Word: journalism
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...Internet at $8.50 a month made the idea of owning a $1,250, 32-volume set of books seem less appealing. Kids, everyone knew, were just as happy to get their information online or from a CD-ROM. In fact, they preferred it. The 170-year-old Journal of Commerce, which made most of its money from publishing shipping logs every week, has been forced to set sail on a new digital ocean in order to survive. "The future is electronic," says publisher Willy Morgan, who shed 65 staff members and hurriedly set up a website last year when...
What's the best way for a woman to give birth? You'd think after millions of years of practice, we'd have the answer nailed by now. But as a study in last week's New England Journal of Medicine makes clear, there's still a lot about birthing babies that even obstetricians don't know. Take something as simple as walking during the early stages of labor, which was the focus of last week's report. Many women find that it helps them to relax, to work through their contractions before the often tough job ahead. In addition...
NAMED. STEPHEN G. SMITH, 49, editor of National Journal; as editor of U.S. News & World Report; in Washington. Smith replaces James Fallows, who held the job for 22 months...
Sources: World AIDS Conference (1 and 2); Merck; New England Journal of Medicine
...where's the fire? According to archaeologists writing in the journal Science Friday, it's not in the caves of Zhoudoudian, China. What was previously thought to be a 500,000-year-old fireplace there turns out to lack the tell-tale traces of wood ash. That leaves us with no evidence that our distant ancestor Homo Erectus had any idea how to set the world alight. Which is a problem, because Homo Erectus is supposed to have been busy colonizing the coldest climes of Asia back then. How on earth did he do it without a way to keep...