Word: skepticism
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J.F.K. was a nervous man on the morning Alan Shepard climbed into Freedom 7. Always a skeptic about the technical claims of engineers and scientists, Kennedy glumly watched Shepard's launch with his hands jammed in his pockets, expecting the worst. Yet Shepard went smoothly in and out of space in 15 minutes and got the monkey off Kennedy's back...
...power to energize and reshape the bureaucracy comes from his political skills. A long-time Democrat who worked on the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee under then chairman David Boren, Tenet knows how to get the right information across and has earned the trust not just of CIA skeptic Bill Clinton but also of George W. Bush and his father, who once ran the CIA and whom Tenet occasionally briefed. "He's tried to serve all his masters as fairly and as effectively as he can," says the senior intelligence official...
...Hero?Zhang's attempt to explode in the worldwide movie market as Ang Lee did with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?is a lucid and cunning drama: ancient history (3rd century B.C.) refracted through a modern skeptic's sensibility. It views the birth of a nation through the murky motives of some of the first Emperor's potential assassins. For they are as duplicitous in their emotional lives as in their fatal politics...
...Conservative Party. "Fraud can therefore lie hidden within the system, undetected and untraced." With memories still fresh of the 1999 collapse of the previous European Commission under allegations of fraud and incompetence - few were ever proved - Andreasen's accusation whipped up a furor in British politics, especially among Euro-skeptic Tories...
Over the years the medical arguments for prescribing estrogen were also updated. "The vapid cowlike state was gone, and there was very scientific language about bone density and heart disease," explains Cynthia Pearson, executive director of the National Women's Health Network, a longtime skeptic...