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...Nonetheless, baranek stands out as a relative skeptic in his region, where everyone else speaks of the advent of the paved road as a magic pill for economic development. While all fear fire, few make the connection with the highway, and even fewer in this part of Par? are aware that they live in a potential tinderbox...
...Dawn Chong) who investigate suspected miracles--largely involving visitations from the dead--it's X-Files with a halo. But where The X-Files teased us for years about its alien conspiracies, the feel-good Ways is unabashedly pro-miracle. Chong is introduced as a Scully-like skeptic; by the second episode, she receives a message from her late husband. Sagansky distinguishes Ways from "paranormal" shows like The X-Files--but even that series featured the cathartic reunion of Mulder and his sister's spirit...
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...