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By Paul Kix - AOL NewsDoubt is supposed to engender all sorts of feelings, not the least of which is humility, the revelation that comes from not knowing what you thought you knew and having to reassess -- if the seed of doubt is strong enough -- all that you are. The surprising thing, disappointing even, is that people aren't at all humble when they're doubtful. Just the opposite, in fact. A new study from two Northwestern University marketing professors, David Gal and Derek Rucker, published in the journal Psychological Science, shows that people who were led to doubt something they believed in later ...
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By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOn the heels of a report that Donald Rumsfeld included Crusade-esque cover sheets on his intelligence briefings comes a jarring follow-up to the story of proselytizing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jake Tapper reports that Bibles sent to soldiers in Afghanistan for distribution to locals were rather unceremoniously disposed of:On May 5, Army spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis told Reuters that at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan "the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed."Today, Christian ...
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