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...what also shows up is a surprising attitude of skepticism. "We get plenty of nonsense," admits Charles Tolbert, an astronomer at the University of Virginia and the S.S.E.'s president. "Sometimes you know just five minutes into a talk that it's absurd. But you also hear things that make you think." Like Tolbert, many of the scientists here are on the faculty at major universities, and were doing fine at conventional research. But sometimes that gets boring. "I was plodding along, adding a little to a large body of knowledge," says Garret Moddel, an engineering professor at the University...
Given this remarkable mix of acceptance and skepticism, it's not so surprising, then, that Henry Bauer, the editor of S.S.E.'s journal and a dean emeritus at Virginia Tech, wrote the definitive treatise debunking Immanuel Velikovsky, whose best-selling books in the 1950s argued that Old Testament miracles were triggered by close encounters with Venus. But it's also not surprising that that same Henry Bauer has published papers arguing that scientists have ignored powerful evidence that the Loch Ness Monster is real...
...corridor adorned with 19th century frescoes, two Senators who rarely vote the same way on anything were doing things the old-fashioned way: putting their silver heads--and their combined 72 years of Senate experience--together in an effort to pull their less seasoned colleagues back from the brink. Virginia Republican John Warner and West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd had each brought a copy of the Constitution and were poring over Alexander Hamilton's "Federalist No. 66" to see if they could discern precisely what the Founding Fathers meant when they gave the Senate the power to advise the President...
...assassins at rival agencies. When professional circumstances pit the Smiths against each other, a hilarious fire fight between two trained killers ensues ("I missed you, honey" becomes a double entendre), which somehow, mysteriously, becomes a portrait of a marriage rediscovering its lost flame. It's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with concussion grenades...
...peace and faith. It is frequently said that a person left the world a better place than he found it, but that is so often not true. The greatness of John Paul II's papacy is that he genuinely influenced the world for the better. Dan Stewart Ashburn, Virginia, U.S. I am puzzled by the worldwide emotional reactions of sorrow and emptiness caused by the Pope's death. True believers should realize that his suffering has ended and he is home now with God. I understand a certain degree of nostalgia, but for people to focus collectively on the worldly...