Word: papered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2010-2019
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...printed shoe fell on Wednesday, when the New York Times partially lifted the veil on its plan to charge for access to its website. Speculation has been rife in media circles on how the nation's most influential and successful paper would go about touching what some consider to be the third rail of Web content. The Times' answer? Very gingerly. In effect, the paper seems to be asking its readers, Don't you really actually want...
...more of a metered system? Can you pay not to get Maureen Dowd? "This announcement allows us to begin the thought process that's going to answer so many of the questions that we all care about," company chairman and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. deflectingly told his own paper. "We can't get this halfway right or three-quarters of the way right. We have to get this really, really right...
...appeal of the Times' approach is that while it doesn't cut the paper off completely to all those ad-revenue-generating eyeballs, it also doesn't continue to give away the store for free. The downside is that it's neither fish nor fowl: people who might pay for the paper are still going to try to get it for free if there's a way to do so. At the same time, the pay plan will limit the website's traffic - at 17 million monthly readers, it's the biggest of the newspaper websites - and therefore...
Doctors who see patients complaining of headaches should screen them for depression as well, says Dr. Robert Marlow, a family-medicine physician in Scottsdale, Ariz., who recently published a paper on the issue in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Of course, "just because somebody has migraines doesn't mean they are depressed," Marlow notes. But in either case, you're better off getting diagnosed and treated rather than just suffering through the pain...
...understanding of how levamisole affects the body, however, may better explain its explosive popularity. A 1998 paper found that levamisole relieved symptoms of heroin withdrawal in rats and also raised levels of various brain chemicals related to drug highs. "It may increase dopamine and by so doing may enhance cocaine effects," speculates Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (See 2009's best pictures...