Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even worse than being ignored, however, was being disbelieved. Because they had destroyed the embryo after only two cell divisions (well before the critical 16-cell stage), because they hadn't videotaped their work and, most of all, because they hadn't published it in a peer-reviewed journal, the rest of the scientific community didn't feel obliged to take the Korean claims seriously. Even RICHARD SEED, the unemployed Chicago physicist who has taken it on himself to give cloning a bad name, was taking potshots. "I am supportive of the work," he told TIME...
Sources: J.A.M.A., Journal of General Internal Medicine, Archives of Otolaryngology--Head & Neck Surgery, Journal of the National Cancer Institute
...BORDEAUX RESIDENCE, FRANCE Has Rem Koolhaas reinvented the home? One architectural journal went so far as to call this "the best house in the world, ever." Yikes! Built for a wealthy client in a wheelchair who asked that it be made as complex as possible, the house has three stories, in each of which is a 10-ft. by 10-ft. hole. The hole is filled only when the client's 10-ft. by 10-ft. elevator, which is also his office, is in that space. Get it? Rather than making allowances for its disabled owner, each floor is really...
Sources: Food and Drug Administration; Pediatrics; Journal of the American Medical Association; New England Journal of Medicine
Busy, literate people have long employed audio books to get the most out of their drive time. In January they can go digital, searching an online archive (at audible.com of more than 16,000 hours of audio books, radio broadcasts, lectures and daily summaries of the Wall Street Journal, then downloading selections to the MobilePlayer-PLUS from Audible in Wayne, N.J. The $300 pocket-size device comes with headphones and holds eight hours of content...