Word: journalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
More than 200 journalists have studied at Harvard since the fellowship program was established by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of Luciun Nieman, the founder and publisher of The Milwaukee Journal...
...with sponsors as diverse as the Cleveland Clinic and the Maine Medical Assessment Foundation. High on the list of treatments to be studied are those for cataracts, diabetes and broken hips (the question: When is replacing the hip the best thing to do?). A report in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that one type of prostate surgery works better than an increasingly popular alternative operation. The American Urological Association is planning an intensive comparative study of the long-term prospects of patients who undergo one of the two procedures...
...Albert Gore, Dean variously referred to Mitchell as her father or stepfather after he began living with her widowed mother Mary Gore Dean. At HUD, Deborah Dean served as a sort of gatekeeper, controlling access to Pierce and enjoying wide powers to block projects. She told the Wall Street Journal that the rent-subsidies program was "set up and designed to be a political program ((and)) we ran it in a political manner." At a congressional hearing last week, she invoked her constitutional right against self-incrimination...
...treatment centers also try to elicit a sense of empathy. At Giddings, a maximum-security facility for juveniles in Texas, murderers keep a daily journal of their feelings and act out their crime, taking the roles of both their victim and surviving family members. Sexual offenders meet with groups of victims every few months. At its prisons and work camps, the California Youth Authority runs voluntary classes in which inmates study property crimes, domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, homicide and victims' rights. Some offenders do eventually express remorse. Says one Giddings boy, a middle- class 15-year-old from...
...study, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, followed 133 men without AIDS antibodies who continued to engage in high-risk sexual activity. A team led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that of 31 who carried the AIDS virus, 27 had not produced antibodies up to three years after the virus was detected. While the study raises questions about the effectiveness of current screening tests, which zero in on AIDS antibodies and not the virus itself, there is a bright side: some infected people may remain healthy for longer than was previously...