A nine-year-old schoolgirl single handedly cooks up a science fair experiment that ends up debunking a widely practiced medical treatment. Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TF for short), whose advocates manipulate patients’ "energy field to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily’s test shows that these energy fields can’t be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn’t matter, it’s good science that matters, and this is good science." Emily’s mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the late 1980s, when she learned it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado. Its 100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U. S. ) don’t even touch their patients. Instead, they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body, pushing energy fields around until they’re in "balance". TT advocates say these manipulations can help heal wounds, relieve pain and reduce fever. The claims are taken seriously enough that TT therapists axe frequently hired by leading hospitals, at up to $ 70 an hour, to smooth patients’energy, sometimes during surgery. Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works. To provide such proof, TT therapists would have to sit down for independent testing — something they haven’t been eager to do, even though James Randi has offered moral 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." The experiment was straight forward: 21 TF therapists stuck their hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one of theirs left or right and the practitioners had to say which hand it was. When the results were recorded, they’d done no better than they would have by simply guessing. If there was an energy field, they couldn’t feel it. Why TI’ practitioners are reluctant to accept independent testing
A. ’They will not get financial benefits from the test.
B. The reliability to the test is highly doubted.
C. They believe the test is not in line with their practice.
D. They do not want to disclose the truth to the publi
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甲.乙签订了一份借款合同,甲为借款人,乙为出借人,借款数额为500万,借款期限为两年。丙.丁为该借款合同进行保证担保,担保条款约定,如果不能如期还款,丙.丁承担保证责任。戊对甲.乙的借款合同进行了抵押担保,担保物为一批布匹(价值300万),未约定担保范围。 设甲到期不能还款,乙申请法院对戊的布区进行拍卖,拍卖价款为550万元,扣除费用后得款520万元,足以偿还乙的本金.利息和费用。下列表述正确的是:
A. 乙可直接从戊的布匹拍卖款中清偿自己的全部债权
B. 乙保能从戊的布区拍卖款中清偿自己的债权300万元,余下的债权应向丙、丁追偿
C. 乙从戊处清偿了自己的全部债权后,戊可向丙、丁追偿其应承担的份额
D. 乙从戊处清偿了自己的全部队债权后,戊只对甲享有追偿权
The horse and carriage are things of the past. But love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages (31) young couples are the result of (32) attraction and affection (33) than practical considerations. In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin (34) in high school and usually find mates through their own (35) and social contacts. Though young people feel free to choose their friends from (36) groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is due in part to (37) guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually influence choices by (38) disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable. (39) , marriages between members of different groups ( interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater (40) of today’s youth and the fact that they are restricted by (41) prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend college, (42) in the armed forces, (43) pursue a career in a bigger city. (44) away from home and family, they are more (45) to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither (46) nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are (47) the rise particularly between Protestants and Catholics. (48) interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, and (49) a family. Marriages between people of different national (50) (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace here since colonial times.
A. raise
B. rise
C. stick
D. feed
The horse and carriage are things of the past. But love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages (31) young couples are the result of (32) attraction and affection (33) than practical considerations. In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin (34) in high school and usually find mates through their own (35) and social contacts. Though young people feel free to choose their friends from (36) groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is due in part to (37) guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually influence choices by (38) disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable. (39) , marriages between members of different groups ( interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater (40) of today’s youth and the fact that they are restricted by (41) prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend college, (42) in the armed forces, (43) pursue a career in a bigger city. (44) away from home and family, they are more (45) to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither (46) nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are (47) the rise particularly between Protestants and Catholics. (48) interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, and (49) a family. Marriages between people of different national (50) (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace here since colonial times.
A. family
B. personal
C. academic
D. communal
The horse and carriage are things of the past. But love and marriage are still with us and still closely interrelated. Most American marriages, particularly first marriages (31) young couples are the result of (32) attraction and affection (33) than practical considerations. In the United States, parents do not arrange marriages for their children. Teenagers begin (34) in high school and usually find mates through their own (35) and social contacts. Though young people feel free to choose their friends from (36) groups, most choose a mate of similar background. This is due in part to (37) guidance. Parents cannot select spouses for their children, but they can usually influence choices by (38) disapproval of someone they consider unsuitable. (39) , marriages between members of different groups ( interclass, interfaith, and interracial marriages) are increasing, probably because of the greater (40) of today’s youth and the fact that they are restricted by (41) prejudices than their parents. Many young people leave their home towns to attend college, (42) in the armed forces, (43) pursue a career in a bigger city. (44) away from home and family, they are more (45) to date and marry outside their own social group. In mobile American society, interclass marriages are neither (46) nor shocking. Interfaith marriages are (47) the rise particularly between Protestants and Catholics. (48) interracial marriage is still very uncommon. It can be difficult for interracial couples to find a place to live, maintain friendships, and (49) a family. Marriages between people of different national (50) (but the same race and religion) have been commonplace here since colonial times.
A. morality
B. mobility
C. motivation
D. modality