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With a handful of scientists and journalists who were also appalled at the easy acceptance of Geller's claims, Randi founded CSICOP, the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, which today includes such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, Nobel Laureate Physicist Murray Gell-Mann and Psychologist B.F. Skinner. As CSICOP's point man, Randi sought out TV producers and editors and demonstrated that he could duplicate Geller's feats simply by using distraction and sleight of hand. Geller soon came a cropper. During a disastrous 22-minute appearance on the Tonight show, he failed to perform...
...identified the four as Armenian human rights activist Paruir Irikyan; Vyacheslav Chernovol, editor of an unofficial Ukrainian journal; Mikhail Gorin, a Ukrainian human rights activist; and Ivan Gell...
...group of younger faux designers, who sell much of their jewelry in department stores, is also rising fast. Sales of Wendy Gell's ornate baubles, which cost from $25 to $5,000, are up 40% this year. Some of her best-known designs feature thousands of small rhinestones clustered around a crystal centerpiece. Jay Feinberg's simple and sleek Austrian-crystal jewelry, priced from $20 to $500, is popular at such upscale outlets as Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. While many faux pieces are original designs (Lane's big sellers this season are animals, bows and flowers), some...
...laureate is one of six children of the noted Harvard chemist E. Bright Wilson. At eight, he could calculate cube roots in his head. After graduating from Harvard in 1956, he studied for his doctorate at Caltech under Murray Gell-Mann, the 1969 Nobel laureate in physics. One of his favorite spare-time activities is folk dancing, in particular the rousing Swedish hambo...
...depends upon a sincere and long-term commitment. The increasing number and quality of female applicants to the DBA program over the past five years demonstrates the talent potentially available to the administration. This year seven of the 14 students registering in the DBA program were women. Karen E. Gell, the program's assistant director, attributed the dramatic increase in qualified female applicants to an increasing number of women MBAs. "The DBA program is fed by the MBA program," Schubert says. One can only hope the administration will be equally successful in using qualified DBA to "feed" their faculty...