Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prepared for the National Research Council found that numerous studies "persuasively link" passive smoking to lung cancer in non-smoking spouses of smokers. Chronic exposure to tobacco smoke in the workplace is also deleterious to the health of non-smokers, according to a 1980 study in the New England Journal of Medicine. Passive tobacco smoke is America's most dangerous airborne carcinogen and is estimated to be two orders of magnitude more harmful than carcinogens currently regulated as hazardous air pollutants under the Federal Clean...
Norris H. Chase '90 decided during Freshman Week to revive Diaspora Magazine, a Black literary journal which ceased publishing four years ago. The result will be a new 50-page publication, replete with essays, poetry, short stories and commentary...
...technique, reported in last week's issue of the journal Science, is significant not so much as a demonstration of virtuoso genetic engineering, but because it will provide scientists with a valuable research tool for studying how genes go about their business. By fusing the firefly gene to the genetic material of other plants and animals, biologists gain a visual cue $ that will help them understand in detail how genes -- strands of DNA whose structure acts as a sort of coded instruction manual -- tell different cells what their duties are within an organism. Armed with such specific knowledge, researchers...
British officials were furious at the faintheartedness on the Continent but publicly confined themselves to polite expressions of disappointment. Other reactions were more forceful. London's Daily Mail called the Europeans "jellyfish," while in the U.S. the Wall Street Journal titled its editorial on the subject "The Euro-Cowards." Snapped one disgusted senior Thatcher aide: "Either you're in the business of antiterrorism...
...tears to see so many people who have so many stories that will never be told, so many songs that will never be sung, so much beauty that will never be shared," he said. "That's a cost that will never be found in The Wall Street Journal, but ultimately may be the greatest loss...