The carnation trafficking episode happened almost two decades ago.
Her worst episode happened on a Saturday morning, her cries of agony ringing out around the house.
If a similar episode happens six months from now, editors say, Newsweek probably will not even bother.
Father Lombardi said: "I don't deny that this episode happened, but it didn't impact on the rest of his trip, nor on his decision to resign.
The Italian government, which has argued that Italy should investigate because its sailors were involved and the episode happened in international waters, called the decision "unacceptable".
The episode happened at about 2 p.m. Tuesday, and involved three US Airways regional jets carrying a total of 192 passengers and crew members.
The episode happened on Friday afternoon 25 miles from here, on the edge of a Palestinian village, Masha, in the West Bank.
The episode happened around 6 p.m. Sunday at a security checkpoint in Pul Mahmood Khan, near the Defense Ministry, a massive compound surrounded by high stone walls topped with concertina wire.
To complete the study, the participants returned weeks later and rated each of their own tales on a variety of scales, including the emotions they felt at the time and the estimated date when the episode happened.
The hotel episode happened a week before Tindall was captured on security footage holding a woman's hand and receiving a kiss on top of his head during a night of revelry in a Queenstown bar.
He said that as the investigation got under way, he and his team looked at roll-call logs to figure out who had been in the vicinity of the Prospect Park subway station, where the episode happened, that day.
