Word: skepticism
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...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Md. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...Between the partisan extremes, Emerson writes, "there arises a third party to occupy the middle ground... the skeptic, namely. He finds both wrong... He labors to plant his feet, to be the beam of the balance... You are both in extremes, he says... you are spinning like bubbles in a river... you are bottomed and capped and wrapped in illusions...
...will think this odd, or prissy, but trust me. Get hold of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Representative Men" - I'm serious - and read his essay entitled "Montaigne; Or, The Skeptic...
Most important, Rex works. Unlike the Vista, which gives gadgetry a bad name, Rex made even a techno-skeptic like me a little weak in the knees. It's impeccably stylish, right down to its cobalt blue docking station and purple cable connector, and at $150 to $190 (depending on the type of PC connection you choose), it's cheaper than most full-size handhelds. It's custom-made for notebook users who can slide it into a PC card slot for updates. True, it doesn't offer all the expansion options of the bigger handhelds, such as games...
Under the pen name Holden Scott--"my fantasy WASP name," Mezrich said--he is also the author of Skeptic and The Carrier...