Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week all that changed. In a paper published in the journal Nature, psychologist Martha McClintock of the University of Chicago reported what may be the best evidence yet of human pheromones. In an elegantly straightforward experiment, she was able to speed up and slow down the monthly cycles of a group of women by exposing them to a whiff of sweat from other women. The ovulatory command, she believes, was carried by pheromones...
Amid all the various kerfuffles over content and how to make money off it, the Wall Street Journal's Interactive Edition has announced that it expects to become profitable for the first time early in 1999, boosted by its 175,000 loyal subscribers, most of whom pay $49 a year, and the many advertisers who pay a $60 CPM for access to those rich, technology-oriented eyeballs. The Interactive Edition's head count is large -- around 120 employees, half of whom are working on content -- but we did the math, and the 1999 date sounds quite plausible...
...Civil Liberties Union and the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, Atlanta chapter, joined together to assault the school's decision to bring direct Protestant dogma into the public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. However, reports Doug Cumming in The New Republic, from one quarter a conspicuous silence greeted the school's action: African Americans in the predominantly black suburb of DeKalb (the fastest growing black suburb in America) did not protest the motivational assembly...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine, British Medical Journal; Pediatrics; JAMA...
Sources: Nature Medicine; Journal of the American Medical Association; Circulation...