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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Draped in embroidered cloth, laden with candles, redolent with roses and incense, the altar at the Santa Fe, New Mexico, home of Eetla Soracco seems an unlikely site for cutting-edge medical research. Yet every day for 10 weeks, ending last October, Soracco spent an hour or more there as part of a controlled study in the treatment of AIDS. Her assignment: to pray for five seriously ill patients in San Francisco...
...public-health professor at California's Loma Linda University and the president of the National Council Against Health Fraud. But it may not be necessary to understand how prayer works to put it to use for patients. "We often know something works before we know why," observes Santa Fe internist Larry Dossey, the author of the 1993 best seller Healing Words...
...transnational corporations than of everyday workers resonates because we all suspect it's true. But if Bob Dole and Bill Clinton don't get it, or only pretend to get it in order to get elected, then Buchanan might very well be our next President. JIM TERR Santa Fe, New Mexico...
When Wade Miller called Atlanta to order volleyball tickets, everything went smoothly until he gave the agent his Santa Fe, New Mexico, address. She said she couldn't sell tickets to anyone living outside the U.S.; he would have to call his own national Olympic committee. Miller says he spent the next half an hour trying to convince the agent and a supervisor that New Mexico was part of the U.S. An Olympics official later apologized to "everybody out in New Mexico...
...stereotypical sojourn involves a persistent salesman on commission (loud checked sport jacket optional), high-pressure haggling and a persistent anxiety that the buyer was talked into something he or she didn't quite want. Naturally, the heap falls apart in a few weeks, creating a desire for auto-da-fe...