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...Groth's watch, nearly a dozen psychics have been arrested on charges ranging from fortunetelling, a selectively enforced misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail, to grand larceny, a felony. One clairvoyant allegedly convinced a client that rubbing her body with raw eggs and bathing in special potions would lift a curse. The cost of that exorcism? About $500,000. A similarly inventive psychic encouraged an undercover cop to buy 90 candles, at $55 each, to fend off evil spirits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I See a Policeman In Your Future... | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...filled with regret. It's about college, about my adolescent years, yes. I don't even know if I'm going to publish this. This is something that I'm working on because I am really in the mood to work on it. It's basically like a psychic head-cleaning. But the novel that I've been planNing for the past year or so, is autobiographical...

Author: By Shara R. Kay and Jonathan S. Paul, S | Title: Don't Be an Asshole | 2/18/1999 | See Source »

...suffer too. It's one thing to fool around with serotonin levels in a brain that's already hardened and set, but quite another thing to manipulate a young, still elastic brain. And if children learn to medicate depression away, when do they develop the coping skills to weather psychic squalls on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of Ritalin: Next Up: Prozac | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Times she explains Tripp's decision not to give false testimony as predicated on a comment a psychic made to "an Indian friend" of Tripp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 5, 1998 | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

...series, published by Macmillan, is still a distant second. But sales are expected to reach $28 million this year, more than double the figure for 1997. Its topics are more creative, from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Beating the Blues to The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Psychic. For presidential-scandal lovers, Macmillan has commissioned a bankruptcy lawyer to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Starr Report. Author Steven D. Strauss says the book, which he is finishing up, will "explain a lot, like what impeachment means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle Of The Knuckleheads | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

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