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Nature's editors were duly skeptical. The magazine had printed, with disclaimers, some dubious reports in the past. In 1974, for example, Nature published a paper that claimed Psychic Uri Geller, since discredited by Randi, could predict dice throws a million times as accurately as chance would predict...
...during the years of the flower children and the counterculture. Then in 1972, two scientists at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) announced that they were testing an Israeli psychic who could apparently cause objects to levitate, spoons to bend and electron beams to change direction. Their subject, Uri Geller, quickly became a celebrity, but Randi, watching him perform, was < unimpressed. "The tricks were very simple," he says. "There was nothing you couldn't get off the back of a cornflakes box, so to speak." Randi decided it was time...
...URI's big innings were the third (three runs on three hits) and the fourth (four runs on one hit). Rhode Island (10-28 overall) jumped on Harvard starter and loser Jon Biotti (2-2) and continued its hitting display against relievers Will Mercer and Jay Jakimczyk...
Harvard had won its game earlier in the day over URI, 15-5, stretching its varsity record to 10-0. But the Crimson players found themselves down to the Engineers, 10-8, entering the final stanza. It marked only the second time all year they were down entering the fourth quarter...
...URI: Coach Tom Penders hates orange. It doesn't clash with anything. Now Rhode Island, the team Brent Musberger wouldn't shut up about, is a party guest. I wonder how much Penders hates little Blue Devils...