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...precocious wizards, he declared, were in fact skilled amateur magicians. With Randi's connivance, they had been planted in the lab -- which soon lost its funding and closed down. And when a psychic demonstrated on a TV show that he could mentally cause pages of a book to flip, Randi sprinkled bits of Styrofoam around the opened book and asked for a repeat performance. The psychic, who had been unobtrusively exhaling through his lips to turn the pages, balked, all too aware that flying Styrofoam would literally blow...
...case of the Moscow summit of 1988, the feeling of mild anticlimax set in before Ronald Reagan even climbed aboard Air Force One to ride west. Part of the reason was the flip side of the good news about Soviet-American relations: this was, after all, Reagan's fourth meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev, and even the amazing sight of their walking through Red Square together could hardly be considered a historic triumph...
...book, The Best Congress Money Can Buy (Pantheon; $18.95), the veteran muckraker and anti-PAC crusader Philip M. Stern contends that special-interest donations have often been used to purchase crucial votes from U.S. legislators. Citing reports in the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, Stern accuses several lawmakers of flip-flopping on issues after they received big campaign contributions. Others, he says, have been handsomely rewarded for past votes...
Meanwhile, Vellucci has focused on differences over issues and on publicizing "flip-flops" among Howe's votes on Beacon Hill...
...Campeau, who already owns the Allied Stores chain of 286 retail outlets in the U.S., hiked his offer. Tired of being tugged in two directions, Federated set last Wednesday as a deadline for final bids. But the two sides kept sweetening their offers even beyond the cutoff, and Federated flip-flopped between choosing Campeau or Macy...