Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Dotalk through possible topics with professors, TF's, other students and friends. Even consider keeping a thesis journal as you go. Don't scan aimlessly through old magazines and random books looking for inspiration to strike. I tried it, and it was an entertaining waste of time. You're much more likely to run across a topic while researching a paper for a class in your area of interest. Which brings up an important method for choosing a topic...
Medical research has learned an important lesson from the egg this week: Don?t place all your hunches in one basket. A study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association unpeeled a surprising new finding: Contrary to popular assumption, eating one egg a day does not significantly increase the risk of heart attack or stroke. The study essentially debunked the common train of thought that had given eggs a bum rap, explains TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Scientists have known that eating eggs increases blood cholesterol, and they have also known that people with increased blood cholesterol...
...been linked to 10 deaths and 11 cases of gastrointestinal hemorrhage during its first three months should not lead to any hasty conclusions, warns TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. So far, it is unclear how the new data on deaths and severe reactions, first reported in the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, is related to the drug, or whether other factors may be involved. Celebrex, the first of a new class of Cox-2 inhibitors to hit the U.S. market, has taken off nearly as explosively as Viagra did, with some 2.5 million Celebrex prescriptions written in its first...
Source: National Journal...
...speckled with dangerous ethnic conflicts, often with death tolls that are already tens or hundreds of times the estimated count in Kosovo. The U.S. has pursued a hodgepodge policy in the past, picking and choosing involvements based on both the humanitarian need and the geopolitical importance. The National Journal recently cast an eye back at the ethnic and civil wars that have bedeviled the past decade. Here we offer a similar look at the relationship between human cost and U.S. intervention...