Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essay "The Struggle to Stay Healthy" [Aug. 9], Dr. John Knowles mentions the unmet nutritional needs of poor people. What he does not mention are the unmet nutritional needs of the majority of our population. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently printed a report of nutritional surveys revealing that almost half the patients studied suffered from a lack of the protein and calories needed to keep them in reasonably good health...
...fear of breast cancer among American women is understandably great. As the commonest cause of death among women, it kills 32,000 yearly in the U.S., and any report of increased risk raises the level of alarm. This happened last week when the New England Journal of Medicine published a report that women who take estrogen drugs after the menopause to replace natural hormones run a greater risk of breast cancer than others. The cautionary conclusion was based on a study of 1,891 Louisville women. Of those studied, 1,028 or slightly more than half, had had their ovaries...
...drug culture's quest for the perfect legal high has created a bewildering range of alternatives to marijuana-beyond the reach of the law but sometimes of dubious effectiveness or safety. Psychopharmacologist Ronald K. Siegel, 33, of U.C.L.A.'s School of Medicine reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that at least 192 herbs are commercially available and used for smoking, either already prepared as cigarettes or sold loose for "roll your own" and pipe addicts. Many are come-ons containing nothing stronger than backyard greenery, but Siegel has found 44% to contain psychoactive substances that...
...Spanish rule. Out of 354 men aboard the Maine, 260 died. Though the Spanish denied any responsibility, jingoistic U.S. newspapers charged that a Spanish mine had caused the explosion. "Destruction of the Maine was the work of an enemy," charged William Randolph Hearst's newly founded New York Journal as it offered a $50,000 reward for conviction of whoever had done the deed. Scarcely two months later, the U.S. declared war on Spain, and one of its battle cries was "Remember the Maine...
...hottest story-or the weirdest coincidence-in the history of publishing. In the staid pages of Woman 's Day last month, the wife of an Illinois minister preached passionately about how the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution would help housewives. In the Ladies' Home Journal, the wives of seven 1976 presidential contenders voted 5 to 2 for the ERA and told why. (Only Cornelia Wallace and Nancy Reagan were against it.) The ardently feminist Ms. ran a story by Actor Alan Alda explaining how the amendment could benefit men. In fact, one kind of article...