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The White House official whom Bob Woodward charged had crosssed a line by saying he would "regret" printing his version of a set of Washington negotiations was Gene Sperling, the director of the White House Economic Council, a source familiar with the exchange told BuzzFeed Wednesday. The email from Sperling to Woodward, which Woodward read to Politico Wednesday, has transfixed Washington, with Republicans and some in the press charging that it embodies a White House lording it over a cowed press corps. Woodward, Politico reported, called the top official — identified to BuzzFeed as Sperling — to tell him that...

For a fighter pilot, flagging attention could bring crashing consequences. The same holds true for air-traffic controllers, for airport-security personnel and for other industries as well. And lapses in attention are always likely because vigilance is hard work for the human brain. But the drain on the brain can be reduced and performance enhanced by prompting attention, according to research by a team of University of Cincinnati and Catholic University of America psychologists. The research, performed at the University of Cincinnati which houses the nation's largest vigilance testing laboratory, was just published in the January 2003 issue of the quarterly...