Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each edition of Blueprint--billed as a "snazzy policy journal and substantive magazine" hybrid--will focus on one key issue, such as the economy...
...study, published in the medical journal Circulation, was started by Dr. Walter C. Willett, Stare professor of epidemiology and nutrition, and lasted from 1986 until 1994. More than 40,000 male volunteers from the healthcare industry participated in the study...
...revolutionize the way Americans lose weight. Then last summer doctors noticed an alarming number of heart-valve problems in their patients who took Redux or its chemical cousin fenfluramine, prompting the recall of both drugs. Now comes word, from three studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that the heart problems may not be as serious as was first feared--at least for patients who took the pills for less than three months...
...Lindbergh possessed a complex character that was part genius mechanic and part mystic. All his life he demonstrated a surprising, inner-directed capacity for intellectual growth. In the last decades of his life, regretting the effects of the worldwide aviation he had pioneered ("Every year," he wrote in his journal, "transport planes seem to get more like subway trains"), he campaigned as an environmentalist, circling the world ceaselessly, traveling light, seeking out primitive peoples in an exercise of atavistic communion...
...ever wondered why a broker pitched one mutual fund over another, you're not alone. The SEC, according to the Wall Street Journal, is looking into instances of fund companies paying brokerages to push their products with extra zeal. The agency is also worried that funds might be overspending on trades to reward brokerages for fund sales. You could get hit with lower returns and higher fees, so ask funds about "exclusivity agreements...