Word: jama
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...awareness of violence, the tide of violent behavior does not show any signs of turning.'' So concerned are physicians that this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association is devoted almost entirely to the subject of violence. Despite an overall decline in U.S. crime, the JAMA editorial notes, incidents of violent crime (homicide, rape and armed robbery)continue to increase, especially among young people. McAfee said doctors were "frustrated and tired of working to put people back together again just to see them back in the emergency room or morgue days later...
...were stunned," says Dr. Albert Stunkard, a psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading expert on what makes people put on pounds. "It runs counter to what we as a nation seem to be doing." In a sharply worded JAMA editorial, Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of New York City's St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital sounded the medical alarm, pointing out that the extra baggage is not just unsightly but unhealthy as well. Pi-Sunyer says the plumping of America will put millions of people at an increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, stroke, gout, arthritis...
...Coke can, they recognized his characteristic style. The proprietor of a Washington video store near EEOC headquarters tells the authors that Thomas was a regular in the X-rated section. A lawyer who knew him then recalls running into Thomas at the register renting The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama. Kaye Savage, a friend who once dropped by the bachelor apartment Thomas took after separating from his first wife, recalls that the walls were covered with Playboy centerfolds...
...mixture of hot, colorful spices. Director Mira Nair '79 used it in the title of her last feature film, "Mississippi Masala," because it alludes to her favorite themes of cultural fusion and displacement. And a lot of people can pronounce it. "When I made my first film, 'Jama Masjid Street Journal,'" says Nair, "people couldn't say the name and I hated that." Content to make mouths hiss and burn with "Mississippi Masala"'s pungent melange of African, Indian, and American identities, she prefers to leave tongues untwisted...
...error was overlooked. "No one ever sayspeer review reflects pure accuracy," said Dr.George D. Lundberg, editor of JAMA...