Word: candidates
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...series of surprisingly candid talks at Memorial Church last month, Dr. Francis S. Collins, the head of the publicly funded human genome project, spoke on how his own Christian faith can be squared with his scientific understanding of the world. His position is audacious. Most scientists who believe in God tend to claim completely separate domains for science and religion. At the risk of his colleagues thinking him nuts, Collins tries to integrate the two. Although his arguments fall short of a persuasive defense for how traditional belief is relevant to all scientists, he did showed how faith and science...
Hartzell says he took some planned shots, but most pictures were designed as candid in-the-moment snapshots...
...Actors knew that a Hirschfeld sketch granted them immortality - at least for a week. So it was rare, maybe one occasion in a thousand, when a subject would take issue with the artist's elaboration. Allen Funt, the creator and host of "Candid Camera," complained that he was made to look like an ape (orangutan or baboon?) in a Hirschfeld drawing. Al's response: "I had nothing to do with that. That was God's work...
...former editor of the Saturday Review who, when struck with a debilitating connective-tissue disorder, checked himself out of the hospital and into a hotel room, where he medicated himself with megadoses of vitamin C and endless reruns of Marx Brothers movies and old episodes of Candid Camera--anything that would keep him laughing and relieve his pain. It worked, according to the account he wrote up for the New England Journal of Medicine and later published as a book, Anatomy of an Illness. The disease that practically paralyzed him and had not responded to any drugs subsided and eventually...
Personally, I found it hard to believe I'm the one with the problems when my mother, who was going through a divorce, was making time to Candid Camera me. Nevertheless, in the interest of self-exploration and to avoid writing an actual science story for this mental-health issue, I decided to be analyzed by Dr. Phil. Searching for problems to work on, I considered talking to him about not having got a haircut for 11 months in an effort to disguise the fact that I'm going bald. But I figured Dr. Phil might not be the best...