Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott in Dr. Strangelove. "I would let Pyongyang know in no uncertain terms that it can either get out of the nuclear arms race or expect a rebuke similar to the one Ronald Reagan delivered to Muammar Gaddafi in 1986," he wrote two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal. Bombs away! No, he demurs in an interview. He just wants to "negotiate from strength. The U.S. shouldn't be powerless against a madman." As for Castro, Trump wrote that the Cuban leader should be tried for crimes against humanity as "the most abnormal political figure in our hemisphere." Hmmm...
...HOME BY 10 While a national debate rages over the effect of media depictions of violence on America's children, a new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that though TV has a negative influence, what more profoundly promotes violent behavior is being a victim of, or witness to, real violence at school, in the neighborhood or at home. Parents can help reduce youth violence by taking seriously their kids' complaints about persistent abuse from siblings or bullies, by knowing who their kids' friends are, and by insisting they be home on time...
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER Contrary to popular perceptions, children of single mothers are no less ready for school than children from two-parent families with the same education, according to a new study in the Journal of Family Psychology. The study reports that kids scored similarly on school-readiness tests, regardless of whether or not a father was around--so long as their moms had similar educational backgrounds. But single moms tend, on average, to complete fewer years of school...
Sources--Good News: JAMA (10/6/99); Journal of Clinical Investigation (10/99). Bad News...
...this for the structure of the universe: it does tend to repeat itself. Stars orbit the pivot point at the center of galaxies, planets in turn orbit stars, and moons in turn orbit planets. Last week astronomers writing in the journal Nature announced that this cosmic reductionism goes even further. For the first time, ground-based telescopes spotted a tiny moonlet orbiting a mere asteroid in Earth's own solar system...