Word: journalism
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LOCK AND UNLOAD Thousands of children are injured or killed each year in accidental shootings, yet according to a survey in the journal Pediatrics, 28% of parents polled said they keep a firearm at home. Of those, 52% say they keep their weapons loaded or unlocked. And 74% believe their kids ages 4 to 12 can distinguish between a toy and a real gun. So if your child is going to play at a friend's home, it's wise to ask whether guns are present and unlocked...
...SOURCE: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Sources--Good News: FDA and New England Journal of Medicine (10/28/99); Archives of Internal Medicine (10/25/99). Bad News: JAMA (10/26/99); New England Journal of Medicine (10/28/99...
...Usually these types of ideas are relegated to specific facets of society: messianic religious movements or anti-technology groups. It's the end of the world, the end of Virtue, the end of the Modern Welfare State and now Teri Agins, a veteran fashion journalist at the Wall Street Journal, has written a book called The End of Fashion...
...right, kids: Go call your grandparents and tell them they are wise, witty and wonderful. You may help keep them healthy. According to a study published Monday in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, elderly people who encounter positive images and feedback about aging may actually function better than those who encounter negative stereotypes. Experiments conducted at Harvard and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston yielded results that further the theory that physical health is very much affected by a person's state of mind. In part of the study, two groups of elderly people were asked...