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Having spent decades trying to detect the use of performance-enhancing drugs, officials may soon be confronted with the paradoxical problem of detecting their non-use.The reason for this paradox is the placebo effect: believing a treatment to be effective is sometimes enough to make it so.

For all the criticisms you might make of his leadership, they are all strangely paradoxical.

The striking thing about the poster was paradoxical: it was a novelty on the one hand, and a harking back on the other.

"It's paradoxical that Spain, the biggest tourist destination after France and the United States, is practically unknown in China," said Kurt Grötsch, chief executive of Chinese Friendly International, whose endorsement is recognised in all 28 EU member states.

"This paradoxical unreal reality is a rich playground for horror".

This has resulted in some paradoxical policy positions.

I am grateful to Hadley Freeman for highlighting the paradoxical attitude of the British towards alcohol (Alcoholism is tragic. So why can't Brits stop sniggering?, 4 June).

It's paradoxical because he was also a very strong person, a dominant person".

For Mrs Merkel now depends on either red or green to form a new government.In this section A new match for black Still a puppet master Budgetary blues Nasty fight ahead Preening Not so Calvinist any more Waiting for Angela ReprintsThis need shows what a paradoxical victory she won on September 22nd.

There were both good and bad reasons for this paradoxical good cheer.First prize for gloom went to the business secretary Vince Cable, who told delegates that the country faced a crisis that was "the economic equivalent of war".

More recently, the invention of nuclear weapons has brought about a paradoxical peace among superpowers.