The 23 who had written about everyday interactions and 20 of the 39 who had written about behaving unethically were asked to submerge their non-dominant hand (ie, left, if they were right-handed, and vice versa) into a bucket of ice for as long as they could.

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On the other hand, Suharto has never re-appointed a vice-president.

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For reasons that lie deep in the evolutionary history of the vertebrates, the right hemisphere deals with sensory input from the left-hand side of the body, and vice versa.

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But the president's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, indicated earlier this week that the president and vice-president, Dick Cheney (who had a strong hand in shaping Iraq policy), had not been aware of the report on Niger.

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United's text analyzer looks for particular words and themes and can pick up on a customer reporting a seat where the in-flight entertainment didn't work, for example, said Martin Hand, senior vice president of customer service.

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The vice-president began by allaying fears that he would burden business with a green and heavy hand: government has its place so long as government knows its place, he said, adding that slump in the developing world makes growth a top priority for governments.

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