title: Raising the Dead: A Doctor Encounters the Miraculous
author:  Chauncey W. Crandall 
description: Dr. Chauncey W. Crandall IV is chief of the Cardiovascular Transplant Program at the Palm Beach Cardiovascular Clinic in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Palm Beach</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Gardens</st1:placetype></st1:place> and is on staff at Good Samaritan Medical Center and Jupiter Medical Center. He has lectured nationally on topics including heart transplantation, preventive cardiology, healing, and cardiology health care of the elderly. He is the author of a new health and wellness newsletter from Newsmax.com.<br /><br />
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  # The Galactic Invaders by James R. Berry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## CHAPTER 1
  
  
  Keith Cranston's muscles tightened as a chill shuddered up his
  
  
  backbone. He forced himself to take deep, regular breaths—a precaution
  
  
  against even a hint of panic—as he searched for a scheme that would
  
  
  avoid their deaths. From behind the square pillar where he hid, he
  
  
  glanced at the figure lying four meters or so ahead of him.
  
  
  She appeared lifeless, blood now congealing on her arm, a lasegun
  
  
  only centimeters from her outstretched hand. In the swiftly descending
  
  
  darkness, Cranston's eyes picked out a slight, barely perceptible
  
  
  motion in her chest. She was still fully conscious, he knew, but her
  
  
  life depended on her charade of death. That she was alive at all was
  
  
  one of the few lucky breaks they'd had in the last minutes.
  
  
  He knew little about her: her name was Dione Clarke and sh