Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being able to type also limits the random expositions I often have, such as my e-mail newsletter, creative essays and journal entries. I plan to tape many of my thoughts...
...made-for-TV movie: an inquisitive nine-year-old Colorado schoolgirl single-handedly cooks up a science-fair experiment that ends up debunking a flaky but widely practiced medical treatment. And she does such a professional job of it that the study gets published in a prestigious medical journal, landing her on just about every front page and news broadcast in the nation--where, naturally, she comes off as poised and confident...
Preposterous though it seems, that's pretty much what happened last week when Emily Rosa's experiment was written up in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Rosa's target was a practice known as therapeutic touch (TT for short), whose proponents manipulate patients' "energy fields" to make them feel better and even, say some, to cure them of various ills. Yet Emily's test shows that these energy fields can't be detected, even by trained TT practitioners. Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation, Journal editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age doesn...
Sources: American Journal of Epidemiology; Cancer; American College of Cardiology scientific sessions...
...similar deal between Harvard and White River, negotiated for $400 million, was reported by the Wall Street Journal in December...