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...results--the outcomes of those prayed over were 50% to 100% better than those of a control group--were sufficient, as Krucoff puts it, to be "intriguing." He and Crater will present them at an American Heart Association meeting in November, and the duo hope to begin a full-bore, statistically powerful study next year. Meanwhile, for patients who want them, they see no reason why the intercessions should cease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Test of the Healing Power Of Prayer | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...wholly compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome. But Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least 10 years. Again, disputation seems insolent in the case of this film, but in this mediocre summer, even the best films bore compromises that were hard to ignore. Nicholas K. Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...compelling, and the framing device of the ex-soldier in the cemetery is maudlin and cumbersome; Spielberg hasn't gotten an ending right in at least ten years. As I said, disputation seems insolent in the case of this film, but in this mediocre summer, even the best films bore compromises that were hard to ignore. Nicholas K. Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITAS | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...could have sent this to you?" Dad queried. He couldn't believe that the letter was for me, and for real. But it proved to be authentic; it even bore the signature of Horace Deets, the Executive Director. Horace offered me Modern Maturity, a "handsome, helpful magazine [that] brings you hours of enjoyable reading," employment guides, seminars, AARP pharmacy service and travel benefits, among other delights. (Thanks to direct mailings like these, Modern Maturity is actually the largest circulation magazine in the United States.) Oh, and how could I forget? I also received my very own membership identification code, along...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

...attacks. In Nairobi dozens of eyewitnesses and survivors have told their tales, but every one of the accounts differs on important points of detail. It was a lone bomber; there were three; there were four or five. It was a light pickup; it was a three-ton truck. It bore diplomatic license plates; it had no license plates. The FBI is sorting through all these conflicting stories, feeding them into its state-of-the-art Rapid Start mobile computer system, which can discern similarities in the accounts or subtle patterns of association among seemingly unconnected characters, places or events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sifting For Answers | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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