Word: digging
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Over the past year, we have run many family-related covers on such subjects as homework, Ritalin, genealogy and growing up online. Yet, as our health columnist, Christine Gorman, explains, "the news most useful to people often doesn't make big headlines." It takes an expert columnist to dig it out and turn it into practical advice. And we've recruited two of the best to take turns writing our family column...
...challenge is to select the useful from the useless, the primary sources from the endless reading lists, the major theorems from the pile of proofs. I've put it off until the last minute, and now I have to go through all of it an dig out what's worth remembering. But how can one tell what's important and what's not? Here, for example, are a few things that I discovered while reviewing my notes...
...verdict could have implications for more than just TV talk shows. Even mainstream journalists are in the business of presenting people to the world in a light they might not choose for themselves. Newspapers dig up corruption among politicians. Magazines report on celebrities' arrests and substance-abuse problems. If the media can be held responsible for humiliating someone and driving him or her to criminal actions, this verdict could open the floodgates to a lot of lawsuits against more traditional media...
...friends from home to check her collection of web sites daily, scanning for new tidbits of information? What causes my mother (a mass media misanthrope) to admit that the opening day is something she would consider taking off of work for? What drives the guys across the hall to dig around for a second copy of the Time magazine "Phantom Menace" cover issue so that they can get all the photos that were on the backs of photos they had already cut out to hang all over their walls...
Some insurers, however, had long dug in their heels over transplant therapy, and last week's announcement may make them dig deeper still. The five new studies looked at two types of breast cancer: high-risk cases, in which the disease has spread to 10 or more lymph nodes; and metastatic cases, in which it's migrated even further. Of the three studies that focused on high-risk cases--surveying a total of 1,462 breast-cancer patients--only one found a statistically significant advantage for transplant therapy. The two studies that focused on metastatic disease showed no real advantage...