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Mystical talk of energy fields spurred the Rocky Mountain Skeptics to organize protests against the University of Colorado Center for Human Caring (C.H.C.), which appears to be a hotbed of the TT movement. There therapeutic touch is thriving despite appeals by the skeptics to the university, the state board of nursing and even the Colorado legislature to justify teaching the bizarre technique. A university committee, while acknowledging "methodological flaws" in TT, recommended retaining it in the curriculum, largely on the grounds of "academic freedom...
Jarvis may have been referring to Jean Watson, who heads Colorado's C.H.C. and accepts TT, and to Quinn, an associate professor at the university's health sciences center. Quinn teaches TT courses, lectures widely and has also produced a $675 video called Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human Energy Fields, which the Manhattan-based National League for Nursing is promoting...
Clinton found another bit of encouragement in the re-election of Colorado Governor Roy Romer, a genuine New Democrat. When Clinton phoned to congratulate him, Romer urged the President to return to New Democrat themes. "People had expectations that he didn't deliver on," Romer told TIME in recounting the 15-minute talk. "They voted for change two years ago, and they don't see it happening." Romer also advised Clinton to "get out with the people more" and address "one of the anxieties that people have, that they're not being listened to." In typical fashion, Clinton, aides...
...TERM LIMITS: Voters adopted them for congressional posts and other offices in Alaska, Colorado, District of Columbia, Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Nevada...
GAMBLING: Casino proposals were rejected in Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Wyoming and the Navajo reservation. Missouri approved slot machines on riverboats, and New Mexico okayed video gambling and a lottery...