Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Grief-stricken, Simenon felt an understandable need to make sense out of Marie-Jo's suicide. He began a journal, addressed to his sons and particularly to his late daughter. His first entry assures her: "This book will be not mine but yours." Not true. As it took voluminous shape day after day, Intimate Memoirs be came exclusively Simenon's, his rambling attempt to prove, as he assures the dead Marie-Jo, that "I have nothing to apologize...
Senior Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Calvin, who has long specialized in reporting for TIME on behavior, amassed a collection of complaints by patients about pain and its treatment. "About the time the pile got to be a foot high," she recalls, "I came across an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine called 'The Quality of Mercy,' which showed growing medical concern about this problem." At that point she suggested that TIME do a major story on pain...
...trial of the new vaccine, reported in the New England Journal of Medi cine, involved 914 healthy youngsters ranging in age from one to 14,468 were injected with the vaccine, while the rest received a placebo. Neither the researchers nor the children's families knew which drug was given. Nine months later, 39 of the youngsters who had received dummy shots had developed chickenpox. But no vaccinated child caught the disease. A few children getting the vaccine had pain, swelling and redness at the injection site and chickenpox-like rashes, but there were no long-lasting or serious...
...company has somewhere near two-and-a-quarter billion dollars to handle. The early workers come in to work around 8 a.m. to feel out what has been brewing in the London markets and what they mean for Harvard's money. Later, with newsletters and The Wall Street Journal read, the full investment staff--traders, portfolio managers, fixed-income managers and researchers--meet at 9:30 for a half-hour of quick reports...
Joel I. Goodfader resuscitated the Harvard International Review, a monthly journal on international politics. As one of the editors, he lined up major figures to contribute to the review, including Atlanta Mayer Andrew. Young, Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, and Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. Staff members said he was an inspiration...