Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Virginia at Charlottesville, who has done several studies on lying in everyday life, notes that no one is totally honest all the time. "The tendency to tell lies," as Jean Piaget wrote in 1932, "is a natural tendency, spontaneous and universal." One of DePaulo's studies, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, showed that people told at least one lie a day, and that more socially adept folks stretched the truth more often than the less sophisticated. There's a reason the devil is always depicted as a smooth-tongued fellow. Facility breeds falsity...
...much for crime. How about punishment? "Perhaps the evidence in the end will warrant some lesser sanction than impeachment," wrote the Wall Street Journal. "But to shrink now from truth and judgment in the name of 'healing' is to make us all complicit with Mr. Clinton's behavior." Newsday opined: "The national jury is still out on whether he can be trusted to lead the country...
...Beta blockers, those pills long used to reduce the heart's work load, should be used by virtually every heart attack survivor, according to a study to be published in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine. Doctors have long worried that the pills could actually cause harm in people who have other conditions such as diabetes or asthma. But a new survey of 201,752 Medicare patients finds that the benefits far outweigh the hazards...
...rights remedy, and Bond, an elitist, has never seemed comfortable with any plan to empower the masses of black people. Despite what he believes, white racism is not black America's most important challenge. Black elitism and the lack of self-empowerment are. TONY BROWN, Host Tony Brown's Journal, PBS New York City...
Sources: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Journal of the American Medical Association; Synapse; Pediatrics