Well, the information wouldn't have been much good, anyway.

Punishment and Amusement

Prisoners posed in three of the most infamous photographs of abuse to come out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were not being softened up for interrogation by intelligence officers but instead were being punished for criminal acts or the amusement of their jailers, according to previously secret documents obtained by The Washington Post.

Yep, that's about right.

Whats does your personality rate from 1-10? by morning_prayer
Your first full name
Your personality rates a	6
your best quality is	you're hot but modest about it
your worst quality is	you need what you can't have
this is because	life's a bitch
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

Though depending on the company, my personality fluctuates. With good friends I might be a 7 or even an 8. If I don't know you, well, that number drops fast.

(I might have posted this before.)

Paranormal beliefs linked to brain chemistry

Whether or not you believe in the paranormal may depend entirely on your brain chemistry. People with high levels of dopamine are more likely to find significance in coincidences, and pick out meaning and patterns where there are none.

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Some links stolen from xiombarg

A Radio Host Is On the Err (or, cops should find out if someone they're harrassing is affiliated with the media)

Is the Pentagon Giving Our Soldiers Cancer?--a jaw-dropping article. Here is a related article.

Placebos effect revealed in calmed brain cells: those silly neurons

(no subject)

'Stranger danger' drive harms kids

Children choose to stay indoors watching TV and playing computer games because they are terrified of the world outside, fresh research reveals.

In a high-profile launch this week, Education Secretary Charles Clarke will announce the findings which disclose that young children carry a daily expectation of being kidnapped by a stranger, sexually abused by a paedophile or becoming a victim of terrorism.

'We are not just failing to give children the opportunities to explore the real world,' said Di McNeish, director of policy and research at Barnardo's, which carried out the study with the Green Alliance, 'but are actively dissuading them by making them over-anxious about their external environment.

The survey of more than 1,000 children aged 10 and 11 reveals that the choice to remain indoors is being made because of an increasingly unrealistic assessment by children and their parents of the risks of the outside world.

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