Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know just how vital that recommendation was. According to a study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, only 24% of American infants sleep on their stomachs, down from 70% in 1992. And the SIDS rate, which hadn't budged in more than a decade, has plummeted from about 5,000 deaths a year to fewer than...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine; Archives of Internal Medicine; FDA; J.A.M.A...
...suspect that they continued to avert their eyes when they passed the American Hereford Association building. Nobody thought the campaign had done any lasting damage; it's not easy, after all, to hurt the feelings of a cow. Then last week I read in the Wall Street Journal that the boneless sirloin known for decades as the Kansas City strip, a cut of meat invented in the Heart of America, is now on most steak-house menus as the New York strip--although in Kansas City outraged customers forced Ruth's Chris Steak House to correct the misnomer. In other...
Then came the bombshell from the Journal. One quote was particularly galling: a spokesman for the parent company of one steak-house chain--a company based in Wichita--said that his company's restaurants call a Kansas City strip a New York strip because "it's a more cosmopolitan name." Condescended to by someone from Wichita! That's what comes from turning against your own cattle. As we used to say in Kansas City--this was before they asked us to cut down on agricultural images--sooner or later the chickens all come home to roost...
Sources: New England Journal of Medicine (1, 3); Lancet; Journal of the American Medical Association