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Preposterous though it seems, that's pretty much what happened last week when Emily Rosa's experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TT for short), whose proponents manipulate patients' "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that these energy fields can't be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn...
...brought theirs, as did Vanessa Redgrave, Robin Williams and Naomi Judd. And finally, Stanley Donen. His sweet, self-effacing song made a pointed contrast to Titanic director Jim Cameron's "King of the World" shtick. There were losers too, of course. Poor Joan Rivers, broadcasting live, didn't recognize Rosa Parks, Tyra Banks or Mercedes McCambridge and asked five-time nominee, one-time winner Robert Duvall if he'd ever been nominated before. Just plain E!mbarrassing...
...families share with the truly destitute. A fierce sense of personal rectitude makes thievery unthinkable. "It is not the police who prevent crime but the honor inside us," insists Fikad, the blacksmith. "The corruption is the lowest of any government I've ever worked for, including in Santa Rosa, Calif.," says Michael O'Neill, an American adviser to the Commercial Bank of Eritrea. "They will not tolerate it in any way, shape or form." During the war, the fighters were too desperate for money to put any into people's pockets, and that scrupulous use of every precious resource carries...
Here in snowy Cambridge, California may seem like a sunny paradise--but after 32 years as a California grape worker, Rosa Felipe says life in the grape vines remains extremely harsh...
...Care Center. Because our facility is in California and bears the name Creekside Convalescent Hospital, we are worried people will confuse us with the home you wrote about. We are in no way related to the former Creekside facility in Vacaville. GEORGIA OTTERSON, Administrator Creekside Convalescent Hospital Santa Rosa, Calif...