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| The device that is widely used to detect lies today, the polygraph, is simply too unreliable. It is too inaccurate for the results to be admissible in court cases. A 2002 report by the National Research Council concluded that the polygraph can��셳 distinguish innocent people from guilty ones. In response, the U.S. Department of Energy began relying less on the use of the polygraph to conduct security checks on its employees. |
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The Rise of the Mega |
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| With few exceptions, human history can be viewed as an upward trend in population density. We evolved from nomadic ��쐆unting and gathering��� societies to tribal villages, then to small towns, and ultimately to the grand and glittering cities we see today throughout the industrialized world. |
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| Americans are under siege by terrorists right now, but the primary source of the problem is not al Qaeda or any other foreign terrorist organization. The threat stems from home-grown activist groups with names like: the Animal Liberation Front, the Earth Liberation Front, and Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. And it��셲 not just left-wing radicals who are causing the problems. Domestic terror threats include bombings by right-wing terrorists such as Timothy McVeigh and abortion clinic bomber Eric Rudolph. |
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Off-Shoring, D??Vu |
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| Every 15 years or so, we萸쮍 told that America萸� economy faces a grave danger because of the loss of jobs to foreign companies. |
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Increasing Global Ec |
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| Prior to the past decade, the Federal Reserve and U.S. government controlled all the resources they needed to implement monetary and fiscal policies required to salvage the U.S. economy. At the same time, because the U.S. economy was so big and powerful, its recovery alone would create the momentum needed to enable our trading partners to recover as well. |
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