Word: journalism
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...continues to be a pervasive and destructive force in the school lives of our adolescent children. Some 80% of middle schoolers reported engaging in bullying behavior--ranging from excessive taunting and rumor spreading to destruction of property and physical aggression--according to a study published this month in the Journal of Early Adolescence. A high percentage of kids who bully others also report being victims themselves. Bullying is worst in the middle school years, as kids make transitions to new schools, and peaks during the first few months of school, when students vie for power among their peers...
Sources--Good News: Journal of the American Medical Association (8/18/99), Science (8/20/99); Bad News: New England Journal of Medicine (8/19/99...
...Wisconsin refuses to follow the new procedures. Officials from the state, whose donor programs are rated among the best, are worried that there will be "a mass exodus" of donated organs out of the state, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. To make matters more heated, a local hero, former Chicago Bears running back WALTER PAYTON, is waiting for a liver at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minn. Potentially, he would be helped by the new rules...
...soon as they can take a sip. The meteor plopped down in a West Texas backyard in March 1998 ?- and it?s taken more than a year for the scientists to report their findings in the journal Science. But the wait is hardly over. The bubbles of brine, trapped in crystals of irradiated halite (essentially table salt from space turned blue by radiation), are so small ?- about an eighth or a tenth the diameter of a human hair ?- that they lie beyond the capability of existing technology. Never fear; a researcher in Cambridge, England, is apparently on the verge...
...fill out the psychological equivalent of an organ donor card, donating their traumas to science so that psychologists, counselors and other head-shrinkers might use the U.S.?s biggest domestic tragedy in ages to someone?sadvantage. Almost four years later, the results are in, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association - and as one might imagine, not many got out unscarred. Out of the 182 studied, 45 percent suffered illnesses that needed psychiatric care, including chronic depression and drug and alcohol problems. One out of every three had post-traumatic stress syndrome, replete with the sense-triggered...