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Even aesthetically, science leaves something to be desired. Today we hook wires to the skin and study squiggly lines, looking for transmitted truth. Three thousand years before the lie detector, it was in the Urim and Thummim, sacred stones in the breastplate of the biblical high priest, that truth was to be found. They glowed, says the historian Josephus, in patterns expressing oracular truth. And the wiring, to on high, was totally invisible. Now that was a machine. --By Charles Krauthammer
...week after the new regulations went into effect, many foreign journalists continued to be baffled by them. "We still are not certain where the boundaries really lie," said Michael Buerk, a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent...
...tente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted a pragmatic course that belied his hostile words: he lifted the ineffective grain embargo that Jimmy Carter had imposed on Soviet trade after the 1979 invasion of Afghanistan. Ever since, the Administration's policy toward the Soviet...
...more buoyant than surrounding rock, the diapirs percolate upward, like bubbles rising through honey, melting more rock as they go. Eventually they accumulate in pockets called magma chambers, located two miles to 15 miles underground. If the magma is very liquid and gases can escape gradually, a volcano may lie fallow for long periods of time...
...officials became alarmed last July and then again in September when an accurate GNP estimate was circulating among traders the day before its official release. In an effort to find the source of the leak, the Commerce Department has called in the FBI, which last week was giving voluntary lie-detector tests to key employees. More than 15 have submitted to the process, but no suspects have been announced...