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Old 06-10-2008, 11:46 AM
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That's correct. Just yesterday I solved the problem of a missing power brick in the school computer lab. Two girls who were left alone in the lab briefly had stolen it. They showed their guilt clearly with their body language and did it twice. None of the others gave the slightest indication of guilt. If they had all acted guiltless, I would have assumed that I put it in some fool place and then forgot where. One student vindicated himself on some missing discs a year or so ago and, sure enough, they turned up. It amazes me how cross-cultural this lying/truth body language is--from Bill Clinton down to the daughter of a subsistence farmer on the backside of the mountain.
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