Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visit was part of a two-week Newstour across China, from westernmost Kashgar to Beijing, by Time Warner executives, board members and journalists. We had to remember that this fledgling show of democracy is permitted only at the village level and is, so far, more symbolic than substantive. Government and party officials wearing Motorola beepers wandered the fringe of the crowd, much like the ward leaders at the elections in Louisiana I covered as a cub reporter...
...thoughts in Kiss of God: The Wisdom of a Silent Child by tapping on a primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant; by age 9, he was testing at a 12th-grade reading level. Particularly partial to Tolstoy, Ball offers musings that are often similarly elliptical: "I hope to gather thinkers/ To give them my thoughts about Love/ Love to clean their ideas/ That cleaning might loosen the love in their hearts...
...evidence that antiseizure drugs provide the best relief for neuropathic pain, associated with nerve problems. The newest and most successful has been gabapentin, which seems to relieve a wide range of nerve pain, including that often accompanying cancer and AIDS. Better yet, this class of drugs has a low level of side effects. Drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and unsteadiness, if they do occur, can usually be alleviated by adjusting the dosages of the drug, while more severe side effects, such as liver toxicity, blood disorders and disturbed vision, are relatively rare...
...rise of the Times, its continued high quality and its independence make a remarkable story, especially in an era of corporate publishing, declining news readership and profit-driven efforts to dumb down coverage to the level of a TV-numbed audience. That a single family has managed this feat over such a long period of time is even more remarkable. That this particular family, at least as described in The Trust (Little, Brown; 870 pages; $29.95), by Susan Tifft and Alex Jones, managed to make and keep the Times great is astounding. In almost voyeuristic detail, the ruling Times family...
...have definitely picked it up a notch over the past week and we are hoping to maintain this level or surpassed it as the season progresses," Gunther said. "I am confident that we will fare well against the Big Red this weekend and I'm looking for another shutout...