for you." She added with a smile: "And I've been places where I might have heard otherwise...
...though, it will be Campbell's relationship, not with Bush, but with Blair, that will long fascinate. Who controlled whom? A colleague recalls high-level meetings in which Blair would constantly glance at Campbell for his reaction. The press chief was heard to call his Prime Minister a "prat"; he "sometimes made Blair look subservient," says Meyer. Yet Campbell was utterly devoted to Blair and even now, on a summer's day and in a new political era, springs to his master's defense on Iraq, with a trace of his old ferocity. "I don't mind people saying...
...Sing-Guh) is the way the former Secretary of State's name is said in Mandarin. And while Kissinger may nowadays get blank stares in the U.S. and other parts of the world, here in Nanjing, where he was giving a speech in late June, practically everyone had heard of him. Almost the entire sample of people I spoke to before the event, from a PR firm manager to a factory electrician, knew who Jixinge...
...Duped, Drop by Drop I cannot believe that time would use an entire page to review bottled water [June 18]. Most people can't even distinguish between tap water and bottled water. I heard of a test in which different water bottles were filled with tap water from the same tap. Surprisingly, most participants thought they were drinking genuine bottled water and claimed that the (same) water from different bottles tasted different. That is nothing more than the power of suggestion. Unfortunately, our minds are being deceived not only by water bottlers but also by alternative medicine, psychics and even...