Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paid full ticket price to watch the film's 2-min. trailer, slept through the 3-hr. Meet Joe Black, then watched the trailer again. Internet rogues have mined many details from the script, invented the rest and splashed it on their websites. Every magazine but the New England Journal of Medicine has already put the movie on its cover. At midnight on May 3, kids will drag their parents, or vice versa, to Toys "R" Us and fill their shopping carts with Lucasian action figures. Want-see? Just try keeping them away...
...heart). If you get it often, it's called gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD. Along with an estimated 15 million Americans, that's what I've had for nearly 30 years. No big deal, though--or so I thought until I read a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple of weeks ago. Turns out that this repeated acid bath can alter esophageal cells, creating a condition known as Barrett's esophagus. Once that happens, the cells can become precancerous, then malignant. For someone like me, with almost daily heartburn, the overall risk of esophageal cancer...
...found myself last week in the examining room of Dr. Robert Meirowitz. Like many of his fellow gastroenterologists, Meirowitz has seen an upswing in patients since the journal article came out. Fortunately, he explains, GERD is usually not serious. Only about 5% of sufferers get Barrett's esophagus, and only 5% of those go on to develop cancer. However, as Dr. Joel Richter, head of gastroenterology at the Cleveland Clinic, points out, "The only way to be sure you don't have these conditions is to have an endoscopy...
...scientific debate over what causes homosexuality -- nature, nurture or a mixture of both -- just got even more complicated. Reflecting the complexity that is seeping into the field of genetics in general, a new study published in the journal Science failed to replicate the findings of widely publicized previous research that had linked homosexuality to a possible gene or set of genes. "Evidently, the idea of linking genes to behavior is not going to be as simple or easy as generally supposed," says TIME science correspondent Dick Thompson...
...were written by record company PR departments. When Might folded after 16 issues Eggers was courted by mainstream magazines and spent a year as editor-at-large at Esquire. Put off by the industry's obsession with celebrity and circulation, Eggers left Esquire to start McSweeney's, a quarterly journal stocked with quirky pieces that are impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which cases are retold in play-by-play with (basketball) court diagrams, and "Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?" which chronicles a Neanderthal board meeting. Instead of advertisements, McSweeney's offers its tongue...