Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what happened last week when Emily Rosa's experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TT for short), whose proponents manipulate patients' "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that these energy fields can't be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn't matter. It's good science that matters...
...have no problem with other people's drinking when they do it because they view alcoholic beverages as aesthetic delights. It just ain't my bag, baby--one whiff of wine and I have flashbacks from childhood of having to swig Robutussin to cure a bad cough. But since I've sniffed some pretty strong potpourri in my time, I can appreciate the value of a good buzz...
...Time to Die, excerpted in Britain's Daily Mail, Tilberis describes Diana's healing powers, which both women referred to as a "white light." Diana used the term metaphorically, but Tilberis maintains that a call from the princess boosted her platelet count while she was undergoing chemotherapy to cure her ovarian cancer. "I believe the princess was single-handedly responsible for getting me home to my family," Tilberis writes. "And no one will ever convince me otherwise." We won't even...
...walk. Exercise more. Enjoy the company of family and friends. Keep your hands far away from keyboards, or at least your wrists level and your RSI-prevention exercises numerous. Get some rest and, most importantly, sit under a good light. There aren't enough carrots in the world to cure all this squinting...
...Hubbard. Travolta is a strong adherent of the controversial "belief system." His friends and relatives say it empowers him with almost fearless self-confidence. He believes it does even more. "I once got so feverish we had to stop production on Grease," remembers director Randal Kleiser. "John decided to cure me using Scientology, and put his finger over my body for an hour. The next day I made a full recovery. Of course, it could have also been that flu shot from the medic...