Word: journalism
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What's left? Pill use dropped by nearly half in the decade since 1973, when the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 36.1% of married women between the ages of 15 and 44 preferred that method. This month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the Pill does not increase the chance of breast cancer, even in many high-risk groups. The Journal concluded that the dangers are so small that "the vast majority of users will experience only the benefits." But many women are wary. The most popular birth control is now sterilization. One-third of sexually...
...huge, tenuous clouds of gas and dust that pervade the galaxy collapses under its own weight, heats up dramatically and bursts into nuclear flame. Until now though, this has been only a model. But in a report to be published in the Oct. 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, a team of astronomers will announce that they finally have supporting evidence. Says Charles Lada, professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona: "We've detected what we believe to be the actual collapse of a cloud to form a star very much like...
Hemingway was mourned mostly as a great celebrity, his worst side, and not as a great writer, which he was. The Louisville Courier-Journal wrote in an editorial: "It is almost as though the Twentieth Century itself has come to a sudden, violent, and premature end." He was a genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin...
...easily relegated to obsolescence, and lately its defenders have been striking back at the shiny aluminum-and-plastic CDs. "Metallic, gritty, grainy and unnatural," declares Harry Pearson, editor and publisher of the Absolute Sound, a journal devoted to the glories of old- fashioned analog recording. Claims for the superiority of CDs, say LP partisans, are hype. "Many of the people who were initially impressed by compact discs have been disappointed," asserts Gene Rubin, a Los Angeles-area audio retailer. "There is no way that LPs are going to vanish...
...physician working in the Amazon rain forests of Ecuador. Snakebites account for 4% of deaths in the region, and survivors sometimes suffer tissue damage that can lead to gangrene and amputation of the affected limb. But as reported in the July 26 issue of the Lancet, a British medical journal, Guderian has successfully treated 34 Ecuadorian Indians with electric shocks over the past six years, without apparent side effects or lingering pain from bites...