Word: fastest
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Just last week, Murphy moved the fastest player on the team, sophomore Troy Jones, from tailback to cornerback in an effort to get even more team speed on that side of the ball...
...begs to differ: it claims it is planning only to "educate" the public about obesity.) Just three months after the introduction of Redux, doctors are writing 85,000 prescriptions a week. Says David Crossen, an analyst for Montgomery Securities in San Francisco: "What we have here is probably the fastest launch of any drug in the history of the pharmaceutical industry. Our projection is that this product will hit $1 billion in sales in five years...
That is only part of the story. The 3.8 million seniors who have celebrated their 85th birthday already constitute the fastest-growing segment of the population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2030, this group, inelegantly dubbed the old-old, will number 9 million, then will swell to 19 million in the following two decades. (Other demographers predict as many as 48 million.) Moreover, while most experts cap average life expectancy at around 85, a research team in Denmark maintains that America's current crop of newborns will live on average to 100. "It will be 80 years before...
...plagues are scary enough. But, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen of the CDC's National Center for Infectious Diseases, "the reality is, we're facing problems greater than Ebola. We have untreatable infections in our hospitals here in the U.S. right now. Food-borne illness has become one of the fastest-growing community-health problems. We know another flu pandemic is coming. To me, these things are of much more concern than something terrible from the jungle...
...popular history is possibly the best. Since The Civil War, PBS has aired such outstanding historical series as The Great Depression and The Promised Land, and The American Experience keeps turning out high-quality work after eight seasons. The History Channel, launched in January 1995, is one of the fastest-growing networks on cable. Burns himself is juggling several new projects, including a series of historical profiles (the first, on Thomas Jefferson, will air in February) and a 12 1/2-hour history of jazz, and he wants to set up workshops in his hometown of Walpole, New Hampshire, to help aspiring...