After analysis of the damage and the pattern in which debris fell convinced researchers that the cause was the explosion of the center fuel tank, they desperately tried to figure out where in the tank the blast originated.
To arrest the decadence and infuse new vitality in a society in which they were convinced religion must remain the focal point, the modern reformers advocated a return to the movements and masters of Islamic theology and philosophy antedating the new wisdom.
Capgras delusion is a delusional misidentification syndrome, in which patients become convinced that someone close to them has been replaced by an impostor.
"Meditations in Green" (1983), his first novel (the Vintage edition came out last summer), is a fever dream of the Vietnam War in which a soldier becomes convinced that the real enemy is the vegetable kingdom itself.
He gave as an example a session in which a patient was convinced that Dr. Renik had been especially gentle and careful with him during the previous hour in order not to hurt him.
Turek, who was a co-author of the latter study, says the trick with the artificial testicle is to create an environment in which stem cells become convinced that they're living in a real-life testicle.
Capgras delusion is a delusional misidentification syndrome, in which the patient is convinced that someone that is well known to them, usually a close relative, has been replaced by an impostor or double.
His performance in the 1995 American League Division Series, in which he pitched scoreless innings of relief, convinced Yankees management to keep him and convert him to a relief pitcher the following season.
The following year, in what was no doubt intended as an arch piece of casting, former Moses Charlton Heston got to play the man upstairs in yet another barely remembered comedy, Almost an Angel, in which hospitalised petty crook Paul Hogan becomes convinced that, having been refused entry to heaven, he has been given the opportunity to redeem himself back on earth as a probationary angel.
Earlier this week, New York litigator Marc Dreier was arrested on charges he defrauded hedge funds out of $113 million in a bizarrely brazen scheme in which he faked promissory notes and convinced investors they were legitimate.
