Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...project, summed up in a scholarly paper that has been submitted to the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, is considered the most comprehensive of its kind. The Minnesota researchers report the results of six-day tests of their subjects, including 44 pairs of identical twins who were brought up apart. Well-being, alienation, aggression and the shunning of risk or danger were found to owe as much or more to nature as to nurture. Of eleven key traits or clusters of traits analyzed in the study, researchers estimated that a high of 61% of what they call "social potency...
...study, published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found that patients appear to prefer doctors who dress conservatively...
...Editor Michael Kinsley wrote, "The only irritating aspect of the otherwise delightful collapse of the Reagan Administration is the widespread insistence that we must all be poker-faced about it . . . C'mon, everybody, admit it. We're high." A few days later Kinsley turned up in the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page primly savages Reagan's critics and sometimes finds Reagan insufficiently a Reaganaut. Kinsley noted gleefully that the Journal now "has been oddly subdued...
...being heralded as the long-sought, safe, morning-after pill. But there is a difference: it is really a month-after pill. A team of doctors from the Hopital de Bicetre near Paris reported in last week's New England Journal of Medicine that a substance known as RU 486, taken within ten days after a missed period, effectively terminates pregnancies without causing any major side effects...
...workshop (and kicked the old gentleman upstairs to his present role as the Colonel Sanders of the Yuletide franchise). Big business, after all, is not kid stuff; the other way round is more like it. In the U.S. last Christmas, according to the ledgers of the Wall Street Journal, "the average household bought 30 gifts and spent $315." In 1985 $12 billion worth of toys were sold at retail, 60% of them in the three months before Dec. 25. That was a sparkling $1 billion more than the previous year. This year it is expected to be 5% higher...