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Dan Brown - Deception Point (9780743490306)

Patika.

space station was originally proposed as a joint venture, with twelve countries sharing the costs. But after construction began, the station’s budget spiraled wildly out of control, and many countries dropped out in disgust.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

With over 1.25 million known species and an estimated five hundred thousand still to be classified, earth’s “bugs” outnumbered all of the other animals combined. They made up 95 percent of all the planet’s species and an astounding 40 percent of the planet’s biomass.

ground zero.

Politics was a media game.

The old Yankee proverb embodied one of her mom’s basic beliefs—that all challenges can be overcome by speaking the truth, no matter how it comes out.

baptism by fire.

One Valentine’s Day, Tolland took her to her favorite restaurant. When the waiter brought Celia’s dessert, it was a single rose and a diamond ring.

The Law of Parsimony, she thought. Her NRO instructors had driven it into her subconscious. When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct.

Establish trust. Let them know you understand their problems.

Because underwater sounds carried for hundreds of miles, the SAA network of fifty-nine underwater microphones around the world could listen to a surprisingly large percentage of the planet’s oceans.

whether or not the clock is ticking, there are certain things you just do not do.

fetal position.

“overshooting”—an interrogation technique invented by the early Roman authorities to coax confessions from criminals they suspected were lying. The method was deceptively simple: Assert the information you want confessed. Then allege something far worse. The object was to give the opponent a chance to choose the lesser of two evils—in this case, the truth. The trick was exuding confidence.

most cellphone users had no idea that every time they made a call, a government listening post, if so inclined, could detect their position to within ten feet anywhere on earth—a small hitch the cellphone companies failed to advertise.

Shrimpus Uglius From Hellus.

“In the human species, the emotions of fear and sexual arousal are closely linked.”