Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nine-page advertising supplement that appeared last week in the Wall Street Journal was a first for the venerable organ of capitalism. In enthusiastic but occasionally stilted prose, the Communist government of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued an open invitation to Western businesses to invest in the Soviet Union. Beginning with a Gorbachev message on perestroika, or restructuring, of the economy, the insert highlights Soviet attempts to facilitate joint ventures with the West, touts tourist attractions and hails Soviet achievements in areas like eye surgery...
...thing I cling to in here: Wow, I'm hip now, like the dead people." So writes Actress Suzanne Vale, 29, whose diary of her 30 days in a Los Angeles drug rehabilitation clinic forms the strongest part of this feisty, refreshing first novel. Suzanne's journal is counterpoint to the strident monologue of a fellow patient, Alex Daniels, also 29, who bottomed out at a Ramada Inn on a half-ounce of cocaine, six Long Island iced teas, two Smirnoffs, a hamburger, French fries and cake...
...brother Neil had received the same diagnosis. That apparently incidental detail did not surprise cancer researchers. They have long known that family members can share a genetic predisposition to the disease, but the exact mechanism was a mystery. Last week scientists in Britain and Israel reported in the journal Nature that they had discovered that there is a faulty gene that triggers a rare form of colon cancer and found its general location. The discovery, said Sir Walter Bodmer, director of research at London's Imperial Cancer Research Fund and a principal investigator, may eventually enable doctors to provide better...
...word travel, Bruce Chatwin reminded an interviewer in a recent issue of the British literary journal Granta, is related to the French travail. "It means hard work, penance and finally a journey," he explained, noting, "There was an idea, particularly in the Middle Ages, that by going on pilgrimage, as Muslim pilgrims do, you were reinstating the original condition of man. The act of walking through a wilderness was thought to bring you back...
Sometimes it is hard to tell not just the players but the game. Take the furor over Israel's Jericho II missile. Ever since the existence of the medium-range missile made headlines last month following a report in the Geneva-based journal International Defense Review, Moscow has been warning that the new weapon is an ominous escalation of the nuclear arms race. The Jericho II "is a direct challenge to the Soviet Union," claimed Radio Moscow in its Hebrew- language broadcast. Responding to reports that an advanced version of the Jericho II might have a range of 900 miles...