Word: journals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most investors the stock market is the Dow Jones industrial average, that index of 30 stocks whose price fluctuations are a barometer of good and bad times. But complaints are common that the Dow is not really a representative market measure. In hopes of improving it, the Wall Street Journal, which selects the stocks that make up the average, has revised it for the first time in 20 years. Result: the Dow now reflects almost 25% of the market value of all 1,566 New York Stock Exchange listings, vs. 19.3% before...
...purpose for the gathering was never forgotten. The spirits of thirteen women murdered in Boston this year as well as countless other female victims moved among the audience as it stood for a moment of silence. The brief remembrance was followed by the reading of selected passages from the journal of Barbara Smith, a member of the black feminist Combahee River Collective...
...area and discomfort while urinating. It is particularly dangerous in women: during delivery it can be transmitted to the infant; it is also linked to cervical cancer. For years, doctors have searched for a cure. Now researchers at the University of Pennsylvania may have achieved that goal. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Drs. Herbert Blough and Robert Giuntoli report testing a cream containing the sugar 2-deoxy-D-glucose on 36 women with genital herpes infections. Within four days, it cleared up symptoms in 90% of the women with first infections. For women with recurring infections, improvement...
...Jerusalem's Hebrew University has produced a clue. Tallying up the sex of 3,658 babies born to women who observed the Jewish practice of niddah, which forbids sexual relations during menstruation and for seven days thereafter, Epidemiologist Susan Harlap reports a surprising result in the New England Journal of Medicine: of the 145 babies born to women who resumed intercourse two days after ovulation, 65.5% were boys; normally the figure is about 50%. One theory: the vagina and cervix at that time of month are more hospitable to sperm containing male chromosomes...
Outlines of what went wrong have been sketched before, most notably by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. in A Thousand Days. But Wyden, a former editor at the Saturday Evening Post, McCall's and Ladies' Home Journal, is not satisfied with shadows and rumors. He retraces every false step, sparing no one and no institution. The plot was conceived and crafted at the CIA largely by a cerebral chief of covert operations, Richard Bissell Jr. It had been passed on to President Kennedy by an unenthusiastic-but not disapproving-President Eisenhower. In the naive belief that U.S. involvement could...