Word: experts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone is thrilled with the Army's increasing involvement. "There are legitimate worries about military intervention in domestic affairs," says Ralph Lewis, disaster-response expert at Florida International University. At one shelter in predominantly black Richmond Heights, the soldiers seemed more interested in raising the flag while exhausted Red Cross volunteers struggled to feed 6,000 people a day. "I'm trying to use the military as much, but they like to do things their own way," sighed music teacher Thomas Moore, 29, the Red Cross volunteer in charge of the shelter. "It's true the Red Cross is disorganized...
...good health. But in this age of super-splintered medicine, figuring out which doctor to see has become something of a nightmare. Is there a fire in your midsection? It could be indigestion, gallstones, an exotic infection, stress, maybe even cancer. Should you consult a gastroenterologist, a tropical-disease expert, a psychiatrist or an oncologist? Once a patient climbs onto the specialist merry-go-round, it can be hard to get off. The medical bills mount, and the frustration soars...
...determined that he wasn't. Another investigator wanted to study DNA from the autopsy remains of Abraham Lincoln to find out whether he had Marfan syndrome, an inherited disease that causes victims to be taller than average and have long arms, fingers and toes. After a lengthy debate, an expert panel concluded that the study should be postponed until researchers know more about the gene that causes the syndrome...
...decades, Africa could count on the cold war as an economic resource. The U.S. and the former Soviet Union muscled each other through African proxies, pouring in money to prop up pro-Western or pro-Communist surrogates. Now the big powers' priorities have gone elsewhere. Russia's most prominent expert on African economies, Sergei Shatalov, devotes his attention to his own country's debt problems. Europe's available investment capital is being diverted to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states...
...family values have to do with children, with how to make them happy and give them safe, decent lives. The real debate Americans should be having, says social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, concerns "what all adults would give up to secure a childhood of innocence and freedom." Every expert and practically every citizen agree that children are better off being raised in a family with two parents. For various reasons, that is less and less the model of American child rearing...