WASHINGTON, April 30 (UPI) -- "Every lie contains a truth and every truth contains a lie" is a safe rule of thumb when Shakespeare's powers of observation are applied to the Middle East. With each shake of the kaleidoscope, the configuration of the key players becomes a wilderness of mirrors.

LONDON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A British-Chinese study has mapped the bacteria living in seven members of a Chinese family to determine the role of gut microbes in bodily processes.

UPI Almanac for Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007.

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. physicists has discovered a way of slowing or stopping the movement of atoms, allowing a much wider exploration of molecules.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- U.S. chemists have discovered an antimicrobial process that could eventually eliminate the problem of bacterial resistance.

UPI almanac for Thursday, July 19, 2007.

WASHINGTON, March 15 (UPI) -- A team of U.S. and Chinese paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived 125 million years ago in China.

UPI almanac for Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.

Today is Wednesday, July 19, the 200th day of 2006 with 165 to follow.