Word: touchings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suffered in combat with the Germans in Italy's Po Valley in 1945. But if pressed, he can movingly recollect how his neighbors took up collections that helped pay for his operations. Privately, Dole comes across as somewhat ambivalent about running for President, as though unalloyed ambition were a touch unseemly. As he puts it, "I have drive, but I'm not driven. Destiny's a pretty lofty word for me. I don't know whether I'm destined to do anything. Maybe right now is as far as I'm going...
...inflated," the core of the star begins to collapse like a deflating balloon, its matter crushing down toward the center. For a star about the size of the sun, the collapse stops after several intermediate steps when the stellar material is compressed so much that its atoms virtually touch, forming what physicists call degenerate matter; what prevents further collapse is the tendency of the atoms' negatively charged electrons to repel one another. The star has become a white dwarf. Says David Branch, an astrophysicist at the University of Oklahoma: "It's the size of the earth but has the mass...
Perle's departure from the Pentagon will free him to complete a novel that will show "how Government policy battles are fought out." Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger has persuaded Perle to stay in touch as a consultant, but concedes that "this place won't be the same without Richard." Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger agrees, noting sardonically, "I'm glad he's leaving, but his departure lowers discernibly the average IQ of this Administration...
...fact, every Sunday night the Healers' Resource Center runs a drop-in "healing circle" where members practice massage, and other forms of touch and mental healing on each other...
Brown explained the principle of touch-healing, where the hands are run over, but do not touch, a body to smooth the person's energy out. "The body is a movement of energy; a healer is someone who can sense where the movement of energy is blocked, and go to the source of the problem and cure it, rather than just treating the symptom," Brown says. "All health is really psychosomatic. A change in your attitude can make your problems go away." He says he has cured people of arthritis, and cites examples of people who have used mental energy...