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March 28, 2003

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES and RICH SONES, Ph.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. Rich guy starts doubting his wife's faithfulness and fears for his money. "She loves me, she loves me not...." Tormented, he gets her to agree to take a lie detector (polygraph) test. Now can he be sure?

    A. Old tale tells of a king worried over his son's listlessness and inexplicable swoons, says University of New Brunswick-Saint John psychophysiologist Michael Bradley. A physician took the young man's pulse and had the father's wife (the stepmother) enter the room. The tumultuous rhythm of the young man's heart was clue to a diagnosis of love.


     
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