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That was the year the Berlin Wall came down, but Cheney arrived at the Pentagon as a Gorbachev skeptic, unconvinced that this was the beginning of a new era in which the U.S. defense budget could be reduced by much. In the end, he delivered a 25% cut in the military, which required a major rethinking of Pentagon doctrine, and an ambitious and politically difficult plan for closing military bases in the U.S. He also went after some of the expensive but dubious weapons programs he had supported in Congress. He canceled the Navy's $57 billion A-12 attack...
GOING THE DISTANCE It's enough to make a skeptic squirm. After analyzing the results of two dozen trials, researchers say there may be some merit in the alternative art of "distance healing," which includes praying for someone's well-being and "therapeutic touch," in which healers move their hands over (but not on) a patient's body. In 57% of the studies, these practices appeared to accelerate recovery or reduce pain. As for how distance healing may work, that's for a higher authority...
MOORE I'm a bit of a skeptic on molecular chips. Maybe I'm getting old. It's hard for me to see how those billions of transistors can be interconnected at that level...
...skeptic until I tested what's already here. It doesn't look like much, but a game called Snake, which is on most Nokia phones, is highly addictive. In a kind of virtual scavenger hunt, players collect pieces of "food" scattered onscreen. The more food you collect, the longer your onscreen "snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even...
Kabala cites a 1997 article from Science claiming global warming theory as inconclusive. Surely, Kabala read the end of the article that cites a skeptic as saying he views warming theory with 97 percent confidence. Kabala cites satellite data that says there has been no global warming since 1979; surely, he is aware of the findings in Nature that show that those readings did not take orbital decay into account. After the correction, warming trends corresponding to temperature become evident. These scientists, backed up by NASA scientists in a more recent Science article, "conclude that the question...