Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Money Matters by Donald Moffitt. Even some six-digit corporate executives have no idea how they will bankroll their retirement, so Moffitt has collected his Wall Street Journal columns on personal finance into a $4.95 paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only...
...changes that have resulted from the energy windfall are tremendous. Culture has swept the province like a whirlwind. A critic for the Edmonton Journal figured that in twelve months he covered 136 first nights of theater, opera and symphony. Calgary, once just a prairie cow town that was famous for its Calgary Redeye (beer and tomato juice), has become a cosmopolitan community of 550,000. Nearly 60% of the people are not of English-speaking origin, and despite the presence of some 60,000 Americans in the area, the largest ethnic group is German. This is Canada's fastest...
...Medical Center found that infections of the amniotic fluid cushioning the fetus, and the subsequent death of the baby, were more frequent among women who had intercourse in the month before delivery than in those who abstained. Also, according to his report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, certain other problems, including respiratory distress and jaundice, were twice as common in infants whose mothers had been sexually active in their last month...
...their research into the structure of transfer RNA, an intermediate component of biosynthesis--the DNA synthesis of proteins in the cell. They have been working together for two years and on this particular project for nine months. Their work will appear in the upcoming issue of the British journal. Nature...
...ability to cope with stress may improve one's health more than giving up cigarettes and alcohol or losing weight, according to an article published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Harvard Psychology professor...