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...PAID ANNE SCHEIBER MUCH mind when she was alive. If anyone at all noticed her outside her Manhattan studio apartment, the frugal spinster, a mere five feet tall, was always dressed in the same cheap black coat and hat. She never bought a stick of furniture. She rarely bought a newspaper. But she did read one diligently. Every so often she would venture out to the local library where she could read the Wall Street Journal without paying for it. And on her little noticed journeys outside her apartment, she would also visit her stockbroker. When she died...
...Scheiber made her fortune is as fascinating as why she gave it away. By the time she retired from a $3,150-a-year auditor's job at the Internal Revenue Service in 1943, she was already investing her $5,000 savings account in a stock portfolio. During her career reviewing other people's assets, she had noticed that most who left substantial estates had accumulated their money through common stocks. So Scheiber, who had earned a law degree and passed the Washington bar exam before joining the irs, studied the stock markets with the same precision that...
...mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine. Leading the attack is Rocky Mountain Skeptics, a group of scientists and other professionals based in Boulder, Colorado, who investigate what they call "pseudo science." Its president, computer specialist Bela Scheiber, charges that TT is "paranormal and religious activity masquerading as science...
...grants for TT research; and the Department of Defense, through Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, has just awarded a University of Alabama researcher the largest TT grant yet: $355,000 to study the effects of the practice on burn patients. "What next for the dod?" asks Scheiber. "Faith healing...
...Scheiber's process is new and virtually untested. But it does have one great commercial virtue-compatibility with existing hi-fi systems-for it requires only an "encoder" at the recording studio and a "decoder" in the home of the listener (in addition to the extra amplifiers and speakers). Yet whether the Scheiber system or something like it will really end by saving old-fashioned platter records from the tape revolution depends on the public. No one knows how record collectors will face up to the trouble and cost of replacing their favorite old recordings with new ones-either...