Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the larger the neocortex, the more likely it is to be deceptive.

After the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Iraq once again embarrassed the IAEA, when inspectors uncovered a major covert nuclear weapons program. In 2003, Libya s renunciation of its secret weapons revealed how another country had hoodwinked the Agency.

The measures that it takes to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity are not tactically motivated posturing but rather legal acts of self defence, recognized as such by the United Nations Charter.

Alwar Balasubramaniam's sculpture plays with time, shape, shadow, perspective four tricky sensations that can reveal or conceal what's really out there. At TEDIndia, the artist shows slides of his extraordinary installations.

ZURICH The outbreak of mad cow disease in the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to the slaughter of 3.7 million cows and severely damaged the British cattle industry, began insidiously.

Another casualty was the legitimacy of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. For two decades, Khamenei deceptively cultivated an image of an impartial and magnanimous guide, but his defiant public support for Ahmadinejad exposed him as a petty, partisan autocrat.

Greenspan supported the tax cuts of 2001 with the most specious of arguments that unless something was done about America s soaring fiscal surpluses, the national debt would be totally paid off within, say, ten to fifteen years.