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...National Academy of Sciences members are Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry James Anderson, Professor of Astronomy Margaret Geller, Lowell Professor of Sociology Stanley Lieberson, Professor of Biology Richard Losick, Professor of Medicine Stuart Schlossman and Ford Professor of the Social Sciences David Pilbeam...
...cause the silverware to bend, paying $30 for half an hour of this mind-expansion instruction. Late-night TV viewers can call a 900 number to be advised on their future -- for a price -- by soothsayers whom they will meet only by telephone, introduced by Israeli "superpsychic" Uri Geller. Blissful devotees of meditation techniques sit for endless hours in yogic positions in ashrams, bouncing about on mattresses and trying to fly with mental power. With my experiences of these and hundreds of other incredible examples of human credulity, the notion of foreign agents' playing presidential speeches backward is hardly surprising...
...extra gravity of dark matter could also have helped the galaxies grow faster out of the smoothness of the early universe. Even this explanation, however, does not sufficiently account for recent observations. "It is clear that there is something profoundly wrong with our theories," says Harvard astrophysicist Margaret Geller...
...watch barely shudders. "Timex," intones an announcer. "It takes a licking and keeps on ticking." At last, television viewers understand that they have been watching a sly parody of both the famous Timex slogan and the sort of magic act often performed by such self-professed psychics as Uri Geller...
Among the unamused: Geller himself. After the ads aired in 1989, he sued Timex and the advertising firm Fallon McElligott, which created the spot, for a very down-to-earth $8 million. Geller asserted that Timex used the fame of his "psychic abilities" to sell their watches. But last month a New York district court judge threw out four of Geller's five claims, such as the assertion that the ad violated his right to control his own image and publicity. The case will now proceed on the sole claim that Tim Dry, the actor featured in the commercials...