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When he got the call from the Templeton Foundation a few weeks ago, Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor admits he was totally surprised. That's because the past few winners of the annual Templeton Prize, worth more than $1.5 million and awarded "for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities," has been given to scientists - physicists and cosmologists mostly, who have been willing to acknowledge that science alone can't necessarily explain the nature of the universe. It's clear that the foundation was consciously trying to counter the widespread impression that science and spirituality are inevitably at odds...
...Knowing that they were being prayed for may have caused patients to experience “performance anxiety,” meaning that they thought they were being prayed for because their prognosis was grim, the researchers speculated. The study cost $2.4 million. It was funded by the John Templeton Foundation, which seeks to study the intersection between religion and science. Although previous studies had been conducted on the effects of prayer, limitations such as small sample sizes affected their accuracies, according to HMS researcher Jeffrey Dusek. About 43 percent of American adults have prayed for their own health...
Harvard’s disputes occasionally have escalated to the courts. In Jan. 2003, Harvard moved to terminate Templeton Asset Management as the investment manager for two closed-end funds, the China World Fund and the Dragon Fund. Templeton sued Harvard, accusing it of “strong-arm investment tactics...
...week later, Harvard countersued, alleging that Templeton was improperly blocking its efforts to put a proposal in front of shareholders. The two sides settled their dispute when Templeton, in a partial victory for Harvard, allowed the University to sell back its $115 million investment at a price above market value...
Maybe, someday, President Allen, who seems headed for success in her fictional world at least. At the end of the pilot, she gives a speech so melodramatically stirring that even Templeton's Grinchy heart swells three sizes bigger. Perhaps a year from now she'll be just another tall, telegenic politician who made it to the Oval Office, needing neither to prove nor apologize for her femininity. Let's just hope she never...