Word: skeptics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judging by the just disclosed portfolio of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, short-term T bills are the way to go. Though Greenspan's choices reflect his desire to "avoid any conflicts of interest" and "have nothing to do with the market," it's no surprise that the notorious skeptic would invest in bonds. Caution, though, doesn't come cheap; in 1997 one-year T bills had a 6.2% return, while the S&P 500 rose...
...doubt there are a few people who think they're gay but aren't, and maybe Exodus has found every one of them. Reading their stories is like watching a spin-off of the Oral Roberts show in which a skeptic finds Christ, shouts that he is healed and throws away his homosexual crutches. Maybe the lame walk and homosexuals become heterosexuals, but I doubt...
...14TH CENTURY SKEPTIC One of the first universally accepted documentations of what we now know as the Shroud of Turin happens to be a letter declaring it a fraud. In 1389 Pierre d'Arcis, then Bishop of Troyes, described a "twofold image of one man, that is to say, the back and the front...thus impressed together with the wounds which he bore." The linen cloth had occupied a place of honor in a church in the tiny French town of Lirey since the 1350s; D'Arcis, who was writing to his Pope, complained that "although it is not publicly...
...down for independent testing--something they haven't been eager to do, even though the magician-turned-debunker James Randi has offered more than $1 million to anyone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field. (He's had one taker so far. She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an innocent fourth-grader? Says Emily: "I think they didn't take me very seriously because I'm a kid." Bad move, as it turned...
...social and personal benefits of religion without belief. Doubt, however, is not as problem-free as Miles makes it sound. Sitting in church may not be the best idea for every agnostic. Miles writes as if church attendance promises perfect calm and love for everyone, but for the skeptic, it may just introduce more big questions to worry about...