Word: outness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DISCORDANT DIAGNOSIS It's scary enough when a biopsy reveals cancer. Now a study concludes that up to 2% of biopsy reports are flat-out wrong. The pathologist may say there's cancer when the cells are perfectly normal. Worse, the wrong cancer may be diagnosed, leading to inappropriate care...
The mere words socialism and communism," wrote George Orwell 62 years ago, "draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Today it is the bogeymen of globalization and world trade that bring out their...
But the demonstrators of yesteryear opposed military intervention in places like Vietnam, El Salvador and Nicaragua on the grounds that the real problem in these places was not communism but poverty. And the solution was not war but economic assistance. As Senator Christopher Dodd said in a nationally televised 1983...
Who will take the American musical into the new millennium? Two very different camps are vying to lay out the future path for this very 20th century art form. On one side are the rockers, who want to give the musical a fresh beat and a more contemporary, populist appeal...
Still, Hooper's efforts may not be in vain. We know that HIV moved from chimps to people. Figuring out precisely how could help researchers create effective treatments for aids--and maybe, someday, a vaccine.