Word: journalism
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...already written Light in August and The Sound and the Fury, but in 1948, when WILLIAM FAULKNER submitted a short story to the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's, steely editors at both publications rejected it. This week the Virginia Quarterly Review, a journal apparently with less forbidding standards, will finally unveil "Lucas Beauchamp." The Review, published by the University of Virginia, where Faulkner was a writer-in-residence, inherited the story from the Rev. Patrick Samway, a former literary editor of a Jesuit magazine. Samway got a copy of the manuscript in 1975 but rediscovered it only earlier this year...
NAME: New York Post AGE: 198 OCCUPATION: Tabloid/Clinton basher/would-be political journal BEST PUNCH: In reporting the Baldwin rebuke, referred to him as "underemployed," "portly" and "pathetic"; two days later, ran an unflattering photo of him, left, under the headline FROM HUNKY TO CHUNKY...
...guess what? The reference books, your insurance company and maybe even your dentist are wrong. Mitral-valve prolapse is neither as prevalent nor as dangerous as it has been portrayed, according to two studies in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Although the more severe forms of the condition can cause life-threatening complications, most folks who have been told they have it can probably stop worrying about their tickers...
Sources--Good News: Nutrition and Cancer (upcoming issue); Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (7/99). Bad News: JAACAP (7/99); New England Journal of Medicine (7/1/99...
According to the study, which was published in the journal Nature, women who are ovulating tend to favor manly-looking men--big jaws, prominent eyebrows, larger overall size--you know, the kind of Tarzan stuff that is supposed to scream virility. During the other three weeks of the month, however, women seem to prefer the smoother, more feminized models--sensitive-looking types who would presumably be more likely to stick with Jane and nurture Boy over the long haul...