Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unusually large lens facets in X. peckii's eyes. The compound eyes of most insects have hundreds of much smaller facets. Each focuses on a handful of photo receptors and produces only a single point in the insect's visual field. But the researchers, reporting last week in the journal Science, found that each of X. peckii's 100 eyelets is really a complete eye with its own retina, consisting of some 100 receptors, that samples a "chunk" of the visual field. These neighboring chunks, when combined in the insect's brain, produce an image with exceptionally high resolution...
...remedies treat only the symptoms and not the cause.) Then I started wondering if the folks at Gel Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company to withdraw it. Like an overeager novelist, Gel Tech had given away too much of the ending before the story appeared in print...
...your face. Why not skip the mouth and spritz the zinc directly into the old proboscis? They developed a gel that can do just that and tried it out on 104 volunteers. The results of this study, having been withdrawn once, will probably never be published in a scientific journal. Because Zicam is marketed as a homeopathic remedy, however, the Food and Drug Administration doesn't require it to undergo rigorous testing...
GOING UP IN SMOKE Add one more curse to the experience of a horrible childhood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...
...million How much the pollution controls will cost per plant, according to the Wall Street Journal...