Word: journals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Philadelphia. Ahead lay the creation of the Bill of Rights. Ahead lay the Civil War, which led to the 13th Amendment, finally abolishing slavery. And the 19th Amendment declaring that women have the right to vote. But on this 17th day of September 1787, Washington wrote in his journal: "The business being closed, the members adjourned to the City Tavern, dined together and took a cordial leave of each other; after which I returned to my lodgings . . . and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed...
...Televangelist Pat Robertson is in the early stages of a case brought against Representative Andrew Jacobs Jr. and former Representative Paul McCloskey Jr., who accused Robertson of evading combat during the Korean War by using the influence of his father, the late U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson. The Milwaukee Journal is being sued by a former Democratic state representative, the Chicago Sun-Times by a former president of the city council, and WCCO-TV, the Minneapolis affiliate of CBS, by a county attorney...
Doctors have long suspected that lowering a patient's cholesterol level after bypass surgery would slow the growth of new blockages in the coronary vessels. ( But the proper treatment has proved elusive. Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. David Blankenhorn of the University of Southern California reported that patients who were treated with a combination of the anticholesterol drug colestipol and the vitamin niacin showed a marked improvement over those who had maintained a low-fat diet alone...
...they are unsure whether EBV causes fatigue syndrome or whether its presence merely reflects an immune system so weakened by another organism that it no longer keeps the virus in check. Two recent reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association failed to link EBV to fatigue syndrome. Harvard Researcher Anthony Komaroff, an author of one study, suspects that another virus, perhaps an "EBV mutant," will eventually prove to be the cause...
...child's reaction to the stranger than on its attitude toward the returning mother. Some initial results were unsettling. Day-care children were more likely to remain anxious even after the parent had come back. Some actively avoided their mother. Last September in a report published in the journal Zero to Three, Belsky reversed his earlier position. He concluded that babies who spend more than 20 hours a week in nonmaternal care during the first year of life risk having an "insecure attachment" to their mothers. He pointed to evidence that such children are more likely to become uncooperative...