"You can tell a lie but you will give yourself away. Your heart will race. Your skin will sweat ... I will know. I am the lie detector." Thus began each episode of Lie Detector, a strange cross between a relationship counseling session and an episode of the Jerry Springer Show that ran on British daytime television last year. Against a backdrop of flashing computer screens and eerie blue light, participants--usually feuding couples but sometimes warring ...

That's what the latest analysis of national health data on adolescents shows. Between 1988-94 and 2005-06, the percentage of teens with hearing loss jumped by about a third, from 15% of 12-to-19-year-olds to 19.5%. And the reason may not be the ubiquitous earphones that snake from nearly every teen's ears during most hours of the day. A team headed by Dr. Josef Shargorodsky, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Channing Laboratory at Brigham and Women's ...

After God cast Lucifer and his followers into darkness, all the fallen angels came straggling together on the plains of hell -- to recriminate, to console themselves and to discuss their new identities as devils. It may be time for men to hold a convention for the same purpose. Let all men be summoned to a gathering of the masculine tribes, like a jamboree of the Indian nations in Montana long ago -- a Pandaemonium of the patriarchy, a sweat ...

After God cast Lucifer and his followers into darkness, all the fallen angels came straggling together on the plains of hell -- to recriminate, to console themselves and to discuss their new identities as devils. It may be time for men to hold a convention for the same purpose. Let all men be summoned to a gathering of the masculine tribes, like a jamboree of the Indian nations in Montana long ago -- a Pandaemonium of the patriarchy, a sweat ...

A post-mortem examination will be carried out this week on the body of singer Stephen Gately, who died Saturday while vacationing on the Spanish island of Majorca. Gately, a member of the Irish band Boyzone, was on the island with his partner, Andrew Cowles, the band's Web site said. Relatives of the 33-year-old singer and actor insisted his death was a "tragic accident" and that no foul play was involved, Britain's Press Association reported Monday. Spanish police said there ...

The trial in Myanmar of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi drew closer to an end Friday with testimony from the last witness and the scheduling of closing arguments. After completing a seven-hour examination of Suu Kyi's final defense witness, the court announced that closing arguments will be heard July 24. Nyan Win, Suu Kyi's lawyer, said the legal team has finished drafting arguments, which totaled 18 pages. Suu Kyi reviewed them and added four more pages, he said. The ...