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...been innuendo in the newspapers that I gave favors or I gave benefits as Trade Commissioner to individuals because of my personal friendship with them," he said. "The entirety of the European Commission, the Director General for Trade himself has made clear that there is not one jot of truth in that...
Buy?ology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy By Martin Lindstrom Doubleday; 240 pages...
...congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard--let's call him Jack--had been unfaithful to his wife and says he was feeling "crushed" by guilt. A few days after Jack posted the site's first confession, he broke down at a church service and admitted the truth to his wife, only to discover that she too had strayed. The act of unveiling the secret online had what Jack calls a snowball effect, easing the way for a meaningful conversation. "The heaviness I had carried was almost physical," he says. And now? "It's like we're dating...
...skepticism that forms the foundation of modern science. We cannot prove that plants are not sentient. Similarly, we cannot prove that bacteria do not have opinions on the Iraq War or that algae don’t love. However, the traditional role of skepticism is to seek truth by discarding assumptions. The ECNH has reversed this practice by creating policy based on the implied existence of the unproven.Besides this bad science, there is a fundamental absurdity in giving plants dignity while plenty of humans live without any. The United Nation’s Children’s Fund (UNICEF...
...kill only those who deserve it. The problem here is that the show built up too fast, and by the end of the second season Dexter had already evaded a statewide manhunt for the “Bay Harbor Butcher” and the only person who knew the truth about him was dead. Now the show lacks the suspense that made it so gripping, instead relying on a series of subplots. These include Dexter befriending a prosecutor whose brother he accidentally murdered. The prosecutor is played by Jimmy Smits, who after “The West Wing?...