Word: journalistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spite of its flaws, the American judicial system remains a truly democratic institution, touching the lives of citizens in every walk of life-including journalists. For Reporter-Researcher Alain Sanders, who has a law degree from Columbia University Law School, the call to jury duty came at a particularly inopportune, if apt, moment. Sanders was called by both the New York State and federal courts while in the midst of checking this week's cover story on the U.S. jury system. A former New York City attorney, Sanders claimed an exemption on the grounds that he was actively engaged...
...week that the use of toxins is a violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol on chemical and biological weapons and that their production is prohibited by the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. Soviet technical journals, however, openly discuss methods for mass-producing mycotoxins. In a new book called Yellow Rain, Journalist Sterling Seagrave cites evidence that the Soviets first used T2 during the Yemen civil war in the early 1960s. Military officials in Egypt, which was then a Soviet client, confirm that biochemical warfare equipment was deployed during that conflict. Seagrave also says that a biochemical weapons depot stocked with...
...cost: $45 million. As soon as the IMF team left town, the colón dropped again. In May he sold the country's $41 million in gold reserves stored at Fort Knox to pay short-term debts, further demonstrating that his government was, as a local journalist puts it, "like a junkie raiding Grandma's silver cabinet for one more fix." Today Costa Rica has no foreign exchange left...
...will be "a coming-of-age book set in a very southern college town" and will concern "a crime taking place [that forces] people to make decisions and moral judgements." That may sound like a strange combination, but there's method to Oney's seeming madness. Journalistically speaking, he came of age in his college town, Athens, Ga., where he edited the student magazine and wrote for the daily newspaper, the "Red and Black." And his most recent experiences in journalism have concerned the most sensational mass murder spree since Lizzie Borden took up her axe, the Atlanta child murders...
...prospect of being a journalist first excited Oney in the early 1970's, when he read the writings of men like Tom Wolfe. Wolfe argued that in contemporary journalism, one could write on current events with the novelist's attention to craft. The discovery that journalism need not be dry "was kind of a mind-blower for me," Oney recalls. Besides, "I didn't want to be an English teacher--which is about the only other option for an English major unless you work for Bell Telephone or something...