She had hooked up with the "psychic tester" Hans Holzer, a former adjunct professor of parapsychology (which attempts to apply scientific method to investigate claims of the paranormal) at the New York Institute of Technology (the Institute will neither confirm nor deny Holzer's status).

FORBES: Simply divined

With resolution authority, the idea is to take the same method the government has for seizing small banks and apply it to very large holding companies.

FORBES: Financial Reform: The Legislative Logjam

Like the courses at the Playhouse, Scientology offered actors a method that they could apply to both their lives and their careers.

NEWYORKER: The Apostate

Dr Eastlund has also been able to draw on subsequent research on turning solids into plasmas. (This method is, in fact, used to apply coatings to the insides of tokamaks.) And the advent of supercomputers able to simulate tokamaks should also speed up the process of building a working prototype.

ECONOMIST: Nuclear waste

Prevent harm as the best method of environmental protection and, when knowledge is limited, apply a precautionary approach.

UNESCO: Understanding sustainable development