Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Undergraduate Council is now eight years old, and it's time to address a problem that has been haunting it since its creation: How can the council act as the legitimate voice of student opinion when many students question its ability to represent them responsibly...
...shows are troubling. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow is both journalistically superfluous (the gimmick seems to be to repeat the words yesterday, today and tomorrow in each story as often as possible) and dramatically clumsy. A re-creation of the near crash of an American Airlines DC-10 in 1972 featured the original pilot and one flight attendant (now 17 years older) playing themselves, not very convincingly. Another story recounted the ordeal of a woman, nearly paralyzed with cystic fibrosis, who spent 16 years neglected in a mental institution. The piece was light on facts and heavy on sensationalism: the asylum...
...murderers move in grainy, horrific slow motion; civil rights leaders look like James Earl Jones. There was no better drama on TV last week than the joint appearance on ABC's Nightline of Dr. Elizabeth Morgan and the ex-husband she has accused of molesting their daughter. No re-creation could possibly capture that. Let's hope no journalist tries...
...representing more than 250,000 doctors and medical students, has a well-earned reputation of placing its members' economic interests ahead of, well, everything else in the world. In the 1960s, the AMA opposed the creation of Medicaid and Medicare, for fear that government help to the poor and elderly might slice into physician profits. In the early 1970s, one president of the AMA declared that "health care is a privilege and not a right...
Lest we forget, Bush and the Republican Party still refuse to accept their complicity in the creation our nation's current educational crisis. Eight years of conservative attacks on education spending have weakened America's social structure to the point where many school systems teeter on the brink of collapse...