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Her project was a refreshingly simple experiment that showed "therapeutic touch" practitioners don't have a special ability to detect an energy field around human bodies.
Roads are refreshingly free of traffic; a prime source of motive power is still the tiny ponies pulling unlikely loads in two-wheeled traps.
The NYT's SAT piece hardly mentions the ethnic angle at all, dwelling much more on differences between boys' and girls' scores, and (in the online version at least), sits under a refreshingly calm headline: "College Board Scores Vary Little From Previous Year's."
It's a one joke movie, but the one joke is good, and the actors are great: "Laughs battle formulas and laughs win" (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). As the mob boss, "De Niro parodies his own persona with huge relish" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ), and Crystal's put-upon analyst is refreshingly underplayed.
The old fur trading post of Jasper is now a refreshingly peaceful resort town with a grand park lodge and fine facilities for rafting, canoeing, camping and other mountain sports.