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There are skeptics aplenty, such as James Randi, a Florida-based magician who wrote "The Truth About Uri Geller" (Prometheus Books), debunking Geller's ability to bend objects with his mind or divine the contents of sealed envelopes as simply magic tricks.

A practicing Christian who is skeptical of the occult, Wilson said that Enyo, the Akan priest, helped alert her to fibroid tumors that Wilson eventually had removed surgically.

Foster has testified that he thinks the White House had a hand in suppressing his $534 million estimate of what Bush touted to a skeptical Congress as a $400 million Medicare bill.

Forgive me if I view skeptically the "truth" from a guy who's been lying for 14 years.

Conklin's 11-year-old-son, Shane, home from school with what he described as "bad headaches," was called upon by a pair of skeptical journalists to startle the goats.

But skeptics of the plan said the president's goals likely would cost hundreds of billions of dollars -- money that might be scarce as the federal deficit is $500 billion a year and rising.

The protesters, skeptical of Khatami's ability to win concessions, have refused.

But he is a critic of the Pentagon’s old-fashioned Cold War doctrine of overwhelming air power, its overcautious use of ground troops, and its skepticism about the efficacy of unconventional war-fighting assets, like the Special Forces.

In truth, the skeptics and chronic dyspeptics stand a good chance of being more right than wrong by the time April rolls around.

The young man is a skeptic.

Since many people have heard of John’s death and resurrection, Jesus finds himself being skeptically tested by his audience: can he perform this and that miracle?Moreover, when Jesus hears that John has been crucified on Calvary, he decides to prove his authenticity by changing his plans: he will not now be crucified on Calvary, but will instead travel to Rome to be eaten by lions.

Reality is simply another broken wall, apparently protecting nobody from skepticism’s ravages.

And who is Sancho?Earlier in the book, Don Quixote says of Sancho, admiringly, that “he doubts everything and he believes everything.” Isn’t this a fine description of the reader of this novel?Sancho is Don Quixote’s reader, who lives on as the book’s readers do, all-believing and all-doubting, made both faithful and skeptical by the novel’s fidelities and skepticisms, happy inheritors of the Knight’s last will and testament.

And buckling highways in Alaska and melting snowcaps around the world have persuaded some skeptical lawmakers that global warming may be real after all.

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