But as science begins to corroborate intuition, the public is reassessing where credit and responsibility lie for character traits that may be in part genetically preordained.
F.B.I. officials said this weekend that they had begun to corroborate some of Mr. Hammad's statements regarding his work, but that they were continuing to investigate whether the men had any terrorist links.
It is fashionable to think of Freud as a fantasist who was hopelessly unscientific in his methods and conclusions, but, in recent years, state-of-the-art neuroscientific research has begun to corroborate many fundamental Freudian insights.
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Though the surprisingly positive employment report was not enough to persuade Fed officials that the job market had begun to recover, it corroborated evidence of rapid growth in factory production and buoyant expectations of business executives.
A second sign that Trump himself is under investigation would be if Mueller begins to interview witnesses who can corroborate Comey's testimony and then the interviews, or subpoenas associated with them, become public.
Police said they had suspicions about the case "almost from the beginning," as they were unable to corroborate any of Talbott's accusations.
But the C.I.A. and F.B.I., and some top Czech officials, quickly began to cast doubt on the story, and Czech security officials were never able to corroborate the initial report, which was based on a single source.
Even in beating five other recent winners in the GPG Novices' Chase, Harry Topper corroborated the impression that he has barely begun to sketch out his own potential.
Another recent histological study performed by different workers corroborates these results, finding that rapid growth began to slow at around 16 years of age.
