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  • In spite of rumors to the contrary, for example, evidence clearly shows that flu shots don't trigger asthma attacks or cause a type of facial paralysis called Bell's palsy.

    Report: Vaccines safe, side effects rare 2011

  • Though the term has more recently been applied to insincere or fake crying, the original description of crocodile tear syndrome was based on people who would cry while eating or drinking, due to either a facial injury or a condition called Bell's palsy. cause a person to produce tears while eating or drinking, a similar process could cause a person to produce tears when they urinate, according to the report.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2012

  • He added in a separate written statement that the findings in Mr. Bell's report "reaffirm that my actions have been and remain consistent with established law."

    Partisan Split Widens Over Nuclear Regulator Stephen Power 2011

  • Bell's theorem, that you refer to, was produced by a man who realized that it was Einstein who proposed a scientific definition of reality and who suggested a possible way to test it (albeit one that, like superstrings or m-theory does not yet seem amenable to testing.)

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • Although the official subject of their appearance—scheduled for Thursday before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works—is the agency's response to the nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant, aides to committee members in both parties said lawmakers were bound to question Mr. Jaczko and his colleagues about Mr. Bell's findings.

    Partisan Split Widens Over Nuclear Regulator Stephen Power 2011

  • John Shimkus of Illinois and Darrell Issa of California said Mr. Bell's findings showed Mr. Jaczko had cynically cut short a valid effort by the agency to evaluate the scientific merits of a repository decades in the making.

    Partisan Split Widens Over Nuclear Regulator Stephen Power 2011

  • I was listening to NPR this morning — one of the few perks of Bell's satellite TV service — and heard the perplexing statistic that 40% of British citizens believe in ghosts, which is up from 30% fifty years ago.

    Who They Gonna Call? 2009

  • Bell's contribution was to find a practical way to test it.

    Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

  • I was listening to NPR this morning — one of the few perks of Bell's satellite TV service — and heard the perplexing statistic that 40% of British citizens believe in ghosts, which is up from 30% fifty years ago.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Well, I have Jim Bell's bigass coffee table book sitting over there in the corner if there is anyone out there who doesn't know that we got our moneys worth out of these rovers a long time ago.

    Old Age Could be Getting to Mars Rover Spirit - NASA Watch 2009

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